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Originally Posted by Delkaetre
There is no winning. If you have no money, but use your food stamps to buy healthy food, you are condemned for daring to eat better than other people. If you have no money and no access to good food, you are condemned for using your food stamps to buy junk, eating poorly and developing health problems. I just don't understand this ongoing demonisation of the fat, the poor, welfare recipients, the variously disadvantaged...
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I read that article the other day sure. It was brilliant. The same attitude that your speaking about is the same one that currently is fighting national healthcare in the states. People think Ireland has begrudgers, America is rampant with them. For some yet to be determined reason people are taught from a young age to hate their neighbors, especially if they are not as successful as themselves.
People in a lower social strata are looked down upon. If someone in a level above them sees them having something they do not, they immediately attack them.
It's sad actually. I blame it on the lack of community combined with the police state tactics they employ to fill prisons. I mean, I lived in the states for 16 years in a few different states. Other than casually waving at my next door neighbor on occasion, that was the extended sense of community I had. People do not get to know the guy next door. People just do not interact like they do in other places. Because of that, its easy to say screw the poor, even if it means the people living around me, because they really do not know them.
This accompanied by the 'war on drugs' where they have encouraged everyone in the country and brainwashed them into thinking the government knows best and you must rat out your neighbors. I mean, they even have TV shows like Americas Most Wanted encouraging people to call up and inform on their fellow countrymen. You rarely see that sort of behaviour
anywhere else in the world. I mean, it really destroys the sense of community when you encourage people to go around and intentionally try to ruin the lives of fellow citizens who have done nothing to harm anyone.
But I don't want to go off on a tangent here.
Yes, good article, and it is sad how people in America do attack their fellow countrymen when they should be happy to see someone finding a way to better themselves and their family.