Re: It's Time to Stigmatize Some People Again

On Nov 10, 2025 at 7:54:41 PM MST, "Mitchell Holman" wrote
<[email protected]>:

> pothead <[email protected]> wrote in
> news:[email protected]:
> 
>> On 2025-11-10, useapen <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> There it was this morning, plain as day. It was a screenshot of a
>>> woman going off about how her food stamps were cut off, the $1,000
>>> per month she and her family supposedly get from the government,
>>> juxtaposed against her being called out by someone else for hair
>>> extensions, expensive trips to the nail salon, and tattoos. In short,
>>> she wastes money on unnecessary things and then demands money from
>>> the government to support herself.
>>> 
>>> She's squandering money on luxuries while relying on the taxpayers to
>>> fund her groceries for anywhere between four and seven people in her
>>> household.
>>> 
>>> And worse, there's no sense of shame among many of these people.
>>> There's no concept that maybe they should keep their heads down and
>>> just be thankful for what they've gotten.
>>> 
>>> Instead, many tried to brag about what all they'd do if they didn't
>>> get SNAP money. They threatened violence and got away with it.
>>> 
>>> There used to be a stigma for being a welfare recipient, and while I
>>> get that it's not always fair to stigmatize people for temporary
>>> setbacks, too many people are still making a lifestyle based on
>>> government largesse.
>>> 
>>> These people are too comfortable doing so and are too demanding to be
>>> permitted to go about their lives unchallenged.
>>> 
>>> People who refuse to work, who maintain large households and exist
>>> off of taxpayer money, shouldn't be accepted. They shouldn't be
>>> tolerated. They should be demeaned and mocked as the leeches they
>>> are.
>>> 
>>> When I was younger, this happened. It was considered mean to do, but
>>> it at least meant those who got welfare in some form at least kept
>>> quiet about it. Many were made to feel a sense of shame about it,
>>> which often led them to take steps to get off of it and to pay their
>>> own way. Others were too damn lazy to care, though, so reforms had to
>>> be made by implementing work requirements.
>>> 
>>> But those requirements are so minor that recipients are getting off
>>> easy.
>>> 
>>> For those of you who may not remember, back during the reform debate,
>>> some literally thought they were entitled to welfare money as their
>>> due. That hasn't changed, and that's why these people need to be
>>> stigmatized. They need to be made to feel bad about the position they
>>> have put themselves in.
>>> 
>>> And it's not just the welfare queens, either.
>>> 
>>> There are a lot of people who are in positions due to their own
>>> decisions who somehow think they deserve special treatment. You
>>> majored in Lesbian Fruit Bat Studies in college, and you can't get a
>>> job? No wonder you can't. You've proven you're too irresponsible to
>>> be trusted with your own oxygen supply, much less anything that
>>> requires the least bit of responsibility beyond putting on clothes to
>>> cover your reproductive parts.
>>> 
>>> You see racism everywhere around you, and that's why you're an a**?
>>> Maybe what you chalk up to racism is because you're an insufferable
>>> piece of filth, and people don't care about your ethnicity, just that
>>> you're a horrible human being.
>>> 
>>> Communist? Enough said, mockery and laughter to follow.
>>> 
>>> Too many people get away with being terrible in various ways. We need
>>> to stigmatize these people for exactly what they are: Con artists,
>>> deadbeats, and pathetic excuses for human beings barely qualified to
>>> turn oxygen into carbon dioxide.
>>> 
>>> Sure, there's a line there. Each of ours might be a little different,
>>> but there's a big difference between a disabled veteran who can't
>>> work versus someone really upset that our tax dollars won't be
>>> available to fund their eyebrow waxing. Those who cross that line
>>> need to be the subject of scorn, if for no other reason than to make
>>> it loudly apparent that it's unacceptable to do that when you can
>>> work.
>>> 
>>> Do enough of that, shame people into cleaning up their lives on their
>>> own, without expecting someone to do it for them, and we really will
>>> make America great again.
>>> 
>>> https://townhall.com/columnists/tomknighton/2025/11/07/its-time-to-
>>> stigmatize-some-people-again-n2666120
>> 
>> This type of scam is quite prevelant and it crosses all ethnic
>> backgrounds. These days scamming the system, which is very easy to do
>> if you know how, is worn as a badge of honor.
>> NOT by the people who really need assistance but by the leeches and
>> grifters who are able to work but refuse to or who collect government
>> checks and work tax free off the books.
>> 
>> And it would surprise you how many people with fancy homes, high end
>> cars, extravegant vacations are indeed scamming  the system.
>> Why?
>> Because it is so darn easy and in the past the government did not do
>> anything but the most basic checks for eligibility.
> 
> 
> 
>    Indeed, where is the accoutability
> when government throws out BILLIONS in
> "loans" and hides who got them and if
> they were ever repaid?
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> 
> Keeping $500 Billion in Bailout Funds Secret
> June 11 2020
> 
> The Trump administration intends to keep
> secret the names of the businesses that
> have received more than $500 billion in
> COVID-19 bailout funds through the
> Paycheck Protection Program (PPP),
> claiming the information is "confidential"
> https://www.citizen.org/news/keeping-500-billion-in-bailout-funds-secret/

But a single parent getting $600 in food stamps is the issue, right?

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