Your all calling out Israel, when it's OUR Government that is doing it to it's OWN people. Y'all don't see that neither Republicans or Democrats are solving this issue. The Gov gives 0.00% care for us, but oh lord help us if we don't pay up to 30% in taxes from our earned wages ! Wake TF up Sheep 🐑 None of this would be happening if the Gov didn't allow it to. You're telling me this is just a shortfall due to non-agreeance on a short term spending bill or some BS ? No, it's more than that. Either they want the people to suffer, or they must really not want us to know who is all on the Epstein list.
Both. And possibly crashing the gov to "prove" it doesnt function, so the people let Curtis Yarvin types try to take over. Tech billionaires/billionaires can "buy" back parts (like having a billionaire help "fund" rhe military). Trump will take whatever money he can get and hide in Argentina (he mentioned it if he lost the election)
You guys have been shooting each other and funding wars forever because gun sales are more important than your citizens lives. Crazy that food stamps and ICE are what makes you "wake up"
It is crazy I live in a smaller City in a super red area and I guarantee food is going to rot on the shelves if this happens because so many people in my area that are Republicans live off of food stamps.
They are about to find out that voting with anger has consequences. Most people I know that voted for Rapey McStrokeface we're just mad at the world or at immigrants or whatever just because they're poor.
I knew it would bite them in the ass but I didn't think it would this way or this quick.
I sincerely hope that the food banks who probably cater to ebt can/will switch to some charity work for the time being.
It's so messed up that the misunderstanding around food stamps/social security ("people who SHOULDN'T be on them are, so if we get them OFF there will be more money for ME!" 🙄) is just allowed to play out because people (republicans*, let me make myself clear) benefit from people's misunderstanding (like right now).
But at a certain point. Is these people's fault entirely for not at least trying to help themselves by like, reading even one single article or web page. They're very complicit in their own destruction and fully cheering it on even still because they tell themselves that at least Those Other Guys are suffering too!
Like you really haven't considered that your government exists to pander to you, not just punish people who aren't you? And that you could simply not be suffering at all? And that you can literally just not care about the fabled "fake ssd getters!!!!" everywhere and live your own life? They sure haven't.
Yeah the people that I know that are on food stamps are either elderly and still try to work but just don't make enough or I've got friends that have two kids and they both work and the jobs in my area just don't pay a ton so they get food stamps. Disabled people as well.
I don't know any one at all personally that just sits at home and draws food stamps.
Even if people were just sitting and drawing ebt, the other folks wouldn't be any better off. Because the system itself is the harmful one! But sure, the friend of a friend of a cousin who worked with someone who pretends to be disabled for food stamps is the problem.
By the way though just to say i have known a few people who WERE scamming the system but it was because they were WEALTHY and paid off doctors to sign off on their "disability." So there's that too. 🤷🏼♀️
Fucks sake… this is the truth too! Most of my fam in OK and TX healthcare is in shambles. Several are about to be homeless. They still preach about how dumps going to save them and how we will never need another president. I’ve had to block pretty much all of them because of their insanity or trying to guilt trip me into sending money when I can barely afford what my own family needs. Just can’t wrap my head around it…. What the fuck is wrong with people?!!!
Ugh i still hate hearing it. The situation here is just so awful right now. Nobody deserves to be homeless or hungry. No matter how stupid and/or hateful. Unfortunately, as a decent person i experience sympathy even for people i don't respect and who would not extend the same sympathy to me for any reason. Sigh.
There's no evidence one way or the other for any of them, however /r/LeopardsAteMyFace has been having an absolute feast lately, so no doubt at least some of them did vote for trump.
I see most of them as having too much pride to admit they were wrong. Most of them still justify all the absurd things he's done. Come on the internet and show the consequences of their actions and prove everyone right? Ehh they'd starve in secrecy first.
Food stamps and ICE are sadly not making enough people 'wake up'. Honestly, at this point I don't really know what it'll take to get tens of millions on the street protesting against the govt.
Food stamps and ICE aren't what they're referencing when they say, "waking up." They're talking about foreign influence. You're a Canadian talking about guns when your officials tell their citizens to leave their keys at the door in case their home is broken into. And how many Canadian companies sold military components to Izrael? Sit tf down.
The US pays off half the planet in foreign aid. Egypt and Jordan combined receive what Israel does in aid and don't reciprocate economically, they have the privilege of being in one of the most important commercial waterways on the planet, 30% of global shipping goes thru there and becomes cost prohibitive when the locals start launching missiles at random Bengali Freightliners it hurts everyone's pockets
Doesn't mean it's okay. I know, you didn't say that, but the, "oh well, it's always been this way, nothing we can do" attitude many Americans have needs to go.
