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JohnnyRingo

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6. I love to argue this point with people.
Wed Nov 20, 2013, 11:35 AM
Nov 2013

Most who voice the opinion that we have to drug test people who get food subsidies are about my age... drug saavy male Baby Boomers turned TeaBag.

I first ask if they're just doing it to be mean to poor people they don't like. When they invariably answer that their only concern is that they're "spending money on drugs", I then ask if, in all their decades of experience, they've ever seen a girl pay for a line of cocaine. Then, while they're still wearing their stunned face, I ask if they've ever smoked pot with friends while someone stood there charging them a dollar a hit.

Not everyone who gets high spends their (or our) money on it, and proponents should prove they did. Otherwise, it's just another example of racist nastiness, and I love to expose those people for their real intent.

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