I am really surprised at all the comments on here. There are people in this world who do need help and to mock them is horrible. No wonder people think we are the party of no compassion. This thread has proved their point.
Yes, some people do abuse the system, but there are legitimate people in need and really do need the help and to be ridiculed and called names is the most despicable things I have ever seen.
No, I am not on food stamps, but I know real families in need and the reaction I see here makes me embarrassed to be a conservative if this is how conservatives view their fellow human beings.
The problem is that food stamp abuse is running wild. The regime is actually paying people to recruit new users. Everybody can recount stories of blatant food stamp fraud. America has the fattest poor people in world history.
Ergo, those who deride welfare as a dehumanizing force pushing people into sin, or at least multiple repeated defects of character, are NOT, criticizing or minimizing the need for charity.
What a ridiculous post.
Yes, there are people who really do need them...but the fat pigs who ride around in the electric carts, their baskets filled to the top with EXPENSIVE, READY TO EAT FOOD and POP don’t.
If they bought whole fruits and veggies, raw meats and drank water from the tap (I do) their money (actually our money) would go a lot farther...and they might lose a few pounds and not stress Obamacare.
Points well taken.
The Bible DOES NOT SAY it’s ok to hate the poor as long as some of them are abusers or sinners.
Some of the comments here are just as despicable as the MSNBC comments, but in the opposite direction, though both utilize hate.
The only place I see things differently from you is I am not surprised to read the comments because I have been seeing them here for years.
People need to be fed, medicated, educated, clothed, and sheltered, and if we’re compassionate we’ll help them, but you get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right. There is great joy in helping people, but no joy in doing it at gunpoint."
Penn Jillette on compassion
This isn’t a Third World famine.
This is a 12-24 hr outage. Is every person shopping today leaving a completely empty refrigerator or pantry at home?
A can of beans. Peanut butter. Bread. Insert staple of choice here. I confidently predict every one of them will survive the night.
This is not the difference between living and dying, eating or not eating. This is the delay that millions of responsible people experience when there’s a snowstorm, when their flight is delayed, when the power fails, etc. They make due with what they have and delay their expectations and in turn their gratification.
The Gimme Gimme Gimme culture is as impatient as it is greedy. It fails to plan for contingencies. It faults others for its utter inability to think beyond its next meal - literally.