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   XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy, talk.politics.guns   
   From: alb@lupinedb.org   
      
   On 10 Nov 2025 22:34:25 GMT, Brock McNuggets wrote:   
      
   > On Nov 10, 2025 at 3:07:40 PM MST, "pothead" wrote   
   > <10etnnc$ac3f$1@pothead.dont-email.me>:   
   >   
   >> On 2025-11-10, useapen  wrote:   
   >>> There it was this morning, plain as day. It was a screenshot of a woman   
   >>> going off about how her food stamps were cut off, the $1,000 per month she   
   >>> and her family supposedly get from the government, juxtaposed against her   
   >>> being called out by someone else for hair extensions, expensive trips to   
   >>> the nail salon, and tattoos. In short, she wastes money on unnecessary   
   >>> things and then demands money from the government to support herself.   
   >>>   
   >>> She's squandering money on luxuries while relying on the taxpayers to fund   
   >>> her groceries for anywhere between four and seven people in her household.   
   >>>   
   >>> And worse, there's no sense of shame among many of these people. There's   
   >>> no concept that maybe they should keep their heads down and just be   
   >>> thankful for what they've gotten.   
   >>>   
   >>> Instead, many tried to brag about what all they'd do if they didn't get   
   >>> SNAP money. They threatened violence and got away with it.   
   >>>   
   >>> There used to be a stigma for being a welfare recipient, and while I get   
   >>> that it's not always fair to stigmatize people for temporary setbacks, too   
   >>> many people are still making a lifestyle based on government largesse.   
   >>>   
   >>> These people are too comfortable doing so and are too demanding to be   
   >>> permitted to go about their lives unchallenged.   
   >>>   
   >>> People who refuse to work, who maintain large households and exist off of   
   >>> taxpayer money, shouldn't be accepted. They shouldn't be tolerated. They   
   >>> should be demeaned and mocked as the leeches they are.   
   >>>   
   >>> When I was younger, this happened. It was considered mean to do, but it at   
   >>> least meant those who got welfare in some form at least kept quiet about   
   >>> it. Many were made to feel a sense of shame about it, which often led them   
   >>> to take steps to get off of it and to pay their own way. Others were too   
   >>> damn lazy to care, though, so reforms had to be made by implementing work   
   >>> requirements.   
   >>>   
   >>> But those requirements are so minor that recipients are getting off easy.   
   >>>   
   >>> For those of you who may not remember, back during the reform debate, some   
   >>> literally thought they were entitled to welfare money as their due. That   
   >>> hasn't changed, and that's why these people need to be stigmatized. They   
   >>> need to be made to feel bad about the position they have put themselves   
   >>> in.   
   >>>   
   >>> And it's not just the welfare queens, either.   
   >>>   
   >>> There are a lot of people who are in positions due to their own decisions   
   >>> who somehow think they deserve special treatment. You majored in Lesbian   
   >>> Fruit Bat Studies in college, and you can't get a job? No wonder you   
   >>> can't. You've proven you're too irresponsible to be trusted with your own   
   >>> oxygen supply, much less anything that requires the least bit of   
   >>> responsibility beyond putting on clothes to cover your reproductive parts.   
   >>>   
   >>> You see racism everywhere around you, and that's why you're an a**? Maybe   
   >>> what you chalk up to racism is because you're an insufferable piece of   
   >>> filth, and people don't care about your ethnicity, just that you're a   
   >>> horrible human being.   
   >>>   
   >>> Communist? Enough said, mockery and laughter to follow.   
   >>>   
   >>> Too many people get away with being terrible in various ways. We need to   
   >>> stigmatize these people for exactly what they are: Con artists, deadbeats,   
   >>> and pathetic excuses for human beings barely qualified to turn oxygen into   
   >>> carbon dioxide.   
   >>>   
   >>> Sure, there's a line there. Each of ours might be a little different, but   
   >>> there's a big difference between a disabled veteran who can't work versus   
   >>> someone really upset that our tax dollars won't be available to fund their   
   >>> eyebrow waxing. Those who cross that line need to be the subject of scorn,   
   >>> if for no other reason than to make it loudly apparent that it's   
   >>> unacceptable to do that when you can work.   
   >>>   
   >>> Do enough of that, shame people into cleaning up their lives on their own,   
   >>> without expecting someone to do it for them, and we really will make   
   >>> America great again.   
   >>>   
   >>> https://townhall.com/columnists/tomknighton/2025/11/07/its-time-to-   
   >>> stigmatize-some-people-again-n2666120   
   >   
   > This rant spreads old welfare myths. SNAP doesn’t pay $1,000 a month to   
   > individuals, can’t be spent on tattoos or nails, and most recipients   
   already   
   > work. Shaming poor families doesn’t make them more self-sufficient — it   
   just   
   > fuels resentment and misinformation. Poverty isn’t a moral failure, and   
   > mocking people who need help says more about the accuser than about those   
   > struggling to eat.   
   >   
   >>   
   >> This type of scam is quite prevelant and it crosses all ethnic backgrounds.   
   >> These days scamming the system, which is very easy to do if you know how, is   
   >> worn as a badge of honor.   
   >> NOT by the people who really need assistance but by the leeches and grifters   
   >> who are able to work but refuse to or who collect government checks and work   
   >> tax   
   >> free off the books.   
   >>   
   >> And it would surprise you how many people with fancy homes, high end cars,   
   >> extravegant   
   >> vacations are indeed scamming  the system.   
   >> Why?   
   >> Because it is so darn easy and in the past the government did not do   
   anything   
   >> but the most   
   >> basic checks for eligibility.   
   >>   
   >> That has all changed with the trump administration and the amount of fraud   
   and   
   >> waste in   
   >> the government assistance programs is staggering. And these are funds that   
   >> could be allocated to   
   >> people who really need some assistance for whatever reason.   
   >>   
   >> Of course if you point this out you will be labeled a bigot, racist and so   
   >> forth.   
   >> It's the classic tactic of the demonrats.   
   >> The old "do you want people to starve?" shtick.   
   >> The problem the demonrats have is that the voters are not falling for this   
   >> routine anymore and hence   
   >> the government shutdown where the demonrats attempted to pull the bigot,   
   >> republicans want you to starve   
   >> game once again but failed to mention one "minor fact" which is NOBODY wants   
   >> people to starve however   
   >> the republicans AND the voters do not want to fund welfare, healthcare and   
   so   
   >> forth for illegal migrants.   
   >> They kept leaving that part out but the voters quickly caught on to the   
   ruse.   
   >> And as for medical care, if an illegal is in dire need of medical care,   
   patch   
   >> him or her up and once   
      
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