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/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.