What even is the point of this besides cruelty? :amerikkka:
I would love to see a poll that asks people how much they think welfare schemes like disability and food stamps pays out monthly. Guarantee most people would grossly over estimate then be shocked by the real number
Alternately, they may guess in the ballpark, but do "well-off people telling you how they could totally live on minimum wage" accounting to argue it's fine.
Did we forget about all the libs that do the food stamp challenge? We're too lazy to pass meaningful reform so we're gonna live like the poors for a week. I hear you, I see you, I'm not doing jackshit for you.
Or "maybe they wouldn't be where they are if they ever decided to save some money."
I don't understand why these people don't just do that if they think it is so easy to make money by welfare.
Racism is a big part of it, too. The implicit assumption from a lot of reactionary white folks is that "the black people are lazy so of course they would rather have a meager handout and not work than make a little more by working". It's rarely if ever explicitly said but as with most racist bs like this it never is explicitly said. And IMO it's extremely pervasive among US American whites.
Often racists make themselves believe that non-whites somehow has easier access to welfare than whites and gets angry about it.
An example of this from my country is an urban legend that has circulated for almost half a century about how you know someone whose cousin has a colleague who knows a guy who works on constructing a completely new housing block in another city with all modern luxuries, and how only refugees and asylum seekers will be allowed to live there while whites have to stay on the normal waiting list for social housing. The story is complete bollocks but it illustrates the racist anger that somehow non-whites are coming here and taking our stuff.
They'll go off on something about pride, self-worth, dignity, "the value of work", etc etc.
You know...bullshit.
I happen to have a few folks in my social circle who work in emergency rooms, urgent cares, and other patient-facing roles within the healthcare system. And the absolute contempt they have for anyone coming in who's on Medicaid/govt assistance is staggering. If you listened to them, you'd think every patient who comes in on Medicaid drives a Beamer and is scamming the system...
I do know most Americans think like 30%-40% of our entire national budget goes towards foreign aid (specifically "undeserving" and "corrupt" African nations and such) when in reality it's less than 0.20%. The US doesn't even meet the UN target for aid which is 0.7% and is one of the stingiest countries in the global north with aid yet most Americans think we need to spend even LESS. :amerikkka:
this is what the PMC Liz Warren class want as they virtue signal about "Bernie's plan doesn't offer long term care"
That's why my brother still lives with our sister. He's literally forced to be too poor to live on his own, and anything he tries to do to alleviate that situation could lose him what little he has. Living in the US makes you hate the US if you pay any attention to what this country does to the people you love.
They are forcing the disabled to live in poverty out of fear some undeserving fraudster might get healthcare. Meanwhile their reaction to leaks about how much the rich cheat on their taxes was a promise to hunt down the whistleblower.
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My partner’s mom is in this exact poverty trap. We had to buy her a car. She runs out of money every month and lives off ramen for the last week. She has a CRT tv from 1980. And she came from a relatively well off family so she is luckier than many.
Fucking scumbag system.
AND disability is basically welfare for white people only so they can still look down on POC welfare recipients.
