SNAP

[enders_shadow]

I know, I know, it's friday, gimme a break from this crap. But I'm sorry, bad thinking pisses me right the fuck off.

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This man is a member of congress; but his reasoning is SO FUCKING SLOPPY. "People who are in shape cannot possible need SNAP

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[yardlong]

That reflects a common mindset that doesn't serve any of us. The guy was extra-offended because that couple didn't look the way he wanted them to look - dirty, fat and sloppy, and preferably with annoying children with snot running down their faces. And besides that, this couple was in a nice store in a nice area. He is clueless about whatever their reality is and why they need food assistance, but the bottom line is that many people do not want recipients of charity to succeed or thrive in any way. They must be kept down. That way of thinking is the basis of "spend-down" rules, lest an intelligent poor person manage money in such a way so as not to stay so far down. God forbid that such a poor person might end up with more than someone who has a good income, yet no brains as far as managing it. There's a resentment ethic in this country, and when you see its opposite, along with true charity, it is something to celebrate.

[enders_shadow]

He also has no faculty for imagination. No consideration of how or why people are on food stamps.

But, ya know, if they're poor enough for food stamps, they should be unhealthy, that way, we can blame them for driving up healthcare costs too!

[fizzyland]

If they were overweight, he'd accuse them of not needing assistance because of being fat pigs.

Resentment ethic, that's as good a name for it as any.

[telemann]

Sweet Louie!

[enders_shadow]

Louie Gohmert is one of the best cases for not having democracy that I have ever seen. (ja ja, the Churchill quote and all)

[devil_ad_vocate]

Louie is one of the best arguments for placing "The Dome" over Tyler, Texas.

[htpcl]

So all the OWS grassroots activism you got involved in, was all for naught? You bled for those ideas, man! (weeps quietly)

[musicpsych]

Or he'd equate being obese with laziness and say they're just not working hard enough.

[airiefairie]

It is pure ignorance, combined with confirmation bias. I'm not sure many of those people realise how being poor leads to buying junk food, which in turn can lead to obesity. That is the ignorance part.

[notmrgarrison]

many people do not want recipients of charity to succeed or thrive in any way. They must be kept down.

That way they keep voting for the democrats.

[enders_shadow]

Yup, cause all those rich fucks, like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, they're automatically right-wing dickbags who vote Republican cause they got money, amirite?

We all know, as Jenna Jameson said, when you're rich you want a republican in office.

Well, you tell me, just how much is James Carville worth? Alec Baldwin? Matt Damon?
Rich fucks can be democrats too.

[notmrgarrison]

That contradicts the converse of what I said, which is to say it doesn't contradict what I said. But thanks for the newsflash.

[enders_shadow]

You didn't say anything of value; you made an unsupported claim.
Do you have any evidence that recipients of charity who succeed or thrive switch from voting for the Dems to voting for the Repubs?

Please cite the study that proves your point, or admit you are spewing nothing but hot air.

[notmrgarrison]

People on public assistance generally vote democratic. You want a study for that one?
(and you're trying to contradict the converse of what I said, again)

[fizzyland]

You do realize that the Red States are the heaviest users of federal social services?

Which makes you... wrong.

[notmrgarrison]

I should alter what I said to "people stuck on federal assistance".