And we want YOU to know, you Victimhood Champion wanna-be, that we don't care to join in on that - along with everyone else in the nation - just because you learned the wrong lesson in childhood.
Isn't it amazing her immediate victimhood response? I wasn't cutting anybody down who waited in those lines, I was merely pointing out how pathetic and embarrassing it was for people to have to be doing that to eat in this country.
After my father's first major stroke, my parents and I had to get some charity food boxes to get by until my mom and I could get things on a better footing. We never bothered with the government boxes, because we didn't have time to waste on making government assistance our full-time job. While we were certainly grateful to the people who donated to help us, the lesson I learned was NOT how wonderful it is to have others take care of you; it was how hard a decent person works to stop needing the help.
Debbie Dumbass learned the wrong lesson.
There is nothing wrong with getting help if you truly need it. I need it now. The problem is people who take advantage of it, and the politicians who pander to those people for votes.
Of course there's nothing wrong with getting it if you need it. The contents of the food boxes we got were donated voluntarily by people who wanted to help their community. That's what community is FOR. And I was very grateful it was there to help us get back on our feet. As an adult, I have donated generously to church and community groups to give the same help to others.
However, I believe the true mark of successful charity is whether it encourages and enables people to not need it any more. And the bulk of my admiration was not for the "wonders" of handouts, as Debbie Dumbass's seems to be; it was for my parents and their determination to work themselves out of a bad situation.
To me, the most striking difference between the right and the left in this country is that the right assumes people will succeed, whereas the left assumes they will fail.
They also live by the code of penalizing success and rewarding failure.
People years go had more pride. They only took charity if it was their last measure of hope. People did want to work out of that situation because the help they received was little. Today, we have people in the grocery store lines asking other customers if they could buy your food using their SNAP's card, and at the end of checkout, you give them cash for your items back. Unlike years ago, no shame at all. They do it proudly.
When taxpayers experience enough of these events or otherwise hear of them, they get angered. If you dare take a stance on it, they call you selfish, greedy, uncaring. I've been in line with these food stamp people. I never had children because of the expense. Yet those 300 lbs mothers are in the grocery store are there with four kids, I'm sure they could never afford, they get into a late model SUV after loading all those food stamp groceries in it.
