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You spend your life on welfare lines
Or looking for handouts
Why don't you go find a job
You birth more kids to up your checks
So you can buy more drugs
Cash in food stamps and get drunk
Uncle Sam takes half my pay
So you can live for free
I got a family and bills to pay
No one hands money to me
You can go to school for nothing
Get money in advance
Got that government grant
When you're sick from shooting up
Medicaid pays full portion
When little Maria gets knocked up
She gets a free abortion
Uncle Sam takes half my pay
So you can live for free
I got a family and bills to pay
No one hands money to me
How come it's minorities who cry
Things are too tough
On TV with their gold chains
They claim they don't get enough
I say make them clean the sewers
Don't take no resistance
If they don't like it, go to hell
And cut their public assistance
Uncle Sam takes half my pay
So you can live for free
I got a family and bills to pay
No one hands money to me
(Don't take no resistance,
Cut their public assistance)
Or looking for handouts
Why don't you go find a job
You birth more kids to up your checks
So you can buy more drugs
Cash in food stamps and get drunk
So you can live for free
I got a family and bills to pay
No one hands money to me
Get money in advance
Got that government grant
When you're sick from shooting up
Medicaid pays full portion
When little Maria gets knocked up
She gets a free abortion
So you can live for free
I got a family and bills to pay
No one hands money to me
Things are too tough
On TV with their gold chains
They claim they don't get enough
I say make them clean the sewers
Don't take no resistance
If they don't like it, go to hell
And cut their public assistance
So you can live for free
I got a family and bills to pay
No one hands money to me
Cut their public assistance)
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Obviously you have never applied for welfare or disability. If you are white it is damn near impossible to get...
no comments? this is one of the worst "punk" songs in history. and this coming from someone who is a moderate Agnostic Front fan. yeah Roger Miret is latino, but there are still a lot of people on welfare who are working minimum wage trying to make end's meet.
That's the problem with punk rock, it ridiculously simplifies issues sometimes.
It's clearly attacking a very specific type of person on welfare, the type who ruin the system for everyone and cheat off it, but then puts all who receive it with the same brush. Also is single
Thing is this song is apparently in response to an incident where Roger and Vinnie both applied for public assistance. Vinnie didn't get is "because he is white". Now I don't know how New York's welfare system works but I am guessing there isn't a 'tick here if you are white' box that automatically voids your claim.
This is a dumb, boneheaded, counter-liberation song. When the lyricist was asked about it, he gave a half-assed answer about someone smoking crack in his apartment building, and thus, fuck everybody on welfare?
"Get a job"? How square. Get fucked.