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.
Every corporate employee in the United States could be paid a living wage, be dignified with healthcare
I’d say every person should have UBI and healthcare regardless of employment status, but I guess your position is a good start.
My ideals extend beyond my pragmatism in my comment. UBI for every human being would be terrific.
I have a medical condition that seems to be cheaper in countries that have socialized healthcare as a non-citizen, than it is here with insurance.
“We the people” indeed.
Now that you point out the distinction, it’s even more shocking that corporate employees don’t even have this guarantee. Even if you buy into all the puritan work ethic shit… okay… these people are working - and they STILL starve?
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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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.
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.
Carrot & Stick. The carrot is you get a fraction of the money you make your boss; the stick is you will live on the street if you don’t. Capitalism needs a pool of desperate/poor/unemployed workers.
Yeah but the rich can’t have a yacht with a yacht and a speedboat and a helicopter and a rocket ship so best we can do is a band aid
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.
The only moral abortion is my own.
This is just how their brains work. It’s us vs them, not right and wrong. That’s why brain damage sometimes turns people into a conservative. I honestly believe their brains are not up to par in some ways.
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.
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.
