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Okay, I really don't want to go into this too intensely but I think when you say "I don't want people mooching off of my riches" you sound like a sheltered rich kid who has no idea what it's like for the millions who live paycheck to paycheck. Just because you (and I) were born into relative affluence doesn't give us the right to judge those who didn't. I indirectly work for the department of human services. Do you know how little you have to make to get food stamps, how little that helps and how many restrictions there are on them? It's not a handout, it's basic subsistance.
This isn't about giving stuff to people who screwed up their lives, it's about not letting people starve and die of perfectly cureable diseases in the midst of the richest nation in the world.
Please don't flame me, I won't fight back. I just needed to say this.
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