I can’t help but think that they must have passed a law against accepting government assistance when I wasn’t looking, judging by all the vitriol that is hurled at the class of people who would dare accept it. And please, if you’ve got a thought brewing that amounts to, “But theft is illegal! Those people steal my hard-earned money every day,” just let it pass.
We’re living in a new age of vilification of the lower classes — the malicious poor, the greedy needy, those dastardly welfare queens and kings.
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