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I have to say that it wasn't long ago that I would have been on the other side. I would have said NO without even a hesitation.

I was raised that you were responsible for yourself. That if you want something you do what needs to be done to obtain it, or you slack off and say "I don't want it that much".

Growing up an only child who was raised by a grandmother in a wheelchair can really give you a different perspective on absolutely everything. And don't get me wrong, many a time I had the thought, or should I say momentary desire to be among what I considered the majority of the population. Skating through life in blissful ignorance....sigh, it seems like life would have been so much easier.

However my fate, was to be where I was. And being of the intellectual sort from a very early age (birth)I wouldn't have chosen a different path to have before me. My grandmother was born with Polio. Does anyone even remember Polio? Anyway, although it wasn't till after I was born, eventually she was no longer able to get by in any way without her wheelchair. Which I only have memories of her in. So tasks such as weekly grocery shopping, laundry, day to day household upkeep and even writing checks were things that I honestly don't recall learning how to do. I just did.

We survived on $500.00 a month that I have no idea where it came from, although of course, now as an adult I could speculate on that more, it didn't matter then, all that mattered was that was what we had. I was born in the 1970's by the Way. I know a few decades earlier, that $500.00 may have been considered quite comfortable.

And it never, honestly never occurred to me that I would change things. Sure I wanted many a things that I couldn't have, but such is life. There were embarrassments that come with poverty that many people can relate to. Improper clothing, colder homes, emptier bellies. And seeing those who had no clue that such things even existed... lucky saps (not).

All this said, I grew up proud of who I was and what I had. And always intended to continue on that path. Working for what you needed and then working harder still for what you wanted. WHY THEN WOULD I POSSIBLY THINK THAT ANYONE SHOULD GET ASSISTANCE?
Isn't that the problem already, there's too much assistance and we're producing a lazy, non-working and perfectly content society?

Now, while I have to say that part of me will never sway on that mentality. There is the new, enlightened, if now equally discouraged

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