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sigh This again? > The problem isn’t rich people. It’s looters and moochers, regardless of their income. This is the economic version of responding to "Black
by pdkl95 11y ago
sigh This again?
> The problem isn’t rich people. It’s looters and moochers, regardless of their income.
This is the economic version of responding to "Black Lives Matter" by insisting that "All Lives Matter". Yes, there are terrible people in every sufficiently large demographic. That's just human nature.
However, just like how saying "all lives matter" ignores[1] how racism is still a problem that most black people face every day, insisting that we shouldn't focus on the rich and instead target all "looters and moochers" is saying we shouldn't look at problems like the growing wealth gap[2] and the institutionalized corruption that is making those problems worse.
Besides, the idea that a few people (it's NOT a significant amount - certainly not "millions") scamming California's food stamp program out of $189/month (if single) or $632/month (family of four) are somehow responsible for any of our economic problems is no only pure fantasy, some might call this kind of false accusation class warfare.
Billions are scammed in the name of "defense" and it's hard to even quantify the damage done by the numerous "finance games" invented in the last few decades, yet somehow we're not supposed to focus on those problems and consider a wave of welfare fraud (without any real evidence it even exists) as the same kind of problem?
"...ain't the same [fsck]in' ballpark,
it ain't the same league,
it ain't even the same [fsck]in' sport."
[1] https://www.reddit.com/comments/3du1qm/ https://www.reddit.com/comments/3du1qm/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_in_the_United_States#/media/File:Productivity_and_Real_Median_Family_Income_Growth_1947-2009.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_in_the_Unite...