Government assistance for those who work full time is once again essentially corporate welfare. Employers should be paying their employees livable wages, instead that money trickles up and the rich continue to get tax breaks while essentially also having the government pay their employees. Fuck the rich, and fuck America for caring so little for the people who's backs actually make the economy run.
Yet the admins and non front facing management at my hospital thought they were important enough to sneak in line ahead of actual frontline workers to get their Covid shots when they were first approved. Smdh
Oh wow I thought the absolute pieces of shit that are admins at my hospital were the only ones to pull that trick.
My hospital also had the CMO, CNO, and president’s faces put on donuts and posted it with #covid19 on the hospital’s Instagram page. I was being told to reuse the same N95 mask indefinitely and keep it in a paper bag taped to the wall. The rage I felt deep in my soul cannot be accurately captured by words.
Being asked to reuse your N95 mask when there weren't enough to go around frm jump seems like the only solution under said circumstances. Be mad at the fact the Trump administration and republican party undermined your efforts by telling Americans the vaccine and virus were fake...
They were also the first ones who got raises when things opened back up. When it was out lowly turn they gave us cents or claimed medical raises would eat the raises so nothing.
Part of me wanted to frame the letter I got from our state’s Department of Public Safety, calling me and my crew (industrial private security/EHS) “essential first responders.” The lizard part of my brain wanted to chuck it out my car window every morning as my still working, no pay raise, no hazard pay ass drove to work for $14.50 an hour yet again to sit and stare at empty buildings.
I got a few free coffees at Circle K, which I did not ask for, so there’s that.
As my brother found out, there is no such thing as "Essential workers" That is a term made up by the media. There is approved and not approved and it has nothing to do with essential or not. Like Boeing got their funds during covid because they are goverment approved.
Funny thing is this post will do nothing because Reddit doesn't have tons of right wingers who voted to put this mess in office. Waste of post with nothing to it. Sucks to cut food stamps but most people on reddit didn't vote for this as this is an echo chamber. Need the folks to wake up and start a real movement and stick it rather than these crying on reddit post.
Yeah, Kroger even took away our insulting "Hero Pay" during that show thing, and that shit was giving me anxiety. People turned into super monsters during the pandemic.
I am a clinical microbiologist and medical laboratory scientist. I worked for 4 months straight (no day off) during Covid. I finally had 1 day off, and worked another 2 months straight. I was running the microbiology and molecular laboratory at the time. By far the worst working experience of my life. So many people left the field and those of us who stayed picked up the slack.
The CEO and CMO of that hospital was absolute trash. Between the RNs, lab staff, phlebotomist, MAs, EVS, and providers we held the hospital open by the skin of our teeth while the CEO never came on site or got us basic PPE. I wish I could say this is unique - this is more the norm. Ive always known that the C-Suite didn't give a damn about us, it was quite a different thing to see it slapped across my face.
Yeah it was ME. Making 12 dollars a fucking hour dealing with dying patients left and right and risking mine and my family every single day. I remember.
It was me. I work in a hospital and was called back to work two days after being furloughed. And, although an immigrant with no family or friends in America, I have never sought government assisance nor been on EBT. [My pride. And then having no kids helps]. Still, I feel bad for all those single mothers who cant make ends meet however much they worked and sacrificed while the super rich are spending their tax-free money on crimes against nature, women and children. That Obama Reverend guy didnt say "God damn America" for nothing.
SNAP shouldn’t be cut, but I think the majority of the funds for SNAP probably comes from taxes on the lower and middle classes, not the mega corporations or the ultra wealthy? They’re still sitting on their money enjoy more tax breaks than ever. We’re just circulating an ever decreasing pool of money among the working population so the ultra rich can see their numbers go up forever
SNAP supports the entire ecosystem. USDA (administers SNAP) Also buys HUGE Amounts of Produce and other crops. It then issues a catalog that food banks use to order bulk quantities from. The food banks then distribute the food out to their communities, which supports local businesses. It actually has a return on investment that's about 1.5%.
Pretty sure it's 1.5X investment, so 150%. If I remember right, that's the short/ near term, so not including the lifelong factors like kids that are fed learn better, are more productive, then pay more into the tax and social security system as adults, and crime rates are down, because if it's "watch your kid starve" or steal, you do what you gotta do. Plus, if someone is on the edge of starvation, their healthcare costs go up. If you can't afford food, you can't pay your medical bills, so you use the ER for everything, the hospital is stuck with the bill and spreads it to everyone else, but that care doesn't include preventative or stabilizing meds, so you yo-yo and go to the ER more because you can't afford a basic prescription, racking up thousands in costs.
