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Originally posted by ClashAndBurn
Not quite. He tried to compare entitlements and handouts to free school lunches, saying that real people didn't want handouts (free school lunches) over self-sustainability (lunch brought from home).
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But his phrasing was completely hyperbolic and offensive, ie: "empty souls".
Not to mention that the very policies that he wants to push through want to defund welfare and aid before helping people get to a place where they can become self-sustainable.
You take away funding for entitlements (ie: SNAP, Section 8, Medicaid) and put it into failing fiscal policies (ie: trickle down economics, thinking rich people can only stimulate the economy) in an atmosphere where people don't make enough as is (and Reps want to lower minimum wages) - you're not going to get people "feeling fulfilled". They're going to be emotionally exhausted along with now starving, homeless, or sick.
There's totally a conversation to have about how poor people feel like outcasts in society and ashamed of their realities, but much of what he preaches (classism) causes those feelings of shame and embarrassment. He's one of the figures in DC causing the most suffering for the poor.
Not to claim you're defending him. I just don't get how anyone can.
