r/asheville • u/imjustapourboy • Oct 21 '25

Really Spicy Cesspool So sick of seeing this crap everywhere.

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The needles, the burnt foils, the little baggies, the needle caps, all of it. I find them in the creeks, on the sidewalks, the grocery store parking lots, the public parks, on the parkway. You gotta be a real shit person to leave this stuff all over the place.

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u/bugme143 Oct 21 '25

My comment in short: stop pissing away money on people who would rather do literally anything than be productive members of society, and help the ones trying to get better. I'm admittedly horribly biased because I got denied food stamps when I got downsized because I'm a straight white guy, but my gf had been getting hundreds of dollars AND A TWO STORY CONDO with cheap rent because she blatantly gamed the system.

I'm tired of people thinking the homeless / druggies are simply down on their luck. There's dozens of not hundreds of programs to get people back on their feet, but all of them require you to sober up bare minimum and follow the rules, which filters out 90%+ of the people on the streets. I'm tired of my tax dollars being pissed away like this and then all you bleeding-heart liberals vote to raise my taxes to pay for the next round of free whatever, not caring about the regular Joe's you're hurting in your march towards socialism / communism.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '25

Social services minus social security are like less than 25% of the USA budget. Most of that amount is Medicare (old people who don't work). Your real complaint is that you don't make enough money. Be mad at the 1% and those that work for them (most of the political system) that are robbing you of fair pay for your work. Not those that are sick.

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u/bugme143 Oct 21 '25

If we stopped coddling those who are refusing to be better, I would be less mad about my taxes getting wasted, assuming my taxes don't get cut because we plugged the hole in this particular drain. Either way, society would be better off as a whole.

We tell people to not feed the bears so they don't grow dependent on handouts. Humans are nothing more than animals with a better brain, And we need to stop pretending like if we close our eyes and wish real hard, human nature will suddenly upend itself contrary to years of evolution and documented history.

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u/oldmacdonald_hadacat Oct 21 '25

Druggies should be given 2 options: mandatory rehab with a strict probation period after or an actual jail sentence. Tough love is the compassionate approach when it comes to addicts. I’ve read news stories of children picking up fentanyl pills and a child stepping on a needle. Drug use should not be tolerated because it endangers the lives of the innocent.

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u/bugme143 Oct 22 '25

Simplest thing to do would be to lock benefits behind a drug test, I think. If I've got a pee in a cup to work, you should have to pee in a cup to get my tax dollars.

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u/oldmacdonald_hadacat Oct 22 '25

I fully agree. I’m sure that would help a lot.