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A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
&gt;Most prefer work and salary though, if it is available.

What a fucking shock. God I want to beam this fact into the brains of all the Republicans I know. I *cannot* undo the "welfare lazy ass" stereotype, it is so ingrained into these people. Now a sequel with "no one wants to work". The reasons for the labor issues in the US right now are complex (over a million fucking *died*, millions retired before they planned to because covid was a clusterfuck, millions moved up to fill those positions, the gig economy expanded, people started more niche businesses, resistance to remote work, and a growing opposition to workplace abuses), but most definitely not because no one wants to. 

People are frustrating. I ask them, who do you personally know who is actually abusing government assistance? And it's like 2 people throughout the span of their lives. I say, how many people do you know just want to make an honest living? Doesn't help. They just believe ... its those (insert minority here). That's really the root of it.
gpt
&gt; People are frustrating. I ask them, who do you personally know who is actually abusing government assistance?

Maybe you just aren't asking the right people? I have had a lot of experience through my profession of people trying to scam the system to get assistance they didn't need. People asking for disability forms to be filled out stating they are permanently disabled because of back pain when they are walking into the office with no assistance whatsoever. Women coming in for pregnancy tests and WIC forms telling me that they had to get pregnant because they wanted a bigger apartment and the government wouldn't give them a bigger one unless they had another child. Asking for prescriptions for diabetes fingerstick tabs because, as I later learned from a colleague, there is a huge black market for them and they get medicaid to pay for it and then sell them for cash. Asking me to fill out a form stating they need home care so their family member can get hired as the home health aid and get paid for it. This was a common occurrence that we dealt with regularly in a previous job. And the unfortunate thing is that while I wouldn't fill out these forms, there are unscrupulous providers who only care about making the patient happy so they get repeat visits and good hcahps scores who would fill them out when those with professional ethics refused. So just because you don't see it or because these types of abuses are hidden from the statistics due to patient confidentiality doesn't mean they don't exist.