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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
oh, i get it. because someone didn't bring in signed affidavits, sworn on some sort of bible, testified in a court of law, broadcast it in the media, it obviously doesn't fucking happen. Because I see someone in a grocery store line using food stamps to buy milk, bread, and cereal while wearing more gold chains that Mr. T, leather jackets that cost as much as two months of my car payment, and load those groceries up in a Lexus to take home to a run down trailer park, I should just assume that they know how to manage their finances or some stupid shit. get fucking real for a change.
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1- Ever hear of confirmation bias?
2- This idea that welfare recipients are somehow all swimming in cash is beyond ludicrous and poorly evidenced. Anyone who knows how much people on welfare actually get, and how many requirements and regulations there are for actually getting welfare, would know how cases of abuse of the system are so few and far between.
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Originally Posted by powerclown
You people come fly in to Detroit this weekend and I'll take you on The Tour, as my ex-fellow employees used to joke about. Block after block of neigborhoods with cars worth 1/3 to 1/2 the cost of the houses they were parked in front of. I'm not saying they're all owned by welfare kings and queens; there's probably a middle manager or boss' kid in their somewhere...
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Unless you somehow know how many of these people actually are on welfare, or are paying for these cars with welfare checks, the ratio of car price/ house price is really irrelevant, unless you think it is your place to legislate how others spend money.