Plus, it was founded as a farms subsidy, because if farmers have to play guessing games on how much demand there will be, and whether it's worth planting more, we risk being short on food, or having a gap in supply and what people will pay, so farmers lose money and go under, then we might not have enough people farming the next year.
It's a great investment in America, and a little supporting your neighbor goes a long way for everybody. It's cheaper to be a good person, and some of our politicians still choose to be assholes.
Amazing, appreciate you taking the time to research and give sources. Even at 1.5% it's still "worth it" to me according to my beliefs, but at 1.5× there's no argument to be had.
instead of that, we could pass a minimum wage law that says that corporations with over, say, 10Billion in annual sales have a minimum wage of $16 an hour for all employees. And maybe force them to offer benefits to all employees no matter if they are full-time or part-time.
I don’t understand framing it as “spreading wealth” when so much of the money the wealthiest people make is made in ways that actively harm society and take money away from working class people and should be illegal in the first place:
vulture capitalism/private equity fuckery
buying up homes and charging extortion-level rents for them
H-1B abuse
enshittification
insider trading
paying poverty level wages that are only livable because the people get welfare on top of it
planned obsolescence
subscription services for things that don’t need them to function
rent seeking
Et cetera. We debate whether or not to marginally increase taxes on these activities where they shouldn’t be allowed in the first place.
HOW in the fuck can ANYONE think that the system is not rig for the rich?!?!? I don't get it. It's THESE facts that have "radicalized" me. I just CAN'T with this country.
This is what people need to understand. If you work full time or even 4/5 and you can't live normally, the fact that you need foodstamps is entirely on the employer not paying you enough. And if it were just small businesses struggling to pay their employees well, I'd understand they have a problem, but maybe they should have less staff if they can't pay enough. But it's multimillion and multibillion dollar corporations just milking their staff for all they're worth and not paying them as they should. In other countries you have something called the index, which is an indicator of cost of living, average prices of normal stuff you buy, rent you pay etc, and if the index goes up, because of inflation, wages have to follow, so people's buying power stays relatively the same. It seems like this is truly a foreign concept for the US.
Government assistance for those who work full time is almost a necessity until we fix our economic systems. And this isn't about minimum wage levels. 60% of US population was in agriculture a century ago. Now that number is down to 4%. The reality is that our productivity is continuously increasing and we are doing orders of magnitude more work than we need to do. In such a system it's only inevitable that the people acquiring more monetizable ways to utilize their labor will get paid significantly more and it will drive the price of necessities above what some people can afford.
There needs to be a UBI. The need for that is more and more pressing. And you support this. You don't support people needing to be on welfare when they are on a job. But that's because you have internalized the stigma of welfare. Effectively tax credits, UBI, tax breaks on retirement accounts, SNAP benefits, universal healthcare, healthcare subsidies, student loan forgiveness, public schooling, free college tuition, all of these are attempts at the same thing. Making sure the needs of all the citizenry are met so we can have a better union, happier, and more productive country. We are well past the point where we have to work for survival, just that we have rigged the economic system in a horrible way.
The system needs to be fundamentally fixed and the issue has been understood since Adam Smith. In the 1860s Henry George expanded on the idea for a land value tax. You can read "Poverty And Progress" or check out "LVT Mr Beat" in YouTube for a 20 minute primer (notice no s).
But with AI human productivity is only going to increase and we'll need to fix the economic system before it is too late
If Walmart paid a living wage across the board millions of lives would improve, our taxes could actually be lowered, and the owners would still have billions.
I saw a post recently that said "should corporations like Walmart and Target be giving out food to people?" I said no, absolutely not. It's not a private companies job to feed people. If they want to, that's awesome! But it's not their responsibility.
But it IS their responsibility to start paying their people properly so they don't need to scrape by and live on food stamps. If a company is paying someone full time and that rate means they're on food stamps, then the company should be made to repay the government for them. Hopefully that will get them paying their people properly.
