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In reply to the discussion: The double-standard of making the poor prove they’re worthy of government benefits [View all]silvershadow
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The double-standard of making the poor prove they’re worthy of government benefits [View all]
gollygee
Apr 2016
OP
Getting the middle class to attack the poor instead of the rich is a winning strategy
Major Nikon
Apr 2016
#7
The small number that abuse the system get the press and encourage more restrictions.
FLPanhandle
Apr 2016
#8
I "love" the hot coffee lawsuit logic of tort reformers. "but she spilled coffee" - "yes but it was
MillennialDem
Apr 2016
#50
It's not as if right wing hatred of the poor is rooted in any sort of common sense...
MrScorpio
Apr 2016
#11
A divisive tactic used to take even more away from the poor...feeds into stereotypes as well.
Jefferson23
Apr 2016
#12
"Good Day?" It's between 8:30 and 12:30. The continental US is covered in darkness.
Algernon Moncrieff
Apr 2016
#33
If it helps I've seen Suburbanites of color that are just as bad, I've lived poor
Dragonfli
Apr 2016
#55
And the point was that these legends play direcly to what the OP is saying
Algernon Moncrieff
Apr 2016
#62
"Every" seemed simpler than the more accurate "disturbingly pervasive"
Algernon Moncrieff
Apr 2016
#70
HELL, every congressman who serves at the state or fed level should be drug tested
FlatBaroque
Apr 2016
#53
So if a poor person gets a gift and pays rent with that gift and then uses his food card
JDPriestly
Apr 2016
#37
Tax breaks need to be replaced with subsidies and grants. It would be more honest and simpler
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2016
#34
Wherever homeless are giving FREE HOUSING, overall costs go down a lot.
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2016
#36
Thank you. There are no hard and fast rules, but simply giving housing to the homeless
JDPriestly
Apr 2016
#38
I would say it's a scam at work and should be illegal as well. I don't use drugs, so the only
MillennialDem
Apr 2016
#49
Because if you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes true. The poor are spending their
MillennialDem
Apr 2016
#48
Teachings of Christianity. If someone is a victim, they are somehow at fault for their own
Amimnoch
Apr 2016
#72
The rich get more welfare dollarwise, they need daily drug testing.
Dont call me Shirley
Apr 2016
#73