🅲🅷🆁🅸🆂 🅷Apr 17, 2023
Qasim Rashid, Esq.

Annual cost of SNAP: $113B
Annual revenue lost through billionaire tax evasion: $163B

GOP: Clearly the only solution to our debt crisis is starving the poor

MAGA GOP says they’ll raise the debt ceiling if they can cut food stamps for low income Americans. 😳 This is supervillian'esque behavior.

Just horrific. Low income people will needlessly starve as a result of this GOP cruelty.

Again, our problem isn't that we can't feed our neighbors in need—it's GOP can't satisfy billionaire greed.

Apr 17, 2023 at 8:12pmMastodon for iOS
Show threadAlexander KarnApr 17, 2023
@QasimRashid For the people in back: “Again, our problem isn't that we can't feed our neighbors in need—it's GOP can't satisfy billionaire greed.”
Show threadLily StarApr 17, 2023
@QasimRashid Annual spending by US MIL to kill people worldwide: $730 Billion
Show threadQasim Rashid, Esq.Apr 17, 2023
@starlily last I checked the military budget was $835B while 1 in 4 military families are food insecure. Wherever that money is going, it sure isn’t to support our men and women in uniform. 😕
Show threadHashApr 17, 2023
@QasimRashid @starlily
Goes to generals.
Show threadexcited for the mastodon riseApr 19, 2023

@QasimRashid @starlily the defense industry is mostly a scam.

It is also not the military, but has managed to make people think they're equivalent.

Show threadGeeden_Of_ArdenApr 17, 2023
@QasimRashid Good god, they are just thieves, stealing food from those who need it, perpetuating and exacerbating our massive hunger and diet problems. The cost to the health care system, so-called, should be enough to shock their greedy little minds. I repeat: They are thieves. Stupid, stupid thieves.
Show threadSteve's PlaceApr 17, 2023

@QasimRashid Only $163B? Including the money laundering?

Some former corrupt ex-POTUS-es in legal hot water might consider such a paltry number an insult to their genius.

Show threadFood_Is_ImportantApr 17, 2023
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Show threadBuy nothing newApr 17, 2023
@QasimRashid Attacking their voting base?
Show threadFroggyMcTicklesApr 17, 2023
@QasimRashid Conservatives have established this sort-of economic Darwinian state of mind where anyone who can’t or is unwilling to sell their souls to keep the capitalist machine running deserves death. Meanwhile; not a single CEO of these major corporations works nearly as hard as blue collar worker. You don’t see Jeff Bezos going up onto a 50 story high rise with just a harness and a hard hat for $60k a year.
Show threadSouthern LeftistApr 17, 2023

@froggymctickles @QasimRashid
"But they're selected for an important position."

Shut up.

Don't care, they've proven themselves to be heartless, profiteers of oppression.

Show threadSouthern LeftistApr 17, 2023

@QasimRashid
In all fairness, this is why we need price caps on shit.

Why does SNAP have to cost that much when we could cap it at, who knows, $20/month?

Billionaires also need to pay up - damn, the conservative brainwashing is brutal today, with all this elitism and right-wing idolization.

Get conservatism out of your head, no matter how one rationalizes it, it is fundamentally neophobia and bigotry... plus susceptibility to rollbacks of civil rights and letting corps ruin lives.

Show threadThomas H Jones IIApr 17, 2023

@QasimRashid

GQP: (cuts social assistance)
People losing assistance: (have to choose between dying and criming)
G: Where's all this crime coming from???

Show threadZaronApr 17, 2023
@QasimRashid same people that say we need to take care of our own first
Show threadSuziApr 17, 2023
@QasimRashid NO
Show threadfritzcokidApr 18, 2023
@QasimRashid call them what they are: wealth hoarders. They are no different than the folks you see on television, just substitute $$ for goods that simply can not be thrown away. "It's mine, and I can not, will not part with it."
Honestly, I believe it's real mental illness. When "Too Much and Not Enough" explains your business model, you've crossed a line.
Show threadDanSApr 18, 2023
@QasimRashid So you’re saying we could spend $20B on forcing tax-evading billionaires to pay up, fully fund SNAP, and still come out $30B ahead!
Show threadWandering CuriousApr 18, 2023
@QasimRashid Not only does SNAP feed people but every SNAP dollar spent generates $1.79 in economic activity in the local economy. It’s a win win.
Show threadBlakeApr 18, 2023
@QasimRashid SNAP has changed my family's life. I can't tell you what it means to be able to buy healthy food for my children--to provide nourishment. It's not just physical health, though there is that--it's culture, connection--it's empowering.
Show threadGrandpa DonApr 18, 2023
@QasimRashid
SNAP is welfare for farmers, big republican corporate factory farm and òrchards, and small, republican family- owed flyover country ones. Dems should get the message to them. Their demand will be cut.
Show threadMattApr 18, 2023
@QasimRashid #GOPDeathCult
Show threadramzeusApr 18, 2023
@QasimRashid What is SNAP?
Show threadPbutlerApr 18, 2023
@QasimRashid the gop wants to kill off the power and the destitute as the believe most are bipoc and unworthy to live.
Show threadgavinisdie Apr 18, 2023
@QasimRashid if a decent chunk of the population doesn't have food, they will most likely revolt
Show threadGurtbeef RobeApr 19, 2023
@QasimRashid no matter how much it helps people, the gop is against any govt program that they or their donors cannot profit from. Tell them you are going to outsource food stamps to private companies and they will suddenly become the biggest supporters of it
Show threadIHateGreedApr 20, 2023
@QasimRashid Greed is a mental illness. I watch these people. Like Elon. Guy wears black t-shirts all the time. It’s about hoarding, not really wanting to live large. Or Queen Elizabeth who hoarded money in offshore accounts. How did those bucks enrich her life? She coveted her dogs. We need to address this as a mental illness.