Fuck off Bitch this isn't fucking fairyland and money doesn't grow on trees.

The BBQ Pit
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Apparently unless the people of Portage are willing to write checks to pay for everybody’s problems, the whole community is uncaring greedy fucks. Ma works where she sees people wanting help like this every day. At the current request level, they’d need enormous amounts of money that will never appear. People give what they can. The woman writing this letter to the newspaper has hardly experienced problems, and when her world wasn’t made fairyland happy instantly, she thinks she has it tough. Ma sees people come in and say they need them to cover $3000 in back rent and the present rent is due, and they don’t have power. Some how the fact that requests like this come in daily, doesn’t seem to matter to the people begging, the charity is just being uncaring cheap bastards. The people are offered a space at the shelter that is now running, but they say it’s not good enough> They want a motel room paid for. You have the group of professional beggars that stop on their road trips to try and get something the whole trip home. People drive here for visits, and vacations and come in wanting gas money to get home. Would you give gas money to the lady that vacationed in the Dells and gambled at Ho Chunk for a week, and says she doesn’t have gas to get home? They didn’t have the money for gas when they drove here, but what the hell, somebody should gives them money to go home. Two thirds of the people asking for help are lying so blatantly that you want to tell them get the fuck out you lying fucking bitch. They have to keep records on the people that have been helped due to all the lying. The charities call each other to warn about some of these pieces of shit. Charities have to work really hard to get the most for the people that need help and that means people don’t get their frick’n mortgages paid, because they can’t pay it. They don’t get their wages comped, and their medical bills paid. This lady isn’t even close to how badly life has shit on some of these people. There are persons trying to work that are homeless coming in for some help. There are people that will take a shelter, instead of saying only paying for your house mortgage is acceptable. These are the people the money is spent on. They can help 10 or 20 people for the same amount of money. I didn’t really even go into the detail of how ridiculous the expectations of some person are.

This lady references one of the families who’s house was struck by lightning and lost everything. A bit later a SUV they had borrowed was rear ended by a vehicle at a stop light when the breaks failed. No major injuries. How dare people give them stuff, and not her.

http://www.wiscnews.com/pdr/opinion/247656

Here is a recent local $23,000 fund raiser for Alzheimer’s, but what the fuck we don’t help. The new battered women shelter operates on donations from Portage, as do many other services like the food pantry.
http://www.wiscnews.com/pdr/news/247417

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Cut her some slack. Her son is ill and she can’t help him. Her letter reads like the unburdening of a desperate woman. Don’t take it so personally.

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Hell, you can have yourself a paragraph break for free.

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Harmonious Discord is technically posting two separate arguments as one mixed Pitting, sure, but both arguments have valid points.

Why *should *that woman get priority over people who are desperately needy? More to the point, why does she feel entitled to that priority treatment sufficiently to write about it to the papers? Yes, of course she’s upset and wanting to share that, but blaming Portage for not digging her out of it? What the hell is up with that?

As for the rest of your post, Harmonious Discord, I also agree with you. My sister-in-law worked for a major charity in Adelaide, and encountered exactly the kinds of people you described. For every person who was genuinely grateful to receive any help they could, there’d be another who just wanted money so they could keep on living the same lifestyle they’d had before - and who would verbally abuse the workers when they couldn’t comply.

I feel like an old fuddy-duddy (at 34) for saying it, but I really think our society is declining rapidly, and this massive sense of entitlement that’s developing is driving it. It seems to cram out any space for people’s personal sense of responsibility - everything is ‘the goverment’s fault’ or ‘someone else’s fault’. Never ‘my fault’. And the emphasis seems to be veering not towards how you can learn from your mistakes and get back on track with your life, but to how you can get back to doing* exactly what you like to do *again, regardless of the outcomes - because SOMEONE, or some Charity, will always dig you out of your own stupid mess.

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With you on that one. With other Pit material available a click away, I couldn’t handle it.