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I often find the loudest voices with this mentality either come from well off families, or were poor enough themselves in childhood to have benefited from the government programs they wish to destroy. The first is ignorance and the second is some sort of self hatred / shame.

I rarely hear people that grew up fairly middle class and "made it" looking back at the poor as someone holding them back in this same manner.



>or were poor enough themselves in childhood to have benefited from the government programs they wish to destroy

or, are currently benefiting, but they're just getting what's owed to them, unlike all the other moochers taking handouts




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