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It would be easier to empathize with these people if they were not a bunch of entitled jerks who view looting as a natural part of life. 

Instead, what we are learning is that among the 40 million people who get SNAP benefits through EBT cards, a whole lot of them are worthless, entitled people who need to get off their asses and go to work. 





TikTok is filled with videos of SNAP “beneficiaries,” most of whom are obese, explaining how they intend to loot grocery stores to stock up on junk food for the month of November because the government isn’t going to fill their EBT cards in the month of November. 

(Lots of NSFW content).

This trend is a variation of one that popped up a few weeks ago, with SNAP recipients doing their own version of the ridiculous “my day working at…” videos where tech employees bragged about how little work they performed during their “work” day. The lumpenproletariate version was of SNAP recipients showing their shopping carts filled with junk food, and just how much money they were scamming off the taxpayers. 

SNAP is sold to Americans as providing essential nutrition to struggling families, ensuring that nobody, especially children, is forced to go hungry when they hit a rough patch. A program that fills that genuinely necessary social purpose is one that most of us could easily support. One mark of civilization is ensuring that nobody starves in the streets, unless it’s in San Francisco or Portland. 





But let’s face it: SNAP, for the most part, doesn’t serve that purpose at all. Sure, it provides aid to people in need, but when 40 million people are grabbing government benefits, many of whom are able-bodied and capable of working, the program’s purpose has been hijacked. 

The argument that millions of people are going hungry in America, and the only thing that stands between mass starvation and a socialist utopia is the willingness of people to shovel money at the poors is, frankly, a lie. Instead, what we have managed to create is an underclass that has contempt for the people who work hard to support them. 

You have to love that line…”if y’all able to work, you better start working.” Said as if that is a bizarre concept, and not the bare minimum that we should expect from any able-bodied person. 





Decent people who can do so should help those genuinely in need, but “need” and “want” are two different things. Food, clothing, housing, goods, and services are the products of labor, and just expecting others to do labor so that you don’t have to is immoral. 

Not only immoral, but dignity-destroying. And as you can see from these videos, dignity is not something the entitled exude. 

Social insurance systems, like most societal functions, only work well when there is a basic level of social trust. The Nordic countries were seen as a model, but they were always the exception to the rule because these societies, until recently, were essentially homogeneous, and the expectation was that over one’s lifetime, everybody contributed more than they took out. Social trust was through the roof. 

But in societies where social insurance programs are seen as a good scam by many, they no longer serve a purpose people are willing to pay for. Nobody likes being taken advantage of, nor should they. 





Of course, if the police refuse to arrest shoplifters and courts refuse to prosecute, the scammers will do exactly what they say: take advantage of us yet again. 

Things like this can’t go on forever. At some point, the people paying the bills will rebel, or society will collapse. Already, the experience of shopping has been degraded, and in many places, basic products are behind locked cabinets—even though we throw money at these people. 

Liberals tell us that this is the price we pay to ensure that people who truly are deserving of our aid and compassion get the help they need, or that putting in place checks and balances to ensure that people on welfare aren’t unnecessarily shamed. Both of those are lies. If welfare were restricted to people in real need, few people would object or look down on the recipients. 





The shame attaches because we all suspect that the person using welfare is a layabout, and layabouts SHOULD be ashamed. 

There’s an implicit social contract: we’ll help you if you are willing to help yourself and contribute what you can. 

If you want to know what socialism breeds, you are looking at it. And, as with socialist countries like Cuba and Venezuela, the ultimate destination is productive people escaping, and crushing poverty for everybody else. 



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