*mulls*
Every once in a while (and by that, I mean, on a fairly regular basis), I stumble across Yet Another Rant About Welfare by people who know so painfully little about it that I feel a vague ache in my chest that I've come to realize is actually the seeds of homicidal rage. The political blogs that do it I pretty much blow off--I know they're making shit up for political gain.
They know they're making shit up for political gain. So whatever.
The other ones? I can still blow it off, but I am in a transitional computer place in my life.
It's just--it's so hard for people who haven't worked the cases or been the recipients to
get how hideously complex it can be because it looks easy from the outside. It
does, because federal law requires timelines on how long you have to approve/deny a case, so when everything is running smoothly, it
does look like it's walk-in, walk-out, anyone can do it. I didn't work every kind of case imaginable when I was a caseworker, but I saw, caseread, or heard about pretty much all of them. It's hard, from both sides. Period.
And then there's the rants about those that don't deserve it etc.
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