Are these people better than those in Gaza? Sure but their life is still insanely hard.
You said you lived this way for the first 18 years of your life, then ask your parents how much sacrifices they made so you can feel this comfortable. If you never skipped meal because you could not afford food, be sure that your parents were and just hid it from you out of dignity.
They are better off than 95-99%% of the world's population. Put this into perspective. I've seen incredible poverty in this world. Our people are largely ungrateful and have lost the point entirely.
> You said you lived this way for the first 18 years of your life, then ask your parents how much sacrifices they made so you can feel this comfortable
You don't know my situation. There were little sacrifices to be had. I also never said it was always comfortable. But it was dignified and we had everything we needed. There was not a single day where we had to skip meals, and I remember filling out the forms for school trips myself. To live always comfortable is not the point of welfare.
> I've personally given benefits to these people, and I can assure you that you live in a fiction built for you by propaganda on TV.
Seeing as you're swatting away my opinions and personal experience as propaganda, I don't think there is any way to get a fruitful discussion out of this. I don't think we should lower welfare benefits. I just think we're being nationally out of touch with reality.
Who themselves are miles ahead the entirely of work population that ever lived on this planet before XXth century, but that doesn't make their life any better, does it?
> Our people are largely ungrateful and have lost the point entirely.
You aren't entitled any gratitude from people, especially not on the basis that there lives is being made a bit less miserable because of policies you oppose. Maybe I would deserve it slightly more, because at least I'm voting in favor of these policies, but I don't think anyone owes me gratitude whatsoever.
> To live always comfortable is not the point of welfare.
I'm not arguing the opposite, but you did insist that these people lived comfortably. This is obviously BS and I'm glad to see you're retracting it now.
> Seeing as you're swatting away my opinions and personal experience as propaganda, I don't think there is any way to get a fruitful discussion out of this. I don't think we should lower welfare benefits. I just think we're being nationally out of touch with reality.
Whatever your opinions (which BTW are as valid as mine, by definition of being opinions), you started this conversation with factual lies (which, on the opposite, isn't OK) about people “easily living” on welfare. I give you the benefit of the doubt that you did not make this lie on purpose by yourself, and given that this is a recurrent trope of right wing politicians on TV, it's fair to assume that's where it came from.
Eh. I‘d argue the average dirt poor Indian right now isn‘t far off from your 1800‘s Chinese rice farmer.
> You aren't entitled any gratitude from people, especially not on the basis that there lives is being made a bit less miserable because of policies you oppose.
This is untrue and I‘m not sure where you’ve made this observation. I wholly support these policies for German people. I have voted for a lot of them in the past and I‘m not a conservative. I love my country and the people in it and I voted progressive in every election I could.
Which is why I‘m getting angry when people spread straight lies that our people on welfare here in my country regularly go without food or live in awful states of disarray and poverty. We provide so much to people and I‘m proud of it. But I‘m also realistic in the way that we can‘t provide this level of welfare to just any outsider, and that welfare is not supposed to provide a life of leisure activity.
> I'm not arguing the opposite, but you did insist that these people lived comfortably. This is obviously BS and I'm glad to see you're retracting it now.
Nowhere in this thread did I state such a thing. I merely said they and their children their basic needs met, which is true. I‘m sitting in my office right now while my partner - an elementary school teacher - fills out forms for the kids in her class with parents on welfare, for them to be provided with any needed materials and money for overnight school trips. I love this. This is good. I didn’t have the privilege when I was a child. How are these people struggling exactly? They live in Munich, the most expensive city here, in one of the most expensive parts of the city, on welfare.
> , you started this conversation with factual lies (which, on the opposite, isn't OK) about people “easily living” on welfare.
Prove where I said anything about easy living. Quote me. It‘s you who is lying and I‘m getting annoyed by this conversation.
> I give you the benefit of the doubt that you did not make this lie on purpose by yourself, and given that this is a recurrent trope of right wing politicians on TV, it's fair to assume that's where it came from.
Nice resort to ad hominems. Note that I have spared you these baseless attacks. I would have expected you to keep this standard up as well. How disappointing. Maybe consider that differing opinions are not always propaganda you might read in the Bild, but sometimes come from people‘s real experiences.
I came out of this system and fought my way out of it. You‘re denying me not only these anecdotes but you and other posters in this thread also argue against information that can be easily found on our official webpages for welfare, all because you assume I‘m some kind of far right idiot. I‘m a bit sad for you honestly.
