I wanted to take a minute to examine this picture I have
seen going around. This is nothing
against the person who posted it or of those for who this may be true. It is an examination of how this argument is
often used.
Something like this is often brought up in response to a conservative talking about reforming the program or cutting the budget. The intent is often to paint anyone who is for reform of the program as mean spirited cruel bigoted individuals who want people to starve and making grandma choose between having electricity or eating dog food. This statement is just as bigoted as it claims the other side is.
This argument is also used to stamp down and mute out the truth about the massive fraud and abuse that IS in the program. Because someone points out that truth is not them calling every individual on food stamps names or stereotyping them. It is people who wish to truly help the people who need help and don’t like that help being abused by those who do not need it. We are not going to be able to help anybody if we keep going further into debt, in part, because the conditions are made to force people onto a program and then secondly that the program is not policed to prevent the fraud and abuse from occurring.
Maybe it is not popular to stand up to this sort of message, but it is the truth. What we need to do is set the conditions for people to get off of food stamps by having jobs. By more people having jobs, we will have a larger tax base to help those who are still in need. We need to balance the budget and pay off the debt. If we keep borrowing we will go bankrupt and won’t be able to help anybody. We need to stop giving away money we don’t have to people who don’t like us and use that to help our own. We need to begin teaching biblical morality to our children so that people will be a little more responsible as adults and there won’t be such a high crime rate that keeps jobs away from the cities and poorer areas.
Those things are not bigoted statements or stereotyping. They are reality. Until people began grasping those realities and implementing them, we will go bankrupt and everyone will be stealing from their neighbor just to survive. Instead we stereotype those people as being bigoted and accuse them of stereotyping the poor. There is not much time left before this house of cards falls down and there will not be any assistance or opportunity for success for anyone.
Something like this is often brought up in response to a conservative talking about reforming the program or cutting the budget. The intent is often to paint anyone who is for reform of the program as mean spirited cruel bigoted individuals who want people to starve and making grandma choose between having electricity or eating dog food. This statement is just as bigoted as it claims the other side is.
This argument is also used to stamp down and mute out the truth about the massive fraud and abuse that IS in the program. Because someone points out that truth is not them calling every individual on food stamps names or stereotyping them. It is people who wish to truly help the people who need help and don’t like that help being abused by those who do not need it. We are not going to be able to help anybody if we keep going further into debt, in part, because the conditions are made to force people onto a program and then secondly that the program is not policed to prevent the fraud and abuse from occurring.
Maybe it is not popular to stand up to this sort of message, but it is the truth. What we need to do is set the conditions for people to get off of food stamps by having jobs. By more people having jobs, we will have a larger tax base to help those who are still in need. We need to balance the budget and pay off the debt. If we keep borrowing we will go bankrupt and won’t be able to help anybody. We need to stop giving away money we don’t have to people who don’t like us and use that to help our own. We need to begin teaching biblical morality to our children so that people will be a little more responsible as adults and there won’t be such a high crime rate that keeps jobs away from the cities and poorer areas.
Those things are not bigoted statements or stereotyping. They are reality. Until people began grasping those realities and implementing them, we will go bankrupt and everyone will be stealing from their neighbor just to survive. Instead we stereotype those people as being bigoted and accuse them of stereotyping the poor. There is not much time left before this house of cards falls down and there will not be any assistance or opportunity for success for anyone.
2 comments:
Great insight, fair and objective, very well written. When Goshen Media becomes a profitable endeavor, the Goshen Gazette will be seeking this caliber of quality journalism.
So often we are afraid to face the problems and speak up because we know that there will be an attack that we are racist or stereotyping someone. No no no no - we just want to make things better for everyone. Any yes we do have hearts and souls but we have to admit there are social programs that need fixing.
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