No one should be working 35 hours a week and still be eligible for SNAP.
Very true.
And it's sad that probably half the population believe that those people working 35 hours a week our scumbags taking advantage of the system and believe their hard earned money is being taken away from them via taxes to subsidize these lazy people.
They don't see the issue that someone working at least 35 hours a week needs to be on SNAP benefits to get by. They see it as these people should work harder, get another job, make better financial decisions and what not rather than having their tax dollars being taken away to help these people get by.
It was great to see family last week but man was it hard to put up with them. They got into several heated political debates and I just tried to stay out of it. My views were never going to be accepted.
There was a lot of hate on immigrants and a lot of talk about people not working because they are lazy.
My mom, grandmother and aunt all grew up and lived in Amherst Massachusetts for years. Amherst has 5 colleges including the main campus for UMASS and is one of the libralist communities in Massachusetts.
My grandmother has been a lifelong democrat. Hated Bush and Reagan. But she put Donald Trump up on a pedestal, hates Biden and is going to register as a Republican now that she just moved to South Carolina. She is currently registered as a Democrat.
She's been retired since the late 90's and been living off of Social Security and her Pension since then. She constantly complains about living on a fixed income and not being able to afford the cost of living. She said Donald Trump was a smart businessman. Under Trump the economy was good, her taxes have never been lower and she was finally able to start saving up some money.
Under Biden she has "NO MONEY. She was yelling out "I HAVE NO MONEY" whenever talking about Biden came up. According to her Biden is a "crook" and it's his fault that the economy is bad now, that gas prices have gone up and that Trump's tax credits have expired.
My mother countered with it's not Biden's fault that the economy is down, it's Covids. And Trump did nothing about covid. This really angered my grandmother. And she went on and on about why can't you accept my view points rather than thinking about what my mother was saying. And my Grandmother said Trump did too manage COVID. He closed the borders.
Between my aunt and grandmother, there was a lot of hating on immigrants and a lot of talk about people being lazy and where are the workers.
For both of them the argument that jobs don't pay enough and there isn't affordable childcare holds no weight / is not the issue. The issue is people are paid more by unemployment to stay at home and sit on their asses. The workers are out there, they are just lazy.
Then they both went on and on about "illegals" and how they are taking all the jobs because Americans are lazy.
I also feel like they don't know what they are talking about. Both my grandmother and aunt kept hating on immigrants. My mother called them out on that our family is immigrants who came through Ellis Island (my grandmother's parents) and that my grandmother has a huge hanging wall picture of Ellis Island. Both my grandmother and aunt said that's different. They came over legally.
But I don't think they understand what they are talking about. Because they keep interchanging illegal immigrants with those with green cards working here legally as the same people. My aunt kept saying "I'm not racist, but" and blah blah blah about immigrants that work at her company.
One thing my aunt was deeply perturbed about was how some of her co workers (she's a regional safety manager for warehouses), have no idea what they are doing, have far less experience and less education make 80k more than her just because they are bilingual. And that all the workers on the floor only speak spanish and are from Mexico and Chile.
My aunt also believed in all the conspiracy theories and that Trump won the election. And that mail in ballots are complete fraud. That the government was just handing people ballots and telling them to vote. Countless illegals filled out ballots not to mention not everyone should be voting.
When I countered that there is no evidence found to support any of that she just countered with that's because the evidence was destroyed. Example, the explosion at the AT&T building in TN. The building housed electronic voting machines that were secured that were about to be forensically investigated for fraud. Biden got rid of the evidence...
Whatever you said trying to make counter points, you were either wrong or they were angry that you would not accept their views.
Got to love family.
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