My brother's really conservative
Friend, who I thought was a jerk before I knew his political affiliation; yeasterday he was doing the usual republican rant about how the government is the problem, that we don't need food stamps or welfare, or FEMA. First I told him red states take more from the federal gov't than they give. With a lot of blue states it's the opposite. Then I was like do you really think states could handle billions of dollars in damage on their own? And he said yes TN. did then I proceeded to show him online the 1 billion dollars our state was given when floods and storms hit here. Then I cited hurricane Katrina's 105 billion dollars worth of damage, then he said people should get flood insurance, and save their money. Then I had to tell him that many people lost their businesses and that you have to live in a flood zone to get flood insurance. Then I went on to tell him he's living in a f***ing dream world if he thinks states could handle that on their own. He conceded on the FEMA argument and actually admitted I was right ( FTW!!!!) Then he moves back to welfare and food stamps when I told him a lot of people on food stamps work, they just have a low wage job. He then told me he qualifies for food stamps, but chooses not to get them. Then, I explained people on welfare are not always lazy a person could get ill and lose all of their money and welfare is their only choice. Then I went on to say a family of 4 receives about 900 dollars a month on welfare, so these families aren't going on shopping sprees. He was silent for a second and then said "I didn't say everyone on welfare is lazy." Then I said " then why do you hate welfare so much?" He then says "I work hard for my money, buy my own food, pay my bills, pay my health and car insurance, rent" etc. why should other people get handouts? Then my brother's other friend walked in the room and says " No you don't, you live with your mom." I was laughing so hard when his other friend said that. Then I said "I guess it's a lot easier to not mooch from the gov't when you mooch from your parents instead." Next he got up and walked out of the door. This guy's lack of empathy is scary, as well as his compulsive lying. I wish my bro would ditch this guy.
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that being said, good on ya! and BTW, food stamps were put in place to help farmers, not poor people. the Gov'nmt figured since they had to buy the excess food, might as well give it to the poor.
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Gives you the typical RW rant hating on welfare and food stamps and overpaid government workers living on taxpayer money while working for a defense company that doesn't pay her enough to support her and her kids. So she lives with my parents who both only get by because they collect ss. (parents are also super conservative and vote for politicians eager to do away with ss.) It does no good to point out their hypocrisy. Unless I want to see them freak out and get angry 
That needs to repeated until it gets through their brainwashed skulls. It is the sacred private sector doing the theft and democratic governance with regulation standing between them and the robber barons. And that a government strong enough to protect the common man from them doesn't run on fairy dust, it needs tax revenue, of which he'd pay little or none under the Democratic Party platform.
Lol what an idiot shut the fuck up! I think that's a republican who's on the wrong website so 
and after that happens 
