into the gloaming

stfuconservatives:

I see this shit every few months. I just don’t know how to fucking respond at this point. 

I’m assuming a roundhouse kick to the face isn’t an option?

Direct them to this link. It has facts!

Not only are TANF benefits low, but they also do less to help families out of extreme poverty than they did in 1996. In 2010, some 29 states have benefit levels below 30 percent of the FPL, nearly twice as many as had benefits below 30 percent of the poverty line in 1996. Moreover, in all but three states, a poor family relying solely on TANF to provide the basics for its children (such as during a period of joblessness, illness, or disability) is further below the poverty line today than in 1996.

And even charts!

This mythical “welfare queen” who lives luxuriously solely off of government benefits, has five kids to get more money and wears Prada to the grocery store where she uses her food stamps? She doesn’t exist.

Are there people who abuse government welfare programs? Probably, but I’m willing to let that happen if it means people can eat and have electricity.

-R