You know what’s mad. My brother in law on benefits blames other people on different benefits
Disabled veteran relative who gets mad about other disabled people parking in handicap parking…
They should have ten different levels of handicap parking passes and then we could watch them all fight.
Bumper cars style, no weapons, just wheels.
My step dad, on disability for his knees, yelling about single mothers getting food stamps.
This is just the Matrix working as intended.
Probably a lot of internal shame being projected, and when he gets on his feet he’s probably going to feel guilty for a long time.
I was on the dole for a while and they do everything to make you feel like a criminal just for needing help. After I started paying taxes again I realised the the unproductive toxicity of my thinking.
Normally I’d agree with you but he’s been on the bru all his days. Not lazy per say but the second he sees the deduction column of the wage slip he finds excuses to quit.
When he was diagnosed with osteoarthritis he acted like he hit the jackpot.
Oh yeah, I’ve hit the jackpot, too. Full disability benefits that barely pay for my rent and utilities, but I have to choose between food and meds. All it costs me is constant diarrhoea, vomiting, seizures, fainting, and debilitating pain so I can’t leave the house.
Totally worth giving up the nearly six-figure career I absolutely adored doing. -.-
(Sorry, not aimed at you but at your family member and others with that attitude. It’s the opposite of what many of us want, but we have no other choice.)
Vent away. It does my head in too
Like a tortoise without a shell on.
Same as the immigrants aren’t stealing your job, the greedy capitalist are giving those jobs to immigrants to cut down their bottom line, and they love nothing more when you blame the immigrants.
Immigrants spend less on frivolous bullshit and send money to other countries. Businesses lose out on that end, especially tech companies and wealthy industries.
Manufacturing and manual labor jobs love immigrants because they can pay them minimum wage for horrible working conditions compared to your typical minimum wage 3rd+ generation white worker.
3rd+ generation white worker.
I’m not sure this is how it works. But I don’t live in US.
The answer is a) illegally, or b) the company making use of temporary foreign worker programs. The TFW programs have absurdly little oversight and you can generally treat the workers like chattel slaves.
I mean “3rd+ generation white” part
Happens in the UK too, widespread enough that my local government employs immigrant workers for below minnimum wage.
Same shit in certain biggest country btw
I mean “3rd+ generation white” part
“Benefits” is a grotesque use of the word. Whoever came up with the idea of calling social security “Benefits” is an evil genius.
there’s nothing inherently wrong with the word “benefits” anyway. It’s a positive word. people have come to villianize the word, associating it with those who mooch off the government. But no. benefits are not a bad thing, and people who receive them are not bad people. I agree with the John krasinski meme up there. Rich people are the enemy. poor people are the victims and deserve all the “benefits” they can possibly get.
edit: changed the word “demonize” to “villainize” which was on the tip of my tongue but it took me two days for the right word to come to me. I’m quite pleased with my brain for finally getting it. That’s why I’m including this loquacious edit.
Implies benefits for doing or being able to do no work. Insensitive and inflamatory.
‘Welfare’ and ‘income assistance’ are terms more commonly used in Australia.
And the irony is that “I pulled myself up by my bootstraps” literally used to be an idiom about blatantly lying that you did something impossible before the boomers appropriated it.
Can we see a version that reads “the rich refusing the pay their fair share…”?
Make the memes you wanna see in the world!
Thank you…
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That and they’re working on every way to drain you tax money too
Infuriating video about mounjaro weight loss shots potentially bankrupting medicaid: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UrjAhDQKpS0&pp=ygUieW91dHViZSBtb3VuamFybyBiYW5rcnVwdCBtZWRpY2FpZA%3D%3D
“Ever wonder why big car companies pay two percent tax while the guys on the assembly line pay forty?”
Damn. Genuine hats off! xD
That good shit.
fuck yeah. This is the dumbest shit. Allowing entrenched media structures, virtually always owned by corporate interests, to shape who the boogeyman is. Tip: it’s never the corporate interests who control the entrenched media structures.
I pulled myself up by my bootstraps. Of course, I was privileged enough to actually have boots with straps. It seems fewer and fewer people have these anymore and that’s a damn shame.
True
Can grab those bootstraps if you can’t afford boots 🤷♂️
Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps is physically impossible, so having boots or not doesn’t change the circumstances.
Thanks for the link. The perfidy of contorting the meaning from an impossible task to something everyone should be able to do is sickening. But I’m not surprised.
It’s a figure of speech. And I was saying that you can’t get ahead in life without a living wage. Kinda surprised you didn’t understand that. Hmmm.
I did understand what you mean and rejected it. Life is not about money and personal gain.
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Sadly, not entirely true. When too many people have to depend on welfare money because rich people demand too much rent and pay too low wages, then everyone will get less.
But it’s still rich people’s fault so it’s the same picture.
This.
Technically, welfare is an expense, but, it:
a)is caused by the economic situation caused by the rich; b)makes people more economically secure, thereby improving, for everyone, the salary negotiating power and ability to build new enterprises, which return money to the economy; c)may save you personally if things turn south. And they always can.
All that right-wing bullshit about economic freedom and not having to pay for losers has been disproven two centuries ago, yet people prefer to listen to talking heads that will never mention this nuance.
True when everyone is desperate it is bad for everyone who knew 🤷♂️.
I support welfare for people who are willing to help themselves.
I’d be fine with giving free housing to people who work at least 32 hours per week, hit the gym and take care of themselves.
People being on benefits maybe.
I’ve had occasion in my life to spend some time around people who are on benefits because of mental health and drug abuse, and some of those persons were a nightmare to deal with, and absolutely affected my life negatively. Many conditions that put people on benefits also make them very unpleasant to be around. The key is to understand that they would still be difficult to deal with if they weren’t on benefits, and desperation would only make them more of a nuisance.
Sounds like they don’t have enough benefits.
There are problems no amount of money can solve
Not everything can be fixed easily, but money will go a long way towards supporting and alleviating pretty much any problem.
I take it you’ve never met a rich asshole, then?
Just because an asshole doesn’t want to fix their shit doesn’t mean they don’t have the ability. It’s much easier with money than without.
Precisely. Some people are hostile, rude and inconsiderate and no amount of money will make them nice
This is a hilarious take considering the Bedlam unfolding in Dublin tonight.
Scumbags living their entire lives on some of the most generous benefits in Europe decide to burn the city because… ? Racism?
Nothing to do with Billionaires.
Just generational scumbags trying to 1up their parents.
Get a grip.
After checking the news it only mentions that the protests were due to children being stabbed?
I don’t know if there was a rumour that the suspect was a non-white person, or just that the stabbing of multiple people resembles that of an Islamic terrorist attack, but all the rioters appear to be pushing anti-immigration rhetoric (which usually directly translates as anti-POC/Islamic immigration rhetoric).
Rightwingers aren’t people. They’re lucky beating them in public still counts as a crime.
