Words are failing. . .

[madamesilverspurs]

This showed up on my facebook page. It's probably one of the most inane things I've ever had the misfortune to read. That said, how do I possibly respond to it in a fashion that's comprehensible to the person who posted the thing? Ye gods.




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[Honeycombe8]

1. Sigh. What can you say to someone who thinks that way? Nothin'. They are lost. nt

[Turbineguy]

2. Yes, if you feed people dog food

they will learn to love it!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. since when is poverty comfortable? regardless of how one acquires it, still sucks. -

poverty created welfare NOT the other way around.

what a piss poor load of crap.

[liberal N proud]

4. The propaganda works with a certain number of idiots

They get pissed off that someone is getting something.

[Enrique]

5. ask them why they are talking about welfare

more than 10 years after it was mostly eliminated.

[rustydog]

6. This post is 100 percent correct. Corporations are people my friend

They get billions in incentives and they rspond to those by attacking the poor.

[Tsiyu]

7. Let me guess how they choose to "focus"

"Cut taxes for the wealthy, so they can hoard more cash and send us further into the poverty hole...I mean...so that they'll create jobs. Yeah. That's it!"

[jtuck004]

8. We paid the banksters about $37 billion in subsidies last year. Why aren't they in poverty? n/t?

[hay rick]

9. Pray that they lose their job and get first-hand knowledge of poverty.

Worst-case scenario: you learn something about the power of prayer.

[HughBeaumont]

10. AH, Republitarians . . . .

. . . . the only people who can make rhyme or reason out of the assertion that the working/unemployed poor will be "motivated by lower wages to work harder and harder and maybe get a second job so they can get out of their bad situation", while at the same time stating "If you raised taxes on the rich, why should they be motivated to reinvest in their businesses and create more jobs if the gubmint's just going to take their hard-earned wealth!?".

[RedStateLiberal]

11. Turn it around on them!

If you pay people to stay rich,
then more people will stay poor.

Corporations are people who respond to incentives.

And that's why corporate welfare increases affluence -
it literally pays people to stay above the middle class.

SHARE if you think we should focus on
growing the middle class and not just
making affluence more "comfortable".