Anna Kasparian
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I don't think most Americans are walking around feeling entitled.
Most Americans aren't thinking to themselves, hey, you know what?
I'm a bum and I sit on the couch all day and I don't make any money, but I deserve to live in a multimillion dollar mansion paid for by the United States government.
No.
There are countless Americans in this country who work more than 40 hours a week and still can't make ends meet.
Something is broken in the system and putting the onus on Americans and making them out to be lazy bums is what offends me the most, to be honest.
I mean, it comes across that way for sure.
Obviously, I don't know what the motivations of Ben Shapiro really happen to be.
What I do know is that when it comes to government handouts, he never really seems to have a problem with the government handouts that get sent abroad to other countries.
You get what I'm saying?
So there's that.
But the other thing is, even if you're doing well, even if you're affluent,
Do you really want to live in a country where as soon as you walk outside your door, there's a massive homeless encampment?
You know, do you really want to live in a country like that?
Because I don't.
Do you want to live in a country where close to 100,000 of your fellow Americans are dying of drug overdoses and our government seems to not really care much and in fact exploits that as a talking point to justify a potential war with Venezuela, which has nothing to do with fentanyl, by the way.
You know, it's...
I think there are multiple different motives, including the fact that former Senator Marco Rubio, current Secretary of State, is a Cuban-American, has had an ax to grind with Venezuela because of the fact that Venezuela is aligned with Cuba.
And look, your sick little personal pet project shouldn't be something that the United States is dragged into and is forced to fund.
But the other thing I think...