I am dependant on social assistance. It is my contention that my first and foremost
responsibility as someone who is on government charity is to remain as
independent and as valuable a member of society as possible. Knowing that the
sum I receive is more than half below the poverty line, I deliberately, and
with my father's advice (now defunct), believe it is not my right to give to
charity. The money I live off of is charity given to me by a burdened
government department for the poor so it is not for me to delegate this essential
sum of money to something else.
Therefore, it is disheartening to be assumed to be willingly
giving to (even) a significant other a large percentage (think half) of the
money that is supposed to be delegated to me. And this without any explanation.
Whatever might be assumed
as for the reason why I give out this money (i.e. that I feel I do not deserve
it (or a significant other feels I do not need it) the reasoning is moot as
long as the money remains essential sum to myself as someone living beneath the
poverty line. When the sum is so small the possibility of victimization is very
present and the money wisely used will help relegate this. I am sure the
authorities handing out the cheque will look at this action with a jaded eye.
So much so, that they might, realistically, delegate the money as quickly and
efficiently as possible in order to not get embroiled in the whole mess. This
behavior of government officials might be, by hostile entities, used to great advantage.
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