10/26/2023
At this point the question becomes, whose really on welfare, the poor or super rich people and corporations? A conversation we aint never gonna have because too many of y'all think being insulted by rich whipipo will make y'all teeth whiter and y'all ice colder. "CB: They do. And in part because, and this is the part that a lot of people don’t want to really talk about, is that it’s essentially, before the pandemic, it was a $60 billion–a–year subsidy to the food system. That’s what it is. I mean, you’re basically priming low-income Americans to buy more food.
And that’s $60 billion, more now; since the pandemic, it doubled, and now it’s coming back down again, but still, pretty significant; I haven’t looked at the latest numbers. But at the end of the day, it’s as much a subsidy to Walmart as it is to low-income Americans, in a perverse sense."
"Most SNAP families have somebody who's working; they just don't make enough money."
