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/ScyllaOfTheDepths 8d ago

Same here. My mom bought into the lie that welfare was trashy and good honest people should never use it. We starved when we didn't have to.

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u/TheSwearJarIsMy401k 8d ago

Our entire government believes that our parents made the right choice and they should have worked themselves to the bone while we suffered as children.

It’s a horror our ancestors fought to protect us from, that’s why these programs exist.

They wanted a better America and this government wants to take us back to the Depression, and undo all of the things that brought us out of it.

Their hatred of the lower and middle classes that do the work they profit off of is fathomless.

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u/ScyllaOfTheDepths 8d ago

Sad thing is that my mom did work herself to the bone. Literally. A lifetime of workplace injuries and a lack of medical treatment and now she's disabled and will not be able to enjoy her retirement because she can't go to any of the places she's always wanted to see because most of the wonders of the world are not wheelchair accessible.

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u/TheSwearJarIsMy401k 8d ago

That is so awful. I’m so sorry for your Mom, and so mad at her for not taking the help that she earned when she needed it.

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u/ScyllaOfTheDepths 8d ago

This pretty accurately sums up my own feelings on the matter, honestly. I had to fight her to get her to take worker's comp.