Comments by "Matthew Loutner" (@Matthew_Loutner) on "California governor proposes $400 gas rebate" video.

  1. I think a gas card is a good idea. But why give it to rich people?? They do not need one. Add the ability onto food stamp cards or Social Security checks so it only goes to people who need it and are already qualified as needing it.
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  2.  @chrissyellem7397  Hhmmm . . . 🤔
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  3.  @wilhard45  1. Poor people are not lazy bums -- they are either disabled and not able to work or retired from a lifetime of work or they work at minimum wage jobs. 2. Around 30% of Americans receive some type of social assistance and almost all of them have a car. They buy gas. 3. Rich people have enough money to pay the higher gas prices. So they would not need it. 4. The chances people would trade their gas cards for drugs is slim to non-existent because they need the gas for their car. 5. If they do not own a car, they can be excluded from the program. 6. If rich people should get the card too because they pay taxes too, then rich people should all be getting food stamps now too . . . . Right? 7. It is not a "tax rebate" -- it is public assistance.
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  4.  @senorplayedya  Not joking. I believe in lowering taxes across the board for everybody and reducing the size of government. This plan is socialism and just gives government more power and authority over us. I am against big government power. But I am not against helping someone in need.
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  5.  @peterbelanger4094  I have been poor all of my life and was homeless for 4 years. So you do not have to explain any of it to me. I know what is out there. Anything I say about it is accurate and based on academic study together with personal experience. An addiction is a medical disability. Whether they are seeking help or not, one cannot work a full-time job and support themselves with it when they are in that situation. It is a burden on the rest of us -- but you may have no idea how difficult it is for people with addictions to seek and get help. While living in homeless shelters, I met people who had been through rehab and gotten back to work 3 or 4 times. Then fell off the wagon and lost their job later. You have no idea how hard it is to struggle through years of living that way. Have you ever met someone personally who "rejected help"? How do you know that happens? I cannot say that I ever witnessed anyone "rejecting help." Of course some poor people are "not pretty" -- that is why Jesus loves them.
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  6.  @wilhard45  You have serious emotional problems: 1. No one has asked you to "feel sorry" for anyone. You are imagining that. 2. I have not done any whining -- that is your imagination kicking in. You see things that you choose to see instead of what is really there. 3. You have a "feeling" that I am lying, although I have a policy that I NEVER lie. That is also your imagination kicking in seeing things that are not there. 4. If you will look at my comment above about low taxes and small government, it should be obvious to you that I am highly conservative, but you are "imagining" that I am a liberal. 5. When people have a drug addiction, it is from their own decision at some point in time. So it is their own fault. But you expect some teenager to always make the right decision when they do not have a fully-developed mature adult brain? Why do you think we do not let people drink until they are 21? It is because psychologists tell us that their brain is not fully-developed and they cannot evaluate risks in an adult way. Everyone is not always in a position to make good decisions at all times. You cannot expect that from people. You are being judgmental . . . looking down on everyone who did not make as good of decision as you did. You think you are better than other people who cannot do as good as you -- you are prideful. But the fact is . . It is highly possible that you could have decided to try drugs when you were a teenager and become addicted to drugs and someone else would be here saying it was your own fault for making one wrong decision in your past. We have all made bad decisions from time to time and you are not immune from making a bad decision -- you are no better than anyone else. It is only by the grace of God that you escaped being an addict. 5. There are so many reasons that people work minimum wage jobs that I cannot even cover them all with you. But the main thing you need to learn is that God did not create everyone with the talents they would need to work at the top of society. If we had all chiefs and no indians, how would society function? That was never God's intention -- so He created the working class and you should not be questioning His decision on that. Most people try to do the best that they can with the talents that God gave them. And for many, many people that means they work a minimum wage job. It is not "their fault" -- it is the talent that God gave them. I was an auto mechanic for most of my life. Why? Because I was extremely good at it -- I had a natural, God-given talent to fix engines. I just fell into it because I was good at it. I was building hot rod engines when I was 16 years old. I did not "choose" the profession. It was not "my fault." 6. I am not going to define "rich" for you. But rich people do not need financial help. So they do not need a gas card. You should be able to figure out on your own who that covers. 7. You are like the Grinch who stole Christmas and Ebenezer Scrooge -- you look down on other people and you do not have a heart. You lack empathy and compassion and seriously have a lot of spiritual growing up to do. As long as you continue trying to judge everyone else against your own self, you will never understand anything about society. Honestly, I just do not like people like you who believe that they are better than others. You disgust me and listening to your arrogant attitude turns my stomach.
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  7.  @wilhard45  People who need drugs so bad that they would sell their gas card to buy more drugs do not own cars because they already sold their car to buy drugs. So they would not be eligible to get a gas card.
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  8.  @wilhard45  Yes really. My comments are not "fallacious" and they are not "based on stereotypes." My comments are accurate and based on real life. There is more than one type of addiction and more than one type of addictive personality: 1. Addicts who still are able to maintain jobs, cars, and families have enough control of their lives that they would NOT sell their gas card, If they needed the gas. 2. It is the addicts whom the drug has overwhelming control of them that steal everything in sight and try to sell their food stamp card when they know they need it to buy food. Those are the ones you described in your first statement. THEY DO NOT OWN CARS. They lost their car years ago. You are the one with "limited knowledge of addiction" -- not me. I have personal front-lines experience with addiction and have even had expensive equipment stolen from me from addict-friends and I know addicts who sell their food stamp card. I have even had people point to a store and say, "If you need to sell your food stamp card, the guy who owns that store buys them at a 30% discount. So you would be wise to stop saying that I do not know what I am talking about -- because I do. Instead of learning about life in a "training session," you should go out and live among them and make friends with them as I did. Try sharing an apartment with an addict . . . or living together with several in a homeless shelter . . . or have the local drug-dealer buy your lunch . . . as I did. Then you will know what you are talking about (which you don't now). One of my best friends is addicted to alcohol and attends weekly Alcoholic Anonymous meetings. He also works for the state of Texas as a drug rehab councilor. He has a college degree and a career job. He makes so much money that he does not even qualify for food stamps. He manages his household budget well and DOES NOT STEAL . . . . and YOU have no idea what you are talking about. Get back with me after the local drug dealers buys you a Big Mac because she knows that it is the only meal you will get that day. By then you should at least understand a little bit about drug addiction.
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  9. I drive an Oldsmobile Intrigue and I could fill up 4 times. 😎👍🇺🇸 ✝️
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