I almost gave in . . .

I can see how easy it is to get trapped in a welfare state. I realized a while back that since my current income is so low, I qualified for certain things, and for a moment I thought, “It will be nice to have those things (from the government) and I won’t even have to pay for them (or they will be discounted).”

Then I realized that if I get the job I’m currently pursuing, I would be making too much money to qualify for those things and for a brief moment, I wondered if I should just stay where I’m at. That’s when it hit me. So many people have chosen not to pursue a better life, because they risk losing government assistance. The mass number of people still receiving government assistance after decades attests to this.

It is human nature to become dependant upon it.