"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
LBJ said that, and it still applies if you substitute "middle class" for "white" and "poor" for "black." Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, your fellow wage-slave isn't working as hard as you!
Food stamps are one of those things that conservatives attack that really get under my skin. People really depend on these programs so that they can live out their short but significant existence, and somehow they aren't entitled to it. The right is so unbelievably fucked up, that they turned "entitlement" into a curse word, and got the democrats to agree.
mofeus305 on June 9th, 2017 at 22:56 UTC »
They "earned" it.
ObsidianTK on June 9th, 2017 at 23:21 UTC »
LBJ said that, and it still applies if you substitute "middle class" for "white" and "poor" for "black." Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, your fellow wage-slave isn't working as hard as you!
munaught1 on June 9th, 2017 at 23:33 UTC »
Food stamps are one of those things that conservatives attack that really get under my skin. People really depend on these programs so that they can live out their short but significant existence, and somehow they aren't entitled to it. The right is so unbelievably fucked up, that they turned "entitlement" into a curse word, and got the democrats to agree.