I will never understand people who have given up on doing any better for themselves and willingly settled for a poverty lifestyle. I see so many able bodied people who choose to live on welfare or a bogus disability claim, then complain when they can’t afford something. They rack up frequent flyer miles at the pawn shop peddling whatever they have that might get them $50 until their next government paycheck comes in. Then have to choke up $60 to get their item back.
You’d think that a person would realize that they’re still only getting the same amount every month. That $50 from the pawn shop wasn’t “extra money” if you had to pay it back with interest the next month. Did you ever think that you just might be able to afford things if you weren’t spending your money on pawn shop interest? Funniest of all is when these people think that I value their pawned items and should give them the money to go recover their items “for me”.
I have never fallen for this scam before and I never will, I won’t even ask what they owe so they don’t get the notion that I might be willing to rescue their item. I have no interest in other people’s used crap and holding it for them interest-free until hell freezes over. If you’re about to lose your Xbox because you’re too irresponsible with money and too lazy to go get even a part-time job, then you deserve to lose whatever you took to the pawn shop. Sorry, I’m not raising you.
I had a friend who fell for this once and I don’t think he ever got his money out of the deadbeat. His pawn shop jockey friend always had some kind of laughable excuse. “I had your money, but I couldn’t make it over here.” Really? You had the money that you owed to somebody else and couldn’t force yourself to save it? Does money spoil if you don’t spend it? Unemployed behavior never ceases to amaze me, there’s always some new excuse that they think sounds logical.
So, you consciously decided 30 years ago that social security disability income was an acceptable amount of money per month and you that want to be a renter until the day you die? Even the longest term home loan would have been paid off by this time, and that loan payment would have been less than what you paid for rent every month since then. You willingly put yourself in this position, and you expect others to take pity on you and bail you out? Not a chance!
I seriously hope that these people living on fake disabilities lose their benefits and have to start paying their own way, instead of making everybody else continue to raise them. If they’re able-bodied enough to go hang out at a bar, play in a weekend band, shovel sidewalks in the winter, etc – then they’re not too disabled to go get a damn job! I’m actually living with two disabilities and could do the same thing, but $1600 only covers my monthly bills. So I choose to work!
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