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Hermeneutic charity in the US?
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Hans Blaster
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Not really. The conservative media and politicians spent most of the 80s and a good portion of the 90s demonizing people on "welfare" and most American's are at least nominally Christian with its notion of giving to the poor.
Back in the 80s the food assistance program was known as "food stamps" and cash aid to the poor was "welfare". Neither of those terms are in widespread usage anymore likely because of that demonization. (Some of the programs may have also been officially renamed, like how NAFTA became something else a few years ago.)
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I means it's similar to how people are all for the Affordable Care Act but hate Obama Care. messaging and exact words are so important in American politics and it irritates me because it's a good sign of an uninterested electorate.
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I thought they were WIC and AFDC, but maybe those are separate programs.
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WIC is Women Infants and Children, which is a separate supplemental Nutrional program designed for pregnant women and mothers with young children. AFDC was replaced by TANF, which is actually more restrictive.
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I didn't know how far "up" it went in age eligibility.
Ah, "welfare reform".
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Ah...dissatisfaction with welfare dates to its inception. There was a certain joke that would likely be frowned on in the forum that was so common in the late 1960s and into the 1970s that there were novelty items based on it.
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Now you have my curiosity going. Can you PM the joke, I want to see if I was involved with it as a kid.
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It's due to right-wing propaganda from decades ago, equating being on welfare with character defects.
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I once calculated the amount of money the average taxpayer pays for people to receive "food stamps" after there was some event that caused a stir and people started rage-ranting about it on facebook. I don't remember the exact amount but it was something like $0.001 per person/per recipient/per year. My advice to anyone being harassed at the grocery store for using EBT was to carry a few pennies with them so that when someone complains about how they're "paying" for their welfare they could just flip them a penny and absolve them of their need to care for the year.
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