Overheard: Bizarre tale from a self-declared conservative

[Buzz Clik]

Such an interesting story I overheard:

My mother ran into a liberal yesterday. She is disabled and goes to the food pantry once a month. She is the type of person i have no problem with getting help because she can't help herself. She is very grateful for the help she gets from them.

Anyways, she was picking up food yesterday and this lady walks in. The guy behind the counter hands this lady some cereal and the woman gave the guy a dirty look and said, this is not the kind i like and continued to bitch and moan about everything the guy was giving her. My mother was getting upset because she can't stand up for long and they had to get her a chair because this lady was being such a bitch.

Moral of the story is this woman did not need to be there. She was in her 30' so says my mom and must be living off the dole. I never seen my mom so upset because this lady was so rude and ungrateful.

It's nice to know that a conservative can actually justify someone "getting handouts" (especially when it's his mom), but this story really has only two possible origins:

1) It's complete fabrication. People of this ilk make it a habit to denigrate those less fortunate and relegate bad behavior to "liberals."

2) It's true, but the weaver of this fabric is a heartless bastard. My mom also would be making trips to the food pantry and other charities, but her children take care of her. We don't hesitate to pony up to make sure she has what she needs -- including rides to where she needs to go.

Christ. These people try to draw political distinctions by casting aspersions but end up looking like total jackasses.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

1. Some people are obsessed with other people getting crumbs to live on.

[TrollBuster9090]

2. They don't cast aspersions, they cast...

[mahina]

3. aspersions on their apsaragus?

[gordianot]

4. All humans are 3 days of meals from rioting no matter who you are or income.

Pointing this out I have and actually had conservatives state they would never stoop to violence to get food. When I get this response for effect I state as an affluent liberal I would be willing to cut throats for food by that time to feed family. You can live 3 weeks but after 3 days my life means little as 62 year old in obtaining food for family. As a follow up ask them how many people are in or close to that state now? This line will shut up most conservatives complaining about so called food handouts.

[hunter]

7. All of us have ancestors who were cannibals at some point or another.

That makes stealing for food, rioting for food, and especially visiting the food bank, seem like very small things, doesn't it?

The world of "A Boy and His Dog" isn't appealing to me.

[ck4829]

5. A possible explanation

To people against a strong safety net, people on assistance are broken down into two groups, there are the 'deserving poor', the people who are down on their luck, who are polite when they get assistance, the victims of external circumstances, and so on; and then there are 'undeserving poor', the people who must be frauds, the apparently obnoxious ones, the can work but don't work, etc.

It's always an amazing coincidence that the deserving just happen to be friends and family of the person against welfare (If not the person themselves) while the undeserving are strangers.

As for calling the person a liberal, it's because being undeserving deserves stigma in that person's eyes, and this conservative is willing to offload lots of behaviors and traits onto this person that the teller of this tale knows nothing about, all sorts of behaviors and traits they don't approve of. For example if they hated the other side of town, they probably would have said the person must have came from there without knowing any real facts about the person. But this person doesn't like liberals, so she MUST have been a liberal.

[starroute]

6. There are whiners in the world, but it has nothing to do with soup kitchens

The writer could have said, "My mother is on a fixed income, but once a month she likes to treat herself by going to the gourmet grocery and getting a few small items. She was there yesterday when a lady walked in and proceeded to bitch and moan about everything the man behind the counter offered her. My mother can't stand up for long, and they had to get her a chair because this lady was being such a bitch."

Same situation. Same annoyance. But you've removed the identification of the annoying person as (1) poor and (2) a "liberal." (And how would the writer have known that anyway?)

[Buzz Clik]

8. Frank ....

... you know I read your stories, but I will not cast those pearls before swine.

As far as who has greater respect for whom, I'm guessing it's a dead heat. We have a history of occasionally annoying each other for predictable reasons*, but it all comes out in the wash.

[Orsino]

9. Of course it's a fabrication.

"On the dole" is a phrasing one would hear in the UK, for one thing.

It's a fabrication.