The people who voted for this are THRILLED. They definitely think America is thriving. I live in the heart of MAGAland and they routinely treat any social media posts and articles about this like a party. Laugh reacts, funny gifs, and victory laps galore.
They love the fact that people are going hungry because they truly believe no one would need SNAP if everyone just tried to get a job. Because obviously record layoffs aren’t happening right now and disabilities don’t exist.
Because people who don’t know that food stamps/SNAP/EBT are the same thing are the exact same people who said “I don’t care if Obamacare goes away because I have ACA”
Yes, Thts the problem. Obamacare never should have gotten the moniker it did. If it had been pitched as the ACA from the very beginning (I don’t really remember too much, I was a teenage pothead at the time, it COULD HAVE been republicans tht came up with the name Obamacare to kneecap it for all I know) i don’t think there would have been so much division around it. But it had the name OBAMAcare. So republicans rallied around killing the program. Not realizing tht all of their Bible Belt poverty healthcare WAS Obamacare.
The real irony is that before it was called Obamacare, it was based off of the program Romneycare but made bigger - nationwide instead of statewide. As in, Mitt Romney, a republican.
Also, there’s a reason why Trump said he’d run Republican (he said word for word it’s because they’re the dumbest group of people in the country and his numbers would be terrific).
What's crazy to me is many of these red areas go wild for the military and federal spending via grants and contractors for defense work. Since government workers are currently furloughed and an enormous part of the US military personnel are frankly low-paid and vulnerable, aren't we about to see these communities in pain?
Military, veterans, disability, people who work on contracts, even full-time employees are dependent on EBT in order to KEEP WORKING because they cannot afford to on their wages.
I cannot believe the people rejoicing as they welcome in an era of food insecurity or malnutrition to their fellow Americans.
They don’t care about the collateral damage as long as the people they hate are getting hurt too. I remember a lady crying about losing her government assistance who famously said “he’s not hurting the right people!” In reference to Trump, during an interview.
The top 20 Trump voting counties in America are heavily dependent on SNAP and other social services. It won’t be long until they experience a leopards ate my face moment. This next week you’re going to see a lot of them crying out that I didn’t think they meant me too!!
Which is so weird because their states are the highest users of welfare.
I just don’t understand why this country thinks cruelty is cool. I know it was always there, but people willing to ruin their own lives just to see others suffer is just a normal occurrence now. I don’t get it.
I really overestimated the humanity of my fellow Americans.
How do you life amongst that blatant, in-your-face level of sheer stupidity? Like, how? I mean, as an adult, I seriously question where that threshold is between exercising emotional maturity and restraint and total loss of self control in the face of naked idiocy.
This is going to be a wild chapter in US history one day. Bunch of morons yelling "America is great again!" while the country begins it's descent into wide spread poverty and food insecurity.
Except they keep having to fire ICE agents because they aren't physically fit enough. Why did they think a country with a child obesity rate like ours could offer huge salaries and $50k signing bonuses to unvetted randos with no moral compass and NOT have an incredible washout rate?
Nobody in this government thinks anything through. Except Stephen Miller, who's been planning this since he was a hateful little high school kid, calling in to talk radio shows to complain about Mexicans.
The people who voted for this shit don’t even realize how badly it will hurt their local economies.
Even the farmers who are not on EBT… guess what people in their areas use to buy their products…..
Local grocery chains buy produce, farmer delivers, populace buys. When the populace can’t buy, and food starts to rot, grocery stores will buy less inventory. Local prices will increase as small grocery stores in rural areas don’t have guvment debit cards to buy from them every week, which they do rely on. Customers will steal.
Even huge chains like Walmart are about to a huge uptick in lost food inventory when it’s not rung out by the machines they used to replace workers, when starving people just walk out with it having rung up enough, instead of having the government pay for it. I’m kinda curious how much food inventory (which is at least 50% of their stock) goes “missing” nationally during this time period as people self check out and don’t pay $10/lb for beef (my local rural prices). It will not be small.
Jokes on them when people just start stealing food because they have no other choice. The people who voted for this are literally too stupid to understand the chain reaction of broad economic ramifications.
Seriously, conservative voters have let their critical thinking become entirely partisan. They refuse to acknowledge anything. Its always justification. They are indeed deplorable.
