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Re: It's Time to Stigmatize Some People Again

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pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote in
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> On 2025-11-10, useapen <yourdime@outlook.com> 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 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.



   Indeed, where is the accoutability 
when government throws out BILLIONS in
"loans" and hides who got them and if
they were ever repaid?






Keeping $500 Billion in Bailout Funds Secret
June 11 2020

The Trump administration intends to keep 
secret the names of the businesses that 
have received more than $500 billion in 
COVID-19 bailout funds through the 
Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), 
claiming the information is "confidential"
https://www.citizen.org/news/keeping-500-billion-in-bailout-funds-secret/

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It's Time to Stigmatize Some People Again useapen <yourdime@outlook.com> - 2025-11-10 08:51 +0000
  Re: It's Time to Stigmatize Some People Again pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> - 2025-11-10 22:07 +0000
    Re: It's Time to Stigmatize Some People Again Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2025-11-10 22:34 +0000
      Re: It's Time to Stigmatize Some People Again ALB <alb@lupinedb.org> - 2025-11-10 20:54 -0500
        Re: It's Time to Stigmatize Some People Again Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2025-11-11 02:08 +0000
          Re: It's Time to Stigmatize Some People Again ALB <alb@lupinedb.org> - 2025-11-11 16:58 -0500
        Re: It's Time to Stigmatize Some People Again Gremlin <nobody@haph.org> - 2025-11-11 23:38 +0000
    Re: It's Time to Stigmatize Some People Again Mitchell Holman <nomail@aol.com> - 2025-11-11 02:54 +0000
      Re: It's Time to Stigmatize Some People Again Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2025-11-11 05:45 +0000
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