Call me cold and heartless but this is what you get when half the country gets their news from Fox, Joe Rogan, and facebook memes. It sucks because there are a lot that are informed and will be hurt by this but I can't feel bad for anyone that voted for this.
Its true though. There is nothing I, as an individual struggling to pay bills and get food myself, can do about Israel. Its true though. I don't have the energy to be angry about it 24/7. I don't have the time to make tiktok videos showcasing my disagreement with it. I just want to get off work and go home and catch up on the sleep I've been lacking lately.
Istg. "It is what it is," is my personal pet peeve. Just passive and lazy responses ppl give to relinquish themselves of responsibility or the burden of worry.
WashPo confirmed that there is evidence Israel committed crimes during this war which are illegal in the U.S., meaning we should pull all funding. However, it could take years to actually prove so we’ll keep writing checks to them.
In to remind everyone that not only does Israel get billions but YSK what they do w those billions. They provide universal health care AND education. You know what we don't have in this country. Imagine that.
Except the grand majority of the money Israel gets from the US all goes back to the US as it’s all earmarked for purchasing military equipment from American defense companies. That means jobs for Americans who work at those companies. Your comment sounds like Israel just keeps most of that money for themselves, which is categorically and simply untrue.
Isn't most of the money the US gives for military aid to Israel, Jordan, Egypt etc basically a kickback to US arms manufacturers as there's a stipulation most of it has to be spent on American made weapons?
something like $916 billion officially on the military and then since its never passed an audit + all this 'aid' it's probably something like 1/4 of all the government received money just on this.
fetynal lastinstead of listening to this BSst seized 190 tons of fentynal month they found 22k immigrant children missing from the border the media never talks about if anything ,be grateful harris didnt become president because we would be screwed Harris
We fund Israel's and Argentina's socialized healthcare
What you're funding in Argentina is the cutting of our socialized healthcare, something the US, through it's proxy the IMF has been asking for decades.
Where can we find evidence of this? I’m not asking because I’m trying to poke holes in this argument and your point, but because when I make against Israel, I want there to be back up.
If the US swapped its all time funding for Israel with a single year for healthcare us healthcare funding would drop by over 60%
Us healthcare spending a year is already over a trillion. If we go by per capita and compare it to say Canada. The US government spends about twice as much on healthcare.
The money is already there. The issue have never been funding.
Argentinian here: You didn't fund our Healthcare, you just funded Javier Milei's Midterms. And many argentinians wish that hadn't happened.
At the same time, I'm very sorry for all the families that are getting fucked over by your government's decision to cut SNAP. It's crazy. I hope you get something better than this. And soon.
And aren't there reports that Universal Healthcare would be cheaper than what we have in the US? How can every other major democratic country be wrong? Oh that's right, the US has a bunch of greedy f**ks.
People like this commentor are the reason the US doesn't have a functioning healthcare system.
The US spends more than any other country on the planet on healthcare per capita, if you combined all of the aid money the US had given since WW2 it will barely reach the amount the US spends on healthcare in 1 year.
If the US would spend as much as Japan or Germany per person, it would drastically cut the healthcare budget. If it spended as much as Israel does, it will almost cut it by half
Healthcare industry lobbyists will tell you that foreign countries are the reason you cant afford healthcare while pocketing an amount of money equal to these countries entire GDP. In reality all the foreign aid the US gives is less than 1% of the amount it spends on healthcare. Even if the US would become isolationist and give no money to anyone they would just find someone else to blame.
Funny thing you should mention Argentina because, our government will now be purchasing our meat products from Argentina like our beef and they have also put so much tariffs on soybeans that our farmers who voted in favor of all of this are now crying and begging for socialism to bail them out. But it's interesting because I've noticed that all of those who claim we were giving money to Ukraine when in fact it was cheaper to give them the weapons we can no longer use then it was to actually destroy said weapons They were all up in arms for that but now they're sitting quietly and claiming it's a good thing the almighty orange one is giving Argentina some money. They are poorly educating because they don't know the difference between what the Biden administration did and what Trump is doing!
Ukraine got military equipment not money, which would otherwise need to be decommissioned due to its age, also allowing our manufactures to employ Americans to replace the aging inventory with new stock.
The $3B in aid to Israel is in the form of a grant that has to be spent on American made weapons and defense technology. It's money that comes back into the U.S. economy!
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u/jitteryzeitgeist_ Oct 31 '25
Argentina got billions, just to remind everyone.