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tblue37
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September 30, 2016
[font color = "red" font size = "+1"]***NOTE: This line from one of the paragraphs I did not quote is too important not to include here:[/font]
And right here is that video of the hateful woman screaming at the father for daring to use food stamps to feed his kid:
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EXCELLENT article about OWING one's vote to help the poor & about the reality of poverty for
the working poor <emphasis added throughout excerpt>.
[font color = "red"]***I have cross-posted this to "General Discussion" because I think the article makes important points, and I want to make it visible even for people who never come to the "Good Reads" forum. BTW, the commentary from The Young Turks that comprises much of the length of this embedded video is also excellent and worth watching, but the video itself is only few minutes long at the start of the longer video, and it ends at the 1:37 mark, in case you don't want to commit to watching the entire 11:57 of the commentary.[/font]
https://thinkprogress.org/ketchup-sandwiches-and-other-things-stupid-poor-people-eat-41617483b497#.p23g4ih1z
Ketchup sandwiches and other things stupid poor people eat
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America loves helping the shoeless, iphoneless, voteless, bug-infested Street Jesuses. These are the lost-cause poor; all they want is your pocket change. (Bless their hearts.) But the working poor? Those who claim to not have enough money for food because they also need clothes for work, water for bathing and laundry, rent for housing, heat in the winter, money for daycare, a smartphone for their job, car insurance and gas — those are some shifty motherfuckers.
If you’re on food stamps America has every right to hate you, as evidenced by this angry conservative yelling at a father and child for using food stamps. This lady proves conservatives love a good hate like they love a good steak. I assume she thinks of herself as a nice person, a good person, a church-goer. We all think everyone else is the asshole, right? There isn’t a lot of self-directed road rage out there. How often do we key our own cars? It’s always okay to hate the other guy when the hate is justified — like child predators, rapists, and food stamp users.
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Don’t confuse aid with charity. Charity is old coats. Donating a coat doesn’t make you a good person but I bet it makes you feel like one. You didn’t even want that coat anymore, what you wanted was the closet space. Sure, you could have sold it at a garage sale and made, like, twenty bucks. It was an expensive coat, damn it. But you, with your heart of gold, gave it away. There’s a twinkle in God’s eye just for you.
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Vote for a Living Wage for others. Vote for health insurance for others. Don’t get in the way of food stamps for others. Understand how important $17 might be to others. That poor stretch of Atlanta is quiet because people are working and paying for day care. They’re clocking the same hours you’re clocking, but they make a shit wage.
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MUCH MORE AT LINK! https://thinkprogress.org/ketchup-sandwiches-and-other-things-stupid-poor-people-eat-41617483b497#.p23g4ih1z
Ketchup sandwiches and other things stupid poor people eat
SNIP
America loves helping the shoeless, iphoneless, voteless, bug-infested Street Jesuses. These are the lost-cause poor; all they want is your pocket change. (Bless their hearts.) But the working poor? Those who claim to not have enough money for food because they also need clothes for work, water for bathing and laundry, rent for housing, heat in the winter, money for daycare, a smartphone for their job, car insurance and gas — those are some shifty motherfuckers.
If you’re on food stamps America has every right to hate you, as evidenced by this angry conservative yelling at a father and child for using food stamps. This lady proves conservatives love a good hate like they love a good steak. I assume she thinks of herself as a nice person, a good person, a church-goer. We all think everyone else is the asshole, right? There isn’t a lot of self-directed road rage out there. How often do we key our own cars? It’s always okay to hate the other guy when the hate is justified — like child predators, rapists, and food stamp users.
SNIP
Don’t confuse aid with charity. Charity is old coats. Donating a coat doesn’t make you a good person but I bet it makes you feel like one. You didn’t even want that coat anymore, what you wanted was the closet space. Sure, you could have sold it at a garage sale and made, like, twenty bucks. It was an expensive coat, damn it. But you, with your heart of gold, gave it away. There’s a twinkle in God’s eye just for you.
SNIP
Vote for a Living Wage for others. Vote for health insurance for others. Don’t get in the way of food stamps for others. Understand how important $17 might be to others. That poor stretch of Atlanta is quiet because people are working and paying for day care. They’re clocking the same hours you’re clocking, but they make a shit wage.
SNIP
MUCH MORE AT LINK! https://thinkprogress.org/ketchup-sandwiches-and-other-things-stupid-poor-people-eat-41617483b497#.p23g4ih1z
[font color = "red" font size = "+1"]***NOTE: This line from one of the paragraphs I did not quote is too important not to include here:[/font]
[font color = "blue" font size = "+1"]What’s scary about the woman in the video is that she sees what’s in the dad’s cart (food for his kid) and she hates him for it.[/font]
And right here is that video of the hateful woman screaming at the father for daring to use food stamps to feed his kid:
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