[AltaGuy]

Originally Posted by NuclearFart

I hate to dogpile, but this post exemplifies the very typical flawed Republican mindset when it comes to social services like welfare/healthcare/etc, and how supposedly attainable the American dream is if you just "work hard" because they did it.

They made it, but they refuse to acknowledge just how privileged they were to be gifted the basic infrastructure of proper role models, stable household, steady food source & shelter, car to borrow, family to look after their kids while they work/school...etc. When you take away most that, its a tremendously huge hole to dig yourself out of without some assistance. Nobody accrues assets if you're living hand to mouth just to survive. This is the reality of being poor.

Throw in some institutionalized racism (sometimes overt) for many groups, and it's like trying to launch yourself to the moon with a matchstick.