When I Hear People Talk about Welfare

Harrekin said:

Yeah, youre really gonna try say that to a guy who has known a multitude of people who have purposely had children to guarantee a cheque weekly and basically free housing (in private housing areas)? Don't bullshit me with your propaganda, socialism is stealing from some to pay the lazy so they vote for you.

EDIT: As I said before, I support optional social insurance to help people who have paid in but fall upon bad times, but "welfare entitlement" in countries that have it has become generational man. This is fact, you can't dispute it.

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Who you gonna believe, Mame/UncleBuck, or your own lying eyes?

NLXSK1 said:

I just wrote the words in front of your face.

The government repeatedly telling black people that they are entitled to things.

Edit: It is not just the government...

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i provided you a counterexample: i am white and the government tells me i am entitled to stuff as well.

you'll never live down your racist statements (i know you have an extremely narrow definition of racist, so read 'bigoted' if need be).

UncleBuck said:

i provided you a counterexample: i am white and the government tells me i am entitled to stuff as well.

you'll never live down your racist statements (i know you have an extremely narrow definition of racist, so read 'bigoted' if need be).

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Ok... so your logic is that because the government tells both white and black people that they are entitled but it doesnt affect you then it cannot be a factor?

Seriously?

When I "Hear People talk about welfare",,,I think of free cheese and milk,,,,Where the fuck is my bread and butter!!!

You know who has an entitlement mentality? Me. Ever since before I even went to my first deployment to the sandbox, I was getting praise I didn't deserve. I'm not saying some service members don't deserve the praise and admiration they get, but I didn't. I realized that it was only because I was associated with a group that society has given a strata in the socio-economic caste that I was damn near exalted. It had a huge effect on me. It was a model I could never live up to. It was something I didn't even ask for. It was so much like racism in so many ways. I think that for me, in a lot of ways that artificial glory was just as bad as if people had been afraid of me just because I was black or gay. It was discriminatory, absolutely. I think caste systems are still hard wired into human cultural patterns. Even our language has entitlement and a superiority complex built right into the pronouns, if you overstand what I mean.

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Forced redistributuion of money or goods and services that you don't own is participating in theft, whether it is "legal" or not doesn't matter. Making something legal does not always equate with making something just.