Political Memes

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.

I used to work for a small software company that had had hired a DC lobbying firm and gotten their hands on a $12 million per year pork grant that was ostensibly to be used for improving manufacturing in our (very rural and very red) state. My company couldn't just pocket this money, so instead they had set up another corporation which was probably a legitimate legal entity but was actually run by one of our employees out of a closet-sized office rented in a generic building downtown. This mostly bogus corporation would dole out the $12 million to other companies (most of which weren't even really in our state) which would in turn hire us as consultants at inflated hourly rates to produce software that nobody ever used. And as anyone could expect, the owners of my company were rabid conservatives who loved to rant about "welfare queens".

You could call this "one hand washing the other" but "circle jerk" is a lot more appropriate. And this little bit of corruption was an absolute drop in the fucking bucket in terms of what's really going on out there.

It highlights how ridiculous "the rich will give to charity" is.

Every corp will offload costs to taxpayers and avoid paying their own taxes as much as legally possible. Anything else would make stock prices go down, and that is actually illegal. They're legally required to "maximize share holder value". Giving crumbs to charity and PR, so it's fine.

Actually paying their fair share, would make the oligarchs want to make an example of whatever CEO did it.

Welfare queens is putting it lightly. They think they are entitled to everything from everyone everywhere. And they don't want laws to apply to them, and they think they can use the Us military and intelligence agencies as means to bully the world to give them what they want. They fill the media with propaganda, they poison the minds of your children. And they are ruining life in this planet for this and future generations.

Some context:

My Canadian province has the lowest minimum wage at $15/hour. ($10.71 USD)

They manage to pay that and still make a killing here.

Working at Walmart was how I found out I qualify for food stamps in the first place.

Socialise the cost, privatise the profit.

Same for McDonald's

It would be amazing if all employment below a certain pay threshold included SNAP benefits automatically, listed right on the paystub along with everything else. The threshold could be set so as to encourage higher wages and longer term employment.