The Anthony Cumia Show - August 22, 2025


Whatever Happened to Being Embarrassed？ ｜ 08-17-25


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Length

10 minutes

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Word count

1,366

Sentence count

57

Harmful content

Misogyny

10

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Toxicity

5

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Hate speech

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Summary

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In this minicast, I talk about the current state of the welfare system in America and why it s time to get off of it. I also talk a little about my experience growing up on welfare and how it has changed since then.

Transcript

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00:01:18.000 What is happening?
00:01:21.300 Um,
00:01:21.780 yeah this is uh this is a good one too this is what's been happening like trump has done a lot
00:01:28.560 of stuff uh the crime thing is the latest but the big big beautiful bill and uh the the snap
00:01:36.820 and the welfare and the section 8 housing and all this years and years ago let me tell you a little
00:01:45.580 story kids sit down get your pajamas on when i was uh a little tyke growing up uh my dad and mom 0.77
00:01:56.640 divorced my dad went out to california i guess he figured i need to get as far away from this woman
00:02:03.260 as is humanly possible and still stay in the continental united states so um my mom was
00:02:11.680 raising myself my brother Joe my sister Dawn by herself she worked quite a few jobs we never went
00:02:22.280 for it wanted for anything and but she worked hard for it and we knew we knew she worked hard
00:02:30.180 for it Christmas was never a disappointment we had gifts and birthdays and dinner was always we
00:02:38.160 didn't have we didn't have store brand stuff or anything it was del monte and green giant and she
00:02:45.580 made sure that we had everything we needed school when school came up the supplies we had we had
00:02:52.620 little ridiculous shirts and ties for tie to school like i was making a business deal
00:02:59.240 um because that's what a caring loving parent does they're not looking for a an angle they're 0.88
00:03:11.880 not looking to screw someone over and utilize their kids to to get something
00:03:18.940 now they have so many iterations of welfare programs and by the way there's no shame to it
00:03:30.280 i'm not even talking about the people the people have no shame they're yelling for more
00:03:35.980 but there was a shame factor to handing over what were called food stamps back in uh the day as i
00:03:46.360 like to call it and if you were at a checkout in a supermarket and you pulled those food stamps out
00:03:53.400 oh the people didn't want their faces to be seen they were embarrassed and look some people
00:03:59.960 genuinely needed them and um it was just embarrassing embarrassment is a great or at
00:04:07.980 least was a great motivator people used to not want to be embarrassed i swear kids
00:04:16.160 there's young people now watching going what but everyone wants to be embarrassed now
00:04:23.300 you yell at a mcdonald's you throw things around you argue with the cops you're on welfare you have
00:04:31.120 20 kids don't people want to be embarrassed no back then people did not even want to be embarrassed
00:04:38.820 I swear. Look it up. So that's how it used to work. There was an incentive to get off of welfare just because you felt bad being on welfare. Imagine that. Imagine that your feelings and your dignity was the drive behind wanting to get off of welfare.
00:05:03.900 Yeah. Swear. Now. There is no embarrassment, no pride, no anything. There's actually this is it. Where's where's mine? I want more.
00:05:21.480 So now Trump, the beautiful bill, he's made it so that people that are able to work have to work.
00:05:34.620 I know, crazy.
00:05:36.620 It's like the gulag.
00:05:38.800 But that's what it is now.
00:05:42.360 And lo and behold, that lack of embarrassment I'm telling you about,
00:05:46.760 There are people going online, putting themselves on video to complain that they are now required to work to either get a lower amount on their welfare or, you know, they're going to be cut off anyway.
00:06:06.860 The point here is you have to work.
00:06:11.520 You're able to.
00:06:12.320 if you're disabled you can still be on welfare snap whatever it is but if you are capable of 1.00
00:06:20.260 working you have to work and this is an injustice here's a woman angry angry and and putting her
00:06:32.280 face on the internet that she has to now work to get her benefits watch listen in two years i'm 0.59
00:06:40.420 going to lose my housing all because the guidelines for section eight have changed
00:06:47.300 since you know who got into office could you pause this for a second at the studio
00:06:53.340 did you hear what she said in two years i'll lose my housing could you imagine
00:07:03.580 you're you're you went through school maybe even college maybe you went into the trades
00:07:10.380 and it's not your parents you're living with but somehow some way you got two years of housing
00:07:20.160 for nothing for free to to build yourself up build up a nest egg uh build a career 1.00
00:07:28.940 just something that after that two years you have a launching point she's bitching that she only has 1.00
00:07:38.340 two years to do something with her life to to be a contributing member of society instead of a 1.00
00:07:47.420 burden and again not an ounce of of guilt or embarrassment putting her dumb frig face 1.00
00:07:55.520 online for everyone to see as she complains about this. 1.00
00:08:01.380 Let's continue.
00:08:02.960 That if you have a child that is school-aged,
00:08:06.560 meaning if you don't have to stay home with your child,
00:08:10.220 you have to be able to obtain employment,
00:08:13.860 have a full-time job,
00:08:16.580 and you cannot be on Section 8 past two years
00:08:20.160 unless you have a disability.
00:08:22.540 Can you believe that?
00:08:24.420 Yeah.
00:08:24.860 can you believe that yes i can god forbid i have the stress of being a single mother
00:08:30.380 right um i have to depend on the government to help pave my way because pause again because
00:08:37.680 it's really hard raising a child this is another thing remember i don't know you know i i know i
00:08:45.040 probably skew a little older than i did when we were putting uh girls in 55 gallon drums and
00:08:49.980 dumping fish guts on them so i'm assuming there's some people here who might remember something 1.00
00:08:55.440 called the 80s this woman is complaining about working and having kids and having to lead 1.00
00:09:11.140 a life that we all had to lead. This is what living in this country is. 0.99
00:09:22.640 You don't, you weren't supposed to just get a free ride. And back then there was this criteria
00:09:31.160 where you had to work and you were embarrassed by not working and earning and supporting
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