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We don't need to get everybody a small fry. We just need to give it to the ones that actually go hungry, and it'll sure go further if it's not wasted on the alr
by malermeister 3y ago
We don't need to get everybody a small fry. We just need to give it to the ones that actually go hungry, and it'll sure go further if it's not wasted on the already comfortable.
- colechristensen 3y agoOne in 8 households experienced food insecurity at some point. So that’s $24 per person experiencing food insecurity. So a couple big mac meals. The point being that a billion dollars is mostly nothing for a population of 330 million. Social security spent 1.4 trillion last year. “We shouldn’t do this thing, we should increase social program spending by 0.06% instead!” is not a good argument.
- verve_rat 3y agoI don't know, if you spend $20k per person feeding them for a year, that one billion can feed 50,000 people. We shouldn't feed 50,000 people and do this other thing instead should probably have a very strong argument.
- colechristensen 3y agoYeah, we spent ~$150 billion in 2023 on national feeding-people programs. SNAP, WIC, and others. Any single person earning less than $1,133 per month gets SNAP (modern day food stamps), higher for larger household sizes. 42 million Americans get SNAP benefits (additional people in other programs) Once again, "let's increase this existing program by 0.1%!" is not a very convincing argument.