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What’s More Compassionate for the Poor, Dependency or Self-Reliance?

I’ve written a couple of times about the Food Stamp program, citing ridiculous examples of waste, fraud, and abuse. These include:

  • Using food stamps to buy luxury coffee at Starbucks.
  • Buying steaks and lobster with food stamps.
  • The Obama Administration rewarding states that sign up more food stamp recipients.
  • Proposals to make it easier to use food stamps at fast food restaurants.
  • College kids scamming the program for handouts.
  • New York City giving food stamps to newly released prisoners and running foreign-language ads encouraging more people to sign up for the program.

As a taxpayer, I get upset about these examples. But….

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Leftist redistributive hypocrisy on full display

The Left is Marxist to some degree or another. Their whole philosophy is basically taking from the haves and redistributing to the have-nots. In the real world that’s the definition of Marxism.

“Tax the rich” seems to be the mantra of the Marxist. In other words, take from someone who worked hard for what he or she has, and give it to someone who didn’t work for it. But you can’t have a reasonable discussion about how wrong that is with a leftist, because to the leftist, that’s not Marxism, that’s fairness. I know, I know. But they have a mental illness, remember?

A film crew went out to a bastion of Marxist-Progressive ideology, a college campus. UC-Merced to be specific and posed the question of giving up some GPA points and redistributing them to the students that are struggling.

Well, just like you’d expect, you heard “that’s not fair, I worked hard for my grades, etc….” The crew told these bright young people who are the future of the country, that it’s basically the same thing as what these students believe in taxing the rich, and of course, the famous and tired two-word excuse was used by a number of these students. “That’s different.” Newsflash kids, no it isn’t.