(12-23-2024, 12:53 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote:

(12-23-2024, 10:36 AM)mikesez Wrote: This is a good post.
We need more posts like this.  
What do you think your youth would have been like if not for government assistance (for your family) and projects (like the ones your classmates lived in)?

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I definitely don't.  I already said most illegal immigrants don't receive it, and most of them are poor.

More to the point, I'm trying to start a conversation about government assistance, not poverty in general.  I'm allowed to try to steer conversations without being accused of assuming things about people.  Stop playing gotcha with me, homie.

Then start a conversation about the subject. Start a thread specific to the topic and say want you want to discuss. All you do is assume things/state things as fact that you don't actually know about and steer things in a direction not always congruent to the conversation and it makes you sound disingenuous. Just state what you want to discuss and if people want to talk about it they will.

I appreciate the feedback, but this is the politics forum.  Government actions are the main thing we talk about.  If we are talking about the economy in general we are almost always trying to make a point about "is the government doing a good job?"  Similarly, if we talk about poverty, usually we are trying to make a point "is government assistance working?"

The way I see it, you take conversations about government, and try to steer them into conversations about your personal experiences which I don't share. So you steer things too. I don't mind, I just feel like you've got a double standard.

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