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NutmegYankee

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13. Extreme cruelty.

Sat Sep 21, 2013, 04:40 PM

Sep 2013

I was in a big debate with a few co-workers over this. They were raising hell about fraud at first. I countered that fraud is historically no more than 5%, and that corruption losses in any system is a given. Just like no thermal system is 100% efficient, no human system is free from losses either. (we're all engineers) Then one guy moved onto how he was sick of paying for the lazy. He said they needed to get jobs and I countered with employment facts. I lashed into him pretty good. I drove him off but he highlighted the "Don't give a fuck about them" attitude of the right pretty well.

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Paul Krugman: Cutting Successful SNAP Program "An Awesome Combination of Ignorance And Cruelty" [View all] Hissyspit Sep 2013 OP

Dr Krugman nails it again...K & R..nt Wounded Bear Sep 2013 #1

Ignorance and cruelty pretty much sums up pscot Sep 2013 #2

Fascism cannot exist in an environment free from cruelty and intollerance. Enthusiast Sep 2013 #17

The entire debate is simplistic. Igel Sep 2013 #3

More cruelty than ignorance. hobbit709 Sep 2013 #4

Hear, hear! Demeter Sep 2013 #7

Warren / Krugman 2016 !!!!! nt Cryptoad Sep 2013 #5

I could do that! :) nt silvershadow Sep 2013 #6

Not ignorance Dr. Krugman, just inhumanely dispensing diabolical cruelty indepat Sep 2013 #8

It is not ignorance, it is 100% cruelty. alfredo Sep 2013 #9

it is 100% cruelty noiretextatique Sep 2013 #20

I call them assholes alfredo Sep 2013 #21

me too noiretextatique Sep 2013 #22

It's the outword show of, BillyRibs Sep 2013 #10

Republicans have conviced their Base that the country's finacial crisis is due to welfare spending.. Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2013 #11

Right Idea, Paul, however I see the repukes as spiteful, aware of the pain they are inflictiing drynberg Sep 2013 #12

Extreme cruelty. NutmegYankee Sep 2013 #13

Thankyou Mr. Kugman Nika Sep 2013 #14

K&R for Krugman calling out the Ignorance! Cha Sep 2013 #15

K&R Enthusiast Sep 2013 #16

SNAP was got through Congress by George McGovern and Bob Dole muriel_volestrangler Sep 2013 #18

K&R Solly Mack Sep 2013 #19