re: #70 Mateo Scrounge

Here’s an HHS page on the eligibility of aliens to receive federal benefits:

Hint - it’s not just undocumented aliens who are ineligible, but also large numbers of legal immigrants.

Nothing, but nothing, will send RWNJs into a frothing rage like pointing out that “ill-eagles” are not eligible for most federal benefits, especially including food stamps. It is like this fact overturns their whole worldview. Every bigot has a horror story about being in line behind a couple of illegals (invariably described as grossly fat) who are buying mountains of steak, lobster, and other luxury foods with food stamps, while the poor bigot must work hard for his ground chuck. I’ve never seen this personally, but I have seen impoverished minimum wage workers buying food for themselves and several kids (which would take a mountain of grub, rich or poor) and using WIC cards to pay for it. I don’t mind footing the bill for it: I don’t know which of these poor kids might grow up to cure Alzheimer’s or invent faster than light travel, something that won’t happen if their brains are stunted by hunger when they’re little.
Again, cheap labor is subsidized by the taxpayers, if you’re a soul-dead money-grubber, you don’t have to pay a living wage because the government will take up the slack for you.