Shocking FB rants, had to share

[holiday]

I just cannot believe what I read on facebook anymore. I usually refrain from fb political debates because it's not a proper format for a good debate and because some of these people are so far gone it would be a waste of my time.

But here is the status update:

"We have the fatest poor people on the planet. Only in America can you walk into a section 8 housing complex and see a flat screen tv hooked up to a PS2 and an Xbox 360 with more games than I have ever even dreamed of having, all while seeing 3 children running around with one screaming baby while mom talks on what looked like a smart phone. Did I mention how filthy the place was? Starving African children could only dream of having a life like that. Hell, just to have a roof over their heads would be a dream come true! Double Hell! I don't even have a smart phone or PS3! News flash for all you dope smoking, hippies out there. It is not how much money you make. It is how you spend the money you have... or in the case of "the rich 1%", How you save it!"

Here is one of the comments:

When the section 8 people are living my neighborhood...They are living the good life...IMO...No I dont live in even a nice place...But its worlds better than section 8 deserves. The section 8 people should live in the crappiest part of town, to promote getting off the system. Also they should have to get their needed supplies from a controlled facility that has no frills basics...The days of giving these assholes credit cards they can use at Wal-Mart, Kroger, the gas station and anywhere they feel like buying something should not be happening! The right to shop anywhere should only be if your buying your own way!!!


And another commment.. are you ready for this one:

The best thing we can do for the poor, is to keep them as uncomfortable as possible in it. Before welfare very few were homeless, or hungry. When left to our own devices, humans figure out how to provide for ourselves. As to the children... Take them from the dead beats, and put them in an orphanage. And the parents in a work house.



Exhibit A, B and C as to why as a Christian I'm not republican!

[LeftinOH]

1. "Before welfare very few were homeless or hungry." &^%$#*!! > :-(

[holiday]

2. I know right

I want to take these 3 people and study them in their natural habitat and then hook their brains up to brain mapping devices and see where this stuff is stored

[Blue_Tires]

10. The influence of talk radio has a long reach

I'm not even talking about the big-name nuts; EVERY single small market has some local loon spewing the same stuff

[oh08dem]

3. Sooo..

their plan is to put poor people in concentration camps?

I know that may sound extreme, but that's essentially what I'm reading here: Poor people are less than human.

[eyesroll]

4. Hm...only in America would you see "Section 8" housing at all.

"Section 8" refers to a section of United States law.

[polmaven]

5. As to your last comment...

I could not agree more. That type of hate is why this Christian could never be a Republican too.

[Citizen Worker]

6. I hear this same claptrap from a friend who brags about having an IQ of 154. Fed up with hearing

drivel oozing from the corners of her mouth I said, I think someone added a digit to your score. Which one was it, the 1 the 5 or the 4?

[Odin2005]

7. Sadly, there are a lot of very intelligent people who are absolute assholes.

Just because somebody has a high IQ does not mean they are able to think outside of the box.

[GoCubsGo]

17. IQ of 154, my fat ass.

She probably did some bogus Internet IQ test to get that number. I have never once met a person of high intelligence ever even once mention their IQ. And, I know LOTS of really, really smart people.

[zinnisking]

21. Yep. The biggest braggers I know in real life are the biggest phonies.

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[L0oniX]

9. I just heard the same BS from a coworker ..I said that only a stupid fucker would say that shit.

Maybe he will STFU and quit thinking he can just say that shit around me.

[closeupready]

11. It's funny how these likely 20-year-olds know what life was like in the 1920's,

'before welfare', lol. Did you know that during that era, 'very few were homeless, or hungry'? :rofl: :eyes:

[LeftinOH]

12. I remember my grandfather scowling at any of us kids when we picked at our food-

and he'd always say "when I was a kid, I would've been happy just to have what you're not eating." At the time, it went right over our heads, but he wasn't kidding.

[closeupready]

13. He was probably a liberal though. (Thus, confirming the original rant.)

:sarcasm: ;)

[Johonny]

14. Once you understand that you can do everything "right"

in American society and still end up in the 99 %, is the sooner you learn to not think like conservatives want you to think and not to vote conservative. You can be smart, hard working, industrious, a saver, and investor... and yet you still can end up poor, end up with shrinking salaries, end up with never ending medical expenses, end up bankrupt, foreclosed. The people angry at the system understand you can do all the right things people tell you are the right things, but you still don't "win". The system is gamed against you, and when corporations do the very things this person imagines poor people do, the government comes to save them with your tax dollars. They don't come to save you, they don't work to keep you out of jail.

[MilesColtrane]

15. That's just one reason I'm not on Facebook.

Life is a constant struggle to control the amount of daily stupidity and avarice to which you are exposed.

Reading most Facebook postings is a way to lose that battle every time.

[Quantess]

16. I have to admit, #1 has some legitimate beefs.

The USA does have a lot of obese poor people, that's completely true! Poor people tend to be just as materialistic as everyone else. Some parents really should have used birth control instead. Not everyone is a wise shopper. Some people just aren't very smart. Some people are pigs about littering and are too lazy to clean up after themselves. There is truth in ALL of that.

However, those people also get the shit end of the stick, so to speak, every day of their lives. This is a symptom of being American. I don't feel like taking my anger out on the already downtrodden. The poor people that I referenced above are no less worthy than many filthy rich bloodsuckers are.

[Ikonoklast]

18. I knew a person that owned a cleaning service.

You should have heard some of the stories she told about some of her client's houses...really, really wealthy people, who lived like slobs.

She said that many of the upper middle-clas houses she cleaned looked like someone already cleaned them before she her crews got there, and lots of the wealthier clientele just left things lay where they fell on the floor.

People are people, some slobs, some not.

[GoCubsGo]

20. Yep.

We have lots of 'em like that at my town. One of them spilled her water bottle during a class at the gym and just left it. When the instructor asked her to wipe it up, she just said, "We have the help do that." The instructor and another person in the class wound up wiping up her mess while she just watched. And, I can't tell you how many times I have seen someone in a BMW or Lexus tossing their trash out the window. These are people that have bumper stickers on their luxury cars that say, "Poverty is owning a horse." I shit you not.

[GoCubsGo]

19. There is more to it than that.

I agree there is an element of not being a wise shopper, and that cuts across all classes. But, have you ever tried to shop on a really, really tight budget? Most of the really cheap food is starchy, processed crap, like cheap, fatty cold cuts and Hamburger Helper. And, white rice and pasta. It's all stuff that will make a person fat in the blink of an eye. Yes, one can make a healthy meal out of things like dried beans and other scratch items. But, how many people of any class know how to do that these days? They don't teach Home Economics in school any more. And, how many people who DO know how to scratch cook teach it to their kids? I'd love it if those who got food aid had to take smart-shopping and healthy cooking classes. But, hiring the teachers to do that costs money, and those sanctimonious fucks on Facebook would never agree to spending "their hard earned money" on such a thing.