What does any of that have to do with my contention regarding the attitude that welfare recipients are lazy deadbeats? How is anything that you are saying at all relevant?
The merits of these programs is a different conversation. I am very specifically addressing the hateful, ugly, and unproductive attitude toward the people whom these programs benefit, not whether or not they should exist in the first place.
You quote the "statistics" of the CBPP as though this leftist think tank designed to promote progressive viewpoints, is above reproach....simply because it supports your ideology.
You obviously have not been around welfare recipients first-hand. Or....you just choose to disregard reality.
So I'm "hateful and ugly" because I don't like to support those that won't??
Ok.
No, you're hateful and ugly because you're lumping all welfare recipients in with the actual deadbeats and lazy people. You're lumping them all together without even entertaining the possibility that maybe people on these programs are in situations that are more complicated than "just wants to sit on the couch and watch Netflix."
It's fine to feel resentful towards people who game the system and abuse it. But it's not fine to show the same attitude towards the millions of people on these programs who built the country you're living in, giving you all the advantages you have. Nor is it fine to say such words about the disabled, many of whom literally can't survive without this assistance.
This is the best source that I have found even when considering the possibility of bias. I am always open to new sources of information, because if there are better ones I'd like the opportunity to adjust how I view this particular subject.
Please, do feel free to offer up a better source with a more transparent system for evaluating the subject.
Because you haven't, I suppose I should either assume that it's because you don't have one, or because you're lazy.
I have actually been around welfare recipients, and I did not at all think that my parents or grandparents were lazy deadbeats. But to be fair, that's anecdotal, which is basically meaningless, much like the evidence you've offered up to back up your hateful comments.