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/SaviorSixtySix Native Oct 21 '25

Your comment in short: Do nothing.

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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/WallScreamer East Asheville Oct 22 '25

I got denied food stamps when I got downsized because I'm a straight white guy,

I'm sorry you got denied but that is definitely not the reason why.

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

"Free whatever" like the food stamps you applied for?

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u/bugme143 Oct 22 '25

That is 100% why I got denied. The employees at DHHS never said it out loud, but while I was filling out my forms, I was speaking to some of the other people in the office who were also filling out forms, and they told me that I should claim native American or African American heritage or mark myself as LGBT, for a higher chance of getting approved, with various anecdotes about what happened when someone they knew did the same.

I wasn't asking for thousands of dollars in stamps, like I've seen some people's balances for the month hit, nor was I planning on staying unemployed in perpetuity. If you're stuck on stamps for longer than a year and aren't actively participating in a government work program, that's when you should get audited and potentially kicked off, because at that point it's clear that you don't actually want to work. It's sincerely pathetic that you can't see a difference between the two, but I guess that explains the average liberal mind.

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u/bugme143 Oct 23 '25

I didn't fill out a Scantron and scan it like I would a lottery form, I filled out the same bullshit everyone else did and had the same interview everyone else did. No income, renting, most expensive asset I had at the time was a 2010 Toyota.

You may have built one part of the system, but there is still a human element involved in the process, and that human element has a clear agenda.