2. I just say "That's the most unchristian thing I've ever heard"
and I walk away.
These people are all so damned smug in their religious superiority that slapping them with how they've betrayed their god stops them dead in their tracks.
5. Well I for one am sick of supporting welfare recipients
I'm tired of giving aid to companies like United and others so they can lose billions more, default on pensions and give their executives millions in bonuses while bleeding cash.
That's what I say to people who tell me they're tired of supporting welfare recipients.
I ask them how much it cost them last year, in dollars. They never have an answer. Then I say that I'm proud to support welfare recipients because most of them are children or are disabled and unable to take care of themselves without help. I know this because I used to be one and lived in a neighborhood surrounded by other ones. No one had a car, never mind a Cadillac. The biggest welfare cheats were the women who had part time jobs under the table or who sold food stamps in order to have some cash to buy extravagant things like toilet paper and soap.
I don't give a rat's ass if my money is wasted on people like that. So sue me.
16. I tell them we probably need another Democrat to reform the welfare system
After they reply that they don't know what the hell I'm talking about, I point out that President Clinton worked with Congress to reform welfare and move all but the most hopeless cases into a workforce that grew under his leadership.
That the "liberal" Bill Clinton placed a ten year lifetime limit on welfare recipients to end the multi-generational reliance on state assistance and made approval of cases more difficult for all but those with young dependent children.
It seems that Rush Limbaugh never mentioned to them that this happened in the horrible 90s so I also point out that "I guess it helped that Clinton created jobs for these people to go to" as well.
I finish by explaining that Republicans move people from jobs to welfare, while Democrats move people from welfare to jobs
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