Comments by "SciFi Realism" (@scifirealism5943) on "GOP Work Requirements For Public Assistance Are Totally Ineffective" video.

  1. It's about the cruelty
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  2. Yep
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  3. Except Republicans want poverty
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  4. You're not getting it. Look up family assistance plan under Nixon. The real reason there are work requirements is to force poor people into minimum wage jobs
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  5. I'm a poor community college student taking 10 credits. I lost my food stamps because I don't work and I'm able bodied and without dependents.
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  6. It's not about saving money, it's about the fact that welfare pays more than minimum wage jobs, so politicians force poor people to accept such a bad deal with work requirements
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  7. Read Herbert gans functions of poverty
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  8. The point is to reinforce the lie the poor people are lazy
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  9. Republicans want poverty
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  10. Ideologically? Yes. Economically? No. It's to force poor people into minimum wage jobs.
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  11. Snap in NC has work requirements, so I lost them while attending community college.
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  12. To force poor people to accept slave wages
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  13. Work requirements exist to force poor people into minimum wage jobs
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  14.  @nerag7459  correct. Read Herbert gans functions of poverty: poverty first function is to ensure society's dirty work gets done. If everyone had wealth or skills, nobody would work minimum wage jobs.
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  15.  @nerag7459  also read the origin of work requirements: the family assistance plan under president Nixon.
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  16.  @nerag7459  I can't read my messages now. DARN IT
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  17. Able bodied is a moral term to imply poor people don't deserve government assistance. It's based on just world Fallacy: that poor people don't work hard enough to escape poverty, and thus don't deserve government benefits.
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  18. Read Herbert gans functions of poverty
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  19. The real reason work requirements exist is to ensure poor people are forced to accept minimum wage jobs.
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  20. You believe poor people are lazy
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