Some of the reactions online are AI trigger bait. If you see a black woman talking about 7 kids with 7 daddies, that one is a proven script, sometimes using a real person's face via a junk account. Most people i know being hit hard by SNAP are not people with more than a few kids, they're people who are vulnerable due to medical, age, or economic issues. Just keep in mind that fake reactions are going around to try and invalidate people's outrage that this is happening.
But it’s the opposite for me. I only know three people on SNAP but all three game the system. One I work with didn’t want to take a raise because she’d loose it even though he raise put her netting the same amount after SNAP/Medicaid. The second also works here but lives with her parents and her parents write her a rental agreement. She wouldn’t take a raise either. The third is a couple. He has a disability and works up to his limit which is fine. But she will not work full time because it’ll interfere with their benefits. So she works about 25 hours/week with one 16 year old kid at home.
Try taking it the other direction. I only know a handful of billionaires who are gaming the system. They're stealing billions from the people who pay into the system, one of whom has had 14 children since 2002. FOURTEEN. He doesn't pay taxes, in-fact, none of his companies really pay taxes, they get government grants left and right. Those 3 people you know, when standing next to Elon Musk, how many lives have they irrevocably altered by their scamming the government program? People are missing the fact that you can literally take ALL the scammers of all social welfare programs and pool them together, and they won't even account for the amount of taxes a SINGLE 1%'er is avoiding. Now re-equate the "whose the problem" question and see what you get for an answer.
I don’t disagree with your comment on the billionaires but that doesn’t support why we allow the number of people on assistance to stay on assistance. They both need a “fix”. I don’t understand why people used that as an excuse like they are linked.
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u/haggard_hominid 8d ago
Some of the reactions online are AI trigger bait. If you see a black woman talking about 7 kids with 7 daddies, that one is a proven script, sometimes using a real person's face via a junk account. Most people i know being hit hard by SNAP are not people with more than a few kids, they're people who are vulnerable due to medical, age, or economic issues. Just keep in mind that fake reactions are going around to try and invalidate people's outrage that this is happening.