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DestroyDestroyDestroy
reply to post by TheJourney
Enjoy yourself on your own dime. Is this really too much to ask? What, people who actually work should pay so that people who don't work can enjoy themselves? Is it too much to ask for people to give something back to society?
Cancerwarrior
TPTB are doing an outstanding job at demonizing the poor and disabled as moochers that want a free meal and be lazy and watch judge judy all day.
You'll see it over and over and over, especially on a site like this where internet anonymity makes people ruthless.
I'm disabled, and on food stamps also. All the people raging against SNAP and such need to realize that all it takes is a diagnosis of cancer or some other disabling injury and they will see the other side of the coin so to speak. They will then be thankful that there is such a program so at least they don't starve.
Americans have no idea what really being hungry is like.
Cancerwarrior
TPTB are doing an outstanding job at demonizing the poor and disabled as moochers that want a free meal and be lazy and watch judge judy all day.
You'll see it over and over and over, especially on a site like this where internet anonymity makes people ruthless.
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. ~ Bertrand Russell
Everyone has observed how much more dogs are animated when they hunt in a pack, than when they pursue their game apart. We might, perhaps, be at a loss to explain this phenomenon, if we had not experience of a similar in ourselves.
David Hume ~ A Treatise of Human Nature
Kangaruex4Ewe
Through all of these times we have witnessed folks in the grocery store eating much better than we were eating on what we helped pay in. THAT is where I/we had/have an issue. You work your fingers to the bone and at the end of the week you get Ramen noodles while the food stamp folks get steak. You get off brand mac & cheeses while they have the velveeta. It is petty but in the moment it pisses you off. I freely admit it.
They get to go to the movies that weekend because they didn't have to spend their money on food. They spent my money on their food. They have Iphones because they don't have to worry about how their children will eat. I will feed mine and their's as well. That is how I feel about it a lot of the time. I hate it if that ticks some folks off, but I know I am not the only one who feels this way. What would happen if those of us who struggle by on our own, just quit struggling and went on food stamps like so many other people??? Sometimes that is what you feel like doing, even when you know it isn't the right thing to do.