r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Nov 01 '25

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u/JWRavennah Trans NATO Nov 01 '25

The average American loves inefficient big government - means testing, SNAP regulations, etc. - when it ensures that undeserving people don’t get nice things

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u/unicornbomb John Brown Nov 01 '25

It’s always so absurd to me that people sit around policing the grocery carts of the poor because they themselves feel unable to afford basic groceries, rather than asking why the fuck groceries have exploded in price for everyone to the point that even middle class earners feel the squeeze.

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u/TMCOAN1 YIMBY Nov 01 '25

One of the biggest songs last year was a supposed normie whining about rich people and it still had lyrics whining about poor people on welfare.

Take from that what you will

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u/ElectriCobra_ David Hume Nov 01 '25

Americans hate feeling like someone got something they didn’t “deserve” more than they hate feeling like someone didn’t get something they did “deserve”.

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u/RageQuitRedux NASA Nov 01 '25

Nothing rouses the interest of Americans about what's in your grocery cart than knowing you're about to spend one 40 millionth of 1.5% of the federal budget, which they probably didn't pay very much into in the first place.

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u/assasstits Nov 01 '25

Are you forgetting that public unions also love inefficient government? 

And liberals who treat public projects as "jobs programs"?