Reply #138: And sometimes the helpers live off of the funds more than the helped [View All]

[The Flaming Red Head]

and don't acknowledge it.

A lot people who actually live off of charity and welfare are the ones doing the distributing and they don’t even know it.

They tried to cut my federal grant to attend nursing school and the little girl at the office was so smug and said "Well, all you want this grant money for is to live off of it" and I told her "Well you're living off of it too" and she said her salary was not paid by federal money and I told her, "Yes it is" and I asked her if she had been following C-Span and what was going on at the time in the US House and she said, "Uggh we have nothing to do with that" And I told her, "You need to follow it, because your job is about to be gone because of it. She didn't believe me.

I called her supervisor, and verified that I was a student in good standing and continued to receive my grant until I graduated from Nursing school and found employment. About a year later the grant office called me from a bigger (different) city to see how I was doing and I asked what had happened to the local employees in my town and was told that they had been phased out due to cutbacks at the federal level.

This rant isn’t directed against you; what you said about the helpers not being one bit better than the helped made me think about this anecdote in my own life.