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nvidia2008 
Yesterday I got my $30+ back from the Australian government for my doctor's out-of-pocket consultation fee of $65. I felt like hugging the clerk but that would have freaked everybody out... She was also very no-nonsense, later I saw her getting some pizza for lunch, she was pregnant, which could explain her no-nonsense attitude... and that she was craving pizza. In that particular small government office most people in line were like, c'mon, keep it movin', let's all get our monies. I felt like shouting at the top of my lungs, do you know how lucky we all are motherfuckers, do you know the rest of the world is going down the tubes????!!!
But then I went and spent the money on Xbox360 points to buy Bastion.
I felt a bit guilty but It would've been what the right-wing would have wanted me to do... you know, spend, spend, spend.
When you delve into the left in the U.S and their authoritarian ways, you'll understand why some of the wonderful things you note have failed to come to pass.
First you got money back for money you had paid in. You gave the doctor $65 and you received $30 of it back. This would be racist in the United States or it would mean you hate the poor. We are told it is not appropriate to expect anything of the poor in the U.S. Why even having to go see the clerk and get the money back would be too large a burden of shame to shoulder. We are told that requiring free state issued I.D.'s for verification of voting is racist. We are told that if an immigrant who is federally required to carry their papers for them is asked for them during a traffic stop for another crime, that it is Nazism. You can't give someone food stamps, you have to give them an state debit card and allow it to be used in all sorts of inappropriate manners or else you are hateful and racist because someone might note they are getting help.
Then you take the second half of the problem. This group of people for whom movement and expectation is an unimaginable burden, well they end up rather bad off. They are unemployable. They are obese. They indulge in far too many vices and still expect all to be well regardless of their choices. Also you can never judge their actions because they would never KNOWINGLY make all these bad choices. The problem can only ever be ignorance. So when they smoke, then need large pictures of mouth cancer to inform them of their choices. The fast food they buy with their ETB/Food stamp card needs the calories in bold print next to it so they will consider their expanding waist line. Every person who interacts with them is predatory, greedy and will take advantage of their ignorance. Even the businesses they deal with are attempting to harm them even while providing what many might call a fair deal or a decent value.
So now we move to that pregnant woman you encountered. How dare you expect her to work in her state. It is your fault she can't stay home and be a mom and also your fault her partner doesn't earn enough to support her in such a manner and that she has to work. Clearly she doesn't want to work. Who would want such a menial and mentally unchallenging job unless it was to put food in their mouth and clothes on their back. She clearly has no choice about working and that is YOUR fault. Look at her choice of food. It is fatty, high carb, processed and high calorie. She is pregnant for goodness sakes and ought to be eating organic, locally grown veggies and small quantities of protein be it grass-fed beef or plant based alternatives.
The fact that she made any of those choices, the mundane job, the high calorie food, perhaps even the choice to become pregnant. They aren't really her choices. She acts in ignorance or as a victim of environment. You are the uncaring and the oppressor who crafted that environment and you fail to provider her utopia since you care so little about your fellow humans. If you just taxed all the pizza, no one would choose it and it the more expensive foods would be chosen when they now are not due in part to price.
It's all your fault.
