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Americans have zero social safety net. A job is our shelter, out healthcare, our food, our everything. If you lose your job youre on the streets. So shit hit

Americans have zero social safety net. A job is our shelter, out healthcare, our food, our everything. If you lose your job youre on the streets. So shit hits a lot harder here.

thegrim33 3y ago
In 2022 the US spent 1.2 trillion dollars, or 19% of the US budget, on our safety net, spent on: EITC and child credits for people without income, SNAP (food subsidies), housing subsidies, SSI (subsidies for disabled/seniors), grants (subsidies for education), TANF (subsidies to transition people into a job), child nutrition programs, head start (preschool subsidies), job training, WIC (food subsidies), child care subsidies, lifeline (utility subsidies), phone subsidies, and medicaid (health care). Literally one fifth of our entire federal budget goes to providing safety nets. This doesn't include state-specific programs and charity. "A job is our shelter, out healthcare, our food, our everything." - The programs listed above cover every single one of these categories. If you can not pay for these things the government will give you money for them. https://federalsafetynet.com/welfare-budget/#:~:text=The%20welfare%20budget%20of%20the,a%20combined%20federal%20welfare%20budget https://federalsafetynet.com/welfare-budget/#:~:text=The%20w....
- DrDeadCrash 3y ago
  Yet, the need is more.
  - thegrim33 3y ago
    You're shifting the goalposts. I was replying to someone that said the US doesn't provide safety nets. It does. It massively does, to the tune of 1.2 trillion per year. That's more spent than the entire income of any European country.
    - hasty_pudding 3y ago
      Wrong. In true midwit fashion you eagerly copied and pasted Wikipedia numbers including children, seniors, and disabled into a discussion about working age Americans. You shifted the goal posts. Other than food stamps there is no safety net available for average working age Americans. I wonder how advanced the human race would be right now if we didn't have to suffer the tide of midwits.
- hasty_pudding 3y ago
  Its easy to be disingenuous with statistics by lumping in categories that the majority of working age Americans dont qualify for. Most of what you copied and pasted from Wikipedia goes to seniors,children, and disabled. The most surefire way to identify a midwit is inability to infer context from a discussion.

Americans have zero social safety net. A job is our shelter, out healthcare, our food, our everything. If you lose your job youre on the streets. So shit hits a lot harder here.

thegrim33 3y ago

In 2022 the US spent 1.2 trillion dollars, or 19% of the US budget, on our safety net, spent on: EITC and child credits for people without income, SNAP (food subsidies), housing subsidies, SSI (subsidies for disabled/seniors), grants (subsidies for education), TANF (subsidies to transition people into a job), child nutrition programs, head start (preschool subsidies), job training, WIC (food subsidies), child care subsidies, lifeline (utility subsidies), phone subsidies, and medicaid (health care). Literally one fifth of our entire federal budget goes to providing safety nets. This doesn't include state-specific programs and charity. "A job is our shelter, out healthcare, our food, our everything." - The programs listed above cover every single one of these categories. If you can not pay for these things the government will give you money for them. https://federalsafetynet.com/welfare-budget/#:~:text=The%20welfare%20budget%20of%20the,a%20combined%20federal%20welfare%20budget https://federalsafetynet.com/welfare-budget/#:~:text=The%20w....

DrDeadCrash 3y ago
Yet, the need is more.
- thegrim33 3y ago
  You're shifting the goalposts. I was replying to someone that said the US doesn't provide safety nets. It does. It massively does, to the tune of 1.2 trillion per year. That's more spent than the entire income of any European country.
  - hasty_pudding 3y ago
    Wrong. In true midwit fashion you eagerly copied and pasted Wikipedia numbers including children, seniors, and disabled into a discussion about working age Americans. You shifted the goal posts. Other than food stamps there is no safety net available for average working age Americans. I wonder how advanced the human race would be right now if we didn't have to suffer the tide of midwits.
hasty_pudding 3y ago
Its easy to be disingenuous with statistics by lumping in categories that the majority of working age Americans dont qualify for. Most of what you copied and pasted from Wikipedia goes to seniors,children, and disabled. The most surefire way to identify a midwit is inability to infer context from a discussion.