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Where are you coming up with these percentages and absolutes?
If you make a grand statement like this, be able to provide some facts to back it up.
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Originally Posted by Quick Enough
if you are going to make a claim, "according to most conservatives, 99.9% of the poor do game the system.", you have to back it up. IF you can.
he cant back up those numbers, and he wont either. his response to me when i called him on it is below.
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Originally Posted by mackinac81
I'm not speaking for anyone except myself, and I'm making an observation based on my years of interactions with conservatives.
It's called hyperbole, but I'm illustrating a serious point. In all my conversations with conservatives--and I mean all of them--it's clear that they don't really believe in such a thing as the "working poor". According to them, there might be one or two people in this country who are strugging to get by, but basically poor people are all just lazy, or somehow deserved whatever misfortune/sickness/whatever happened to them. There is a LOT of disdain for the poor among the right. It's really disturbing.
My number was mistaken. Maybe I should have said "100%"
. You are talking about attitudes, not political philosophies. I can understand your frustration. I do not understand what all of this has to do with so-called cold-hearted conservatives.
Social Security treats people with extreme suspicion and denies them for technicalities. This is totally unlike my friend's experience in Australia dealing with disability: she got on disability in a couple weeks due to serious depression due to PTSD.
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