If you let someone live in your house for free, do you have to evict them to get them to leave?
OK so I let a "friend" move in my house and the verbal agreement was that they could stay for 6 months without paying rent, I would pay all utlities and for his food. In return, he is responsible for cleaning, laundry, etc. After about 3 months, It's not working out... I had to hire a maid to do the cleaning, he complains constantly about various things... doesn't like the food I buy him... I leave dishes in the sink (this is still my house right?). Bottom line, I am over it... I no longer consider him to be a friend and having him living in my house is making me uncomfortable. I want to ask him to leave (give him like 30 days to find other accomodations). Before I ask him to leave, I am wondering does he have any right to refuse to leave? Someone told me that because I let him live here for X nbr of days that I now have to go through the eviction process. Is there any truth to that? I live in the state of Arkansas in case that is important. Thanks R
If you receive public assistance, how much do you work?
If you receive ANY form of public assistance(WIC, welfare, medicaid, low income housing, etc.), how much do you work? My assumption would be that if you get any of the above assistance, you would work 40+ hours a week, but I'm not sure that's true.
Do you really believe people "live" off of welfare?
I was bored and decided to look up any reference to people "living off of welfare". I was shocked to find all these rants about how much people hate families that live off of welfare and how they keep popping out kids and won't work and are lazy. I can't believe how ignorant people are on the subject. I don't know the laws for every state, but I do know that you cannot collect (cash assistance or welfare) for your entire life. In Pennsylvania you can collect cash assistance for 5 years in your entire lifetime. A few other states I looked up only allowed you to collect it for 3 years or less in a lifetiime. So how is it that people believe these families are living off welfare? That's impossible. And they also require that you go for job assistance if you need it and have a job within a few months. There is no one that "lives off welfare" What do you think of this? And please don't refer to the poor souls getting food stamps. Most people do work their butts off and still can't pay their bills let alone buy food. I'm only referring to "cash assistance".
Why do people think it's ok to live off of welfare?
Why do people think it's ok to have the government support them? I'm tired of my tax Dollars being used to help out people who Abuse the system, I know there are people who truly need help and need food stamps and assistance to get on their feet but I'm talking about the people who live on it, don't work or even try to find a job, continue to have more kids and not have to be finically responsible it drives me nuts and tax time comes around and it's like they won the lottery with this earned income credit crap how is this fair to the hard working people we have kids to but we actually have to work our butt off to support the lazy selfish moochers, anyone else feel like this?!
Why do people beg for money? Cant you work?
AMEN to that! I agree 100%. It's lazy people who know how to "work the system" A few years ago, we made some bad choices with our money that left us near broke. We did not ask people for money, nor did we ask our state for help. We busted our buts, cut back on luxury items, and sacraficed alot to get back to where we are today. If we want something, we save. No charge cards at all. While we are not wealthy, we do ok, and are proud that we own all that we have, no help from anyone. The government really needs to re-evaluate how the "system" is run, and get the young able to work off their a**es.
How could 1950s families afford to have only a working father, but a stay-at-home mother?
By living cheaply and having different expectations from life.It was common for such families to own only one car, saving on insurance, gas, and maintenance. It was common to park that car on a carport or open drive, not in a garage. There was no central air conditioning, pool pump, Internet, or cable bill to pay. The newspaper was cheap—subsidized by advertising—and TV was free, if you owned a set—which most families didn’t until the late 1960s. With a full-time mom at home, there were no day care costs, no dishwasher, and often no clothes dryer, even in homes that had a washer.There was no eating out. That was something the adults might do once or twice a year. It was a big deal. Even when I was a kid, we only ate out rarely, usually after a family outing, perhaps a dozen times a year. When I was in kindergarten, the big McDonald’s promotional slogan—aimed at stay-at-home moms—was “You deserve a break today.” It was apt and effective. It wasn’t until the disco era that people started viewing fast food as a normal part of their diet, or restaurants as a normal source of prepared meals.If you could grow a garden you did, and the one truly indispensable household appliance was a deep freeze—which made it possible to save leftovers, excess garden produce, and venison for future use. You clipped coupons. You entered contests. You dreamed—if you were my mom—of the life you might have as a carefree writer if only…but that wasn’t real life. If you were a woman, you did the ironing and the cleaning and the caring. If you were a serviceman’s wife, you did the repairs too—whether or not you really knew how.Oh, and if you got really sick, you just died, and that was an accepted part of life.This was not inherently better or worse than how we live today. It was simpler, but it was often highly inequitable.EDIT: I did not, in my answer, mean to imply that the answer was poverty, only that the middle class—in general—was satisfied with a life that was in many ways, far less materially ambitious. Obviously the middle class has always included a range of incomes. My father was career military and my mother was a teacher who quit for almost 20 years to raise a family. That should have put them square in the lower middle of the middle class of the time.