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You added the "just", not me. But to your point, there are much, much larger and controversial line items in the budget to argue about than feeding the poor. Pr
by CodingJeebus 11mo ago
You added the "just", not me. But to your point, there are much, much larger and controversial line items in the budget to argue about than feeding the poor. Preventing starvation is important to a functioning society, as widespread hunger has ended many a government throughout history.
- 0_____0 11mo ago100B for SNAP vs 850B for defense in 2024. Interest on govt issued debt was 880B.
- phkahler 11mo agoImagine if the debt were 1 trillion dollars instead of 38! How hard is it to say "no budget increases this year"? And that wouldn't even eliminate the deficit and they can do it.
- weird-eye-issue 11mo agoWhat would be the value of the US dollar if we didn't have a military to back it up?
- esseph 11mo agoAhaha. Wait, did you mean this as ironic comedy, or are you serious?
- weird-eye-issue 11mo agoAnswer the question
- esseph 11mo agoOh at this point, with the way we've treated countries with military action, insane tariffs, masked deportations, embargos/blockades, threatening the sovereignty of a G8 country, threatening to annex another, supporting Israeli genocide, the list goes on... We're on the downward slope now, but it will take awhile. The future requires investments in education, infrastructure, healthcare, and energy generation (in particular, cheap energy), and we're simply not doing it. Being lonely sucks, and the US govt has alienated long standing allies. Economically they doesn't bode well.
- insane_dreamer 11mo agoI’d take that trade any day
- 0_____0 11mo agoYou're going to have to explain your premise, because this question doesn't make sense. What would be the value of my car without the pile of tires in my garage?
- weird-eye-issue 11mo agoLol. You are just too ignorant to even begin having this conversation
- Calavar 11mo ago> there are much, much larger and controversial line items in the budget to argue about than feeding the poor. For example, the 40 billion dollar bailout of the Argentine economy.
- aeternum 11mo ago[flagged]
- CodingJeebus 11mo agoThe problem here is that healthier food tends to cost more, so you'd essentially be forcing people to buy less food unless you also simultaneously raised the disbursement. And then a certain wing of the media starts screaming about how the poor are eating organic salads on the backs of taxpayers. Sounds reasonable in theory but has little basis in our current political reality.
- karakot 11mo agoI hate this common trope about health food costing more. Beans, lentil, rice, potatos, carrots, onions, cabbage, garlic don't cost a lot, add some additional cheap proteins like chicken and eggs and you're good to go for like $50 or less per week per person. And if you can buy in bulk and freeze, then it can get even cheaper.
- Anonbrit 11mo agoAssuming access to a reliable cooker, safe storage, time to food prep and enough education in cooking to be able to cook. Some people on assistance fail all of those boxes, many fail at least one
- insane_dreamer 11mo agoIt’s not a tripe. A lot of these aren’t even available in food deserts, whereas soda and garbage is ubiquitous in every corner stores and gas station etc.
- aeternum 11mo agoCould it be because we are subsidizing that soda and garbage via SNAP? Especially in low income areas? As the great Charlie M used to say: "Show me the incentives and I'll show you the outcome" but we can't change it because that means we are making poor people miserable