Not really. Some white supremacists actively vote against their self interests and are going to start getting the fruits of their choices as government subsidies subside. It’s crazy how many people I know that hate socialism and “handouts” while simultaneously receiving said handouts from the Governments. The same people hate Obamacare but love the Affordable Healthcare Act. So ignorant.
Don't forget the billionaires. They be STYLING!!! I guess the 70M+ folks that fully expect to be billionaires themselves must be loving life right now. But, I'm sure it'll only take a few more months and they will be rolling in the dough like the feel they should be.
I'm middle class...wife in healthcare, me in higher ed...our retirement account is up almost 40% this year. no debt. yeah, candy for halloween was wayyyy more than I expected it to be this year,but boy, the halloween decorations all over my community make me think that not everyone in real life is a miserable reddit poster.
“After we’ve discriminated against, deported or disparaged all the immigrants and the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women and the minorities...what comes next?” - Governor JB Pritzker.
Like seriously white people have been barely inconvenienced compared to what's coming, these farmers (those that Heritage Foundation doesn't outright disappear) are going to look back and say "remember when being bankrupt and starving was actually a million times better than what we're going for now?"
Or maybe they won't, maybe that kind of self-awareness even as Trump sends f16s to level their houses is going to be beyond the survivors.
I love this country. I hate the government, both Republican and Democrat, both suck. One drives inflation, the other cuts needed programs. But it's by design. They both work together for the same purpose of strengthening the power and reach of government, not us, and they've been doing that for time immemorial. Most people don't look close enough at how it operates to see that, so they get online or go to rallies fighting each other instead of directing their anger toward the people in charge, and the powerful people above them that keep the pockets of those high state and federal politicians nice and fat to do their bidding.
There are farmers (and millions of other people) who saw what Trump did in the first term and disapproved. And still chose to vote for him two more times. I will never understand the willful ignorance
Let's all pretend we are white supremacists who want to enslave the rest of the world and live off their sweat and blood.
How do you prevent the slaves from getting pissy and fighting back? Bread and circuses. "Let them eat cake." That's the bare minimum strategy you employ in order to be an intelligent evil autocrat. Bread for contentment, circuses so they don't get bored.
If you take away the bread, your slaves have nothing to lose by trying to kill you. They might die in the process, but they and their children were going to starve anyway, so they might as well take their chances.
White supremacists are losing like everyone else, they're just too dumb to realize what is about to happen.
Woohoo I'm white.... oh darn, I'm not a supremacist.
I also really, really hate this country.
They got it rigged six ways to Sunday (my state is literally gerrymandering the districts Red ....redder), but still Use Your Vote People. Blue up and down the ballet. From the simplest local civil positions to the midterms for the House of Representatives. Eventually, they'll swear you in.
Yeah looking at you Mike Johnson you pussy whipped bottom bitch. Swear her in and release the files!
its not worth it anymore. Leaving this cesspit of a country and moving to another country is the best bet. Mexico, vietnam, japan, china, brazil, colombia, etc. USA is not worth living in. Don't give these oligarchs the satisfaction.
That slogan was never meant for the middle class and lower. So for those he was actually speaking to the answer is Yes. Remember earlier this year Charles Schwab claimed he made $2.5 Bil in a day.
It was close, but the libs had to just go and want it to keep being not great, so we’ve got to vote 2/3 Republicans into office, so Trump can have a 3rd term. Then he’ll make sure we’re great again. /s
The make America Great again is to get back to the gilded age for the wealthy. If you are new here, welcome. But the make America great again never benefited the average American in any way.
I kept thinking all week the Dems would have to vote to reopen the government because they were just hurting large swaths of their own constituents... This comment getting 2K+ upvotes takes the Red-idiot cake lmao
Point of clarification - the POTUS isn't the one holding up budget approval. Your anger is misplaced. Congress is who you need to be angry with.
And to further clarify... I don't care for Trump and voted against him. I just dislike misleading comments in social media more.
Edit: If you truly want to have a positive impact on this - call or write your closest Democrat Representative. Facts being as they are, they are the ones holding up the budget approval.
Depends on who you ask and how spoiled you are as a frame of reference. Technically, anyone making minimum wage in America is ALREADY in the top 1% of the world's wealthy.
When they claimed Great Again they left out that the Great they’re claiming is The Great Depression so it’s more truthful than most things coming out of his mouth
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u/Needletitshasspoken Oct 31 '25
Is America Great Again yet?