2018 - the year the GOP came for our entitlements

[WHAMPOM]

It's not a big secret that Paul Ryan and GOP plan to cut spending on entitlement programs and its one of their hot ticket items for the new year. All working people paid into these programs yet the GOP acts like we aren't entitled to the programs that we were legally obligated to pay in to. How long do you thing it will take them to rape us again?

Edited for spelling.

"What good are healthcare, food and a home to live in if everybody can have them?" screams the more equal. Look up the proverb of the poor man invited to the rich man's feast.

 

[bshole]

There's a decent case that this is largely driven by racism. Low income whites often oppose social welfare spending based in significant part because they think it helps undeserving minorities, even though low income whites are the primary beneficiaries. This is how you end up with a place like West Virginia voting overwhelmingly to effectively cut its own throat.

There's some good research that indicates this kind of tribalism screws up the ability for the government to effectively provide a social safety net. There's also a lot of anecdotal evidence you can get just from looking at news reports on why people oppose social spending. It's very often because of some imagined lazy person scamming the system. When asked to describe those lazy people they sure sound a lot like black people.

Yea that about nails it. This is what you get a in a multi-cultural society. This is probably why other first world nations were able to become more socialized, they had less tribes. As whites in Europe begin to cede numbers to minority immigrants it will be interesting to see if their social safety net gets shredded.

 

[Puffnstuff]

"What good are healthcare, food and a home to live in if everybody can have them?" screams the more equal. Look up the proverb of the poor man invited to the rich man's feast.

They want it like Lazarus and the rich man where they give us their table scraps expecting for us to remain satisfied. When Jesus taught the parable of the rich man's banquet the well to do couldn't be bothered to attend and in the GOP's banquet they can't wait to take their place at the table.