If I can't have a pension and decent benefits why should they?

[suffragette]

40. You raise a good point

It's the same thought process I've noted in discussions about single payer when people say why should they pay for a smoker, or someone who is overweight or anyone with any habit of which the person disapproves to receive health care.

It's also the same thought process going on when people eye the purchases of someone using food stamps or cards to single out the item(s) that is "extravagant" in their mind to argue against such welfare benefits.

Reagan and his crew used it in promulgating his false "welfare queen" stereotype in order to lay groundwork for decimating social services.

Koch and crew (their crew including the politicians they've bought) are using it just as you note.


I think it has to be countered head on and the comparison should be drawn blatantly to the actual services the public servants provide (and which the super wealthy funding this shit also benefit from to make all the money they're spending on this) and the lack of public good and damage done by the wealthy backers of this. Also, needs to be countered directly by defining us together as "we."