On Food Stamps and Disability Benefits

[bread_and_roses]

94. At you? Not intended.

Looking at the sequence I see how it reads that way and apologize. When I read your comment it I understood you to be saying that only under such a requirement was there any hope of getting an increase in benefits. I don't happen to agree with you on the merits of the idea as a tactic, but an increase surely would be a good thing and I did not take you to be poor-bashing but rather miserliness/judgementalism bashing.

My response was directed to the general comment in the post I responded to - it's not in front of me now so can't remember the exact wording - but something about the smugness of those complaining about what poor people buy with benefits.

Again, I apologize if reads as if directed at you. My fury over the classism, bigotry, ignorance, smugness, and profound authoritarianism of those who would control the very food "the poor" would put in their own mouths makes me literally see red, and not careful enough about clarity.