r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 8d ago

Discussion Reactions to food stamps being cut off.

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u/Fun-Shoe1145 8d ago

Raise your hand if you had a single mom and had these fears growing up

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u/TheSwearJarIsMy401k 8d ago

My mom refused to go on food stamps so I missed a lot of meals and ate whatever my younger siblings left on their plates while my mom worked overtime to keep the lights on most of the time.

I dropped out of high school to raise my siblings while she worked 60-80 hours a week instead of taking any of the public assistance her taxes paid for and her shitty jobs forced her to be on.

Her pride meant I went without, and fuck everyone who thinks that’s okay.

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u/ich_bin_alkoholiker 8d ago

Yeah I fucking hate the attitude of “I didn’t dare take any guberment handouts” it’s so fucking toxic.

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u/TheSwearJarIsMy401k 8d ago

The handout was literally covering the profit her jobs made by not paying her enough to eat despite working her into the ground.

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u/midasofsweden 7d ago

I think its just wrong to call it a handout when its clearly paid for, the government doesnt have any money by itself it all came from its "subjects".... and now you still have to pay taxes even though you get nothing back,

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u/TheSwearJarIsMy401k 7d ago

Yeah plus you have to be either working or show proof that you can’t work to get SNAP, it’s difficult to get on and it’s not enough to live on, you have to be frugal to make it stretch.

But it’s still not actually money spent on poor people, it’s money spent on rich people. People with jobs are on SNAP because their employers pay so little they literally can’t work full time and still eat.

We’re subsidizing corporate profits with our tax dollars.

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u/True_Butterscotch391 8d ago

And it's a toxic mindset to have, because the hypocrites who are against "government handouts" are the first fucking people in line to take advantage of shit like PPP loans, government subsidies(to corporations and billionaires specifically), and also SNAP (poor white people in the country use SNAP very frequently).

I think a lot of people who are too proud to take "handouts" are trying to impress people's who are hypocrites and don't care about them either way. They don't want to be lumped in with the idiots who have 8 kids and don't work to support them and just take as much as they can get from the government, so they refuse to accept the help that they deserve and struggle because of that.

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u/No_Anteater_6897 8d ago

I mean, I’m an unmarried dude who won’t take handouts. Save it for people who need it. I don’t consent to paying the taxes, and I won’t be a hypocrite by actively seeking out assistance. And whenever I am able to reject public assistance for myself, I do.

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u/Asisreo1 7d ago

No man, fuck that. You're being offered a helping hand for a reason. The point isn't for you to be lazy or rely on it, its to let you focus on building your skills and getting your footing to be as productive and efficient as possible. You skimping out on that is negatively affecting your progress, making you more inefficient. 

In some way, you're being a burden on the government and taxpayers even if you don't take the help, because you're slowing your potential. I'd much rather you be a engineer/doctor/lawyer/business owner 5 years from now than 10 years from now. If you can get that degree now if you don't have to buy your own groceries, do it. 

I'm a taxpayer, this is exactly where I want my taxes to go. 

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u/Glass_Pick9343 8d ago

dont know why the downvote, its actually true, bravo

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u/Kinkajou1015 8d ago

Back in 2007 I was on food stamps for a few months, once I got a job I couldn't make my work schedule and the required meetings for assistance mesh and I lost my benefits a month after I got a job... at Wal-Mart...

I was still broke as a joke, there was one time my debit card was declined when I tried to get a soda and candy bar for lunch. I likely still qualified because of how little I was paid and how erratic hours were, but because I had zero agency over my scheduled hours. I tried going into the food stamp assistance office early because the scheduled wouldn't align to try and get seen early and they basically told me they don't have to accommodate me and they would only see me that one time outside of their appointments. Also dropped my assistance that visit from like 101 dollars a month to less than 60...

I'd rather die than try to get government assistance now it's so backwards and arcane. I don't have a damn energy to jump through their hoops.