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In case you’d like to discuss this uncited social media post screenshot with others, a good place to begin would be this Forbes article, which focuses on Walmart primarily. https://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2014/04/15/report-walmart-workers-cost-taxpayers-6-2-billion-in-public-assistance/
This is the very horseshit that the American K-12 public school system brainwashed me into thinking was “socialism”. SNAP is a governmental bandaid that exists as a symptom of a labor market predated upon by the already wealthy.
Every corporate employee in the United States could be paid a living wage, be dignified with healthcare, and know that when their working days are over that they can rest without worrying about housing or food insecurity AND the rich can still have their yacht with a swimming pool.
I don’t want the rich exist, but my point is - if this society wants the rich to exist, okay - I guess, they can, but the very poor don’t have to. That’s an optional thing because our society tolerates artificial scarcities created by the rich.
But... if the people had homes, healthcare, and a general sense of security then they would actually show up to vote, show up to protest, and hold the greedy bastards accountable who have captured the government.
This is why there will never be universal healthcare in the USA.
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It's way more shortsighted than that. It has nothing to do with voting, or protests, or holding people to account.
People having homes, healthcare, and a reasonable quality of life would result in less money for the people at the top of the entire system.
thats why dnc would never support it(pretend to support it knowing there was a backdoor deal between both parties to kill it or neuter it), they need cannon fodder for the military, and low wage just as much as the gop does. once in a while they throw a bone, so both parties wont complain.