Kris W
Qasim Rashid, Esq.Annual cost of SNAP: $113B
Annual revenue lost through billionaire tax evasion: $163B
GOP: The only solution to our debt crisis is cutting $113B in food benefits. Also here’s $4T more in tax cuts for billionaires
Amber 
@QasimRashid what I don’t like about people blindly putting a cost to stuff like SNAP is that nobody bothers to see how that feeds back into the economy. See, when people aren’t starving to death they can join the workforce (not all of them obviously but not a small amount either). Giving people UBI would be a net positive for the economy because it would be fed back into it. People would purchase things, people would get an education etc. I wonder if anyone has tried to quantify the "return on investment" that social benefits/welfare actually has. It’s not like the money is going into the trash like with a billionaire who adds it to their hoard. It’s going to someone who uses it to buy food, going back to farmers etc.
Maple (plampt arc) 
🌸🍁@puppygirlhornypost2 @QasimRashid
The US Department of Defense actually wrote this book a while back where they said you can prevent revolution and insurrection by meeting people's needs. The federal policy of public works in occupied territory was more socdem than anything ever tried locally. They do give the statistics on how education impacts the economy, how ubi impacts the economy, how free healthcare etc...
It's the Counterinsurgency Manual, and you want the more recent 2 editions.
The US Department of Defense actually wrote this book a while back where they said you can prevent revolution and insurrection by meeting people's needs. The federal policy of public works in occupied territory was more socdem than anything ever tried locally. They do give the statistics on how education impacts the economy, how ubi impacts the economy, how free healthcare etc...
It's the Counterinsurgency Manual, and you want the more recent 2 editions.
NosirrahSec 🏴☠️ guillotine enthusiast@puppygirlhornypost2 @QasimRashid The intent isn't to actually make sense.
Their target audience is too stupid to understand the big picture. They don't need to be right, they just need to demonize someone that is unable to defend themselves.
They can't target the real problems, because they're the ones that are funding them.
It doesn't matter if you prove without a shadow of a doubt that assistance is a positive for nearly everyone in society. The rich funding their campaigns to stay in power do not want to give up that fraction of their immense wealth. It's easier and cheaper to buy out the scum in congress, municipal-level officials, etc.
This wouldn't work in a world with an educated, engaged, populace. Right-wing MAGAts are too stupid to vote for their own benefit, so they vote for whoever hates minorities as much as they do. It's that simple.
@puppygirlhornypost2 @QasimRashid Many studies have been done on the dollar in/dollar out for SNAP.
It's a clear benefit to the country that saves us billions.
The Jack of Sandwich@puppygirlhornypost2 @QasimRashid when people get SNAP they buy food. That money pays people at the grocery store, and in the food production industry. That money again recirculates in the economy... bubbling up to those billionaires like everything else does, but it helps other people in the process
BroGle@QasimRashid what I don’t understand is why billionaires with private companies don’t pull themselves up with their bootstraps? Why hard working people have to pay their debts with people’s taxes
TheFwGuy 🇪🇺🇮🇹🇺🇸🖖@BroGle @QasimRashid The answer is easy.
They are billionaire because hard working people pay their debts.
You can't become a millionaire and even less billionaire just working honestly.
You MUST steal, cheat, exploit and be the nasty, greedy, dishonest person on this planet to become one.
They are billionaire because hard working people pay their debts.
You can't become a millionaire and even less billionaire just working honestly.
You MUST steal, cheat, exploit and be the nasty, greedy, dishonest person on this planet to become one.
Dark Phoenix 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇵🇸🏳️🌈@QasimRashid parasites, every fucking one of them. Except Mark Cuban.
@QasimRashid
and Mackenzie Scott.
https://thephilanthropist.ca/2023/05/meet-the-wealthy-next-gen-donors-practising-social-justice-philanthropy/
and Mackenzie Scott.
https://thephilanthropist.ca/2023/05/meet-the-wealthy-next-gen-donors-practising-social-justice-philanthropy/
Meet the wealthy next-gen donors practising social justice philanthropy - The Philanthropist Journal
With the largest intergenerational wealth transfer ever underway, philanthropy would be wise to take heed. A recent study by the Women’s Philanthropy Institute offers a snapshot of wealthy young donors, from motivations to challenges to giving behaviours. “We’re at the tipping point,” says one sector leader, of where to go next in engaging young donors to “become partners in systems change” and the “shifting of money and power.”
Nicole ParsonsWe need more news coverage with faces & names of those responsible for "better living for billionaires only" programs...
McConnell & his donors in #KochNetwork
https://www.salon.com/2020/07/29/senate-gop-rejects-pandemic-food-stamp-aid-while-calling-to-double-three-martini-lunch-deduction/
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/mcconnell-welfare-work/626586/
https://www.ontheissues.org/economic/Mitch_McConnell_Welfare_+_Poverty.htm
Ultra Verified 🇺🇦 🇬🇱Great viewpoint and reporting at Salon, but this will never ever been seen on any network, high volume print or internet 'news' outlet.
Mainstream media does catch up with issues if there's enough interest.
Public sentiment is malleable.
MSM is in the business of "eyeballs on screens" but the lag time is increasing, yes.
One thing that got people suddenly interested in Social Security cutbacks is realizing that care for dementia-plagued grandparents or palliative care parents devolves to them personally.
Can you afford your suddenly indigent relatives moving in with you?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/carolynrosenblatt/2012/03/24/a-startling-reality-your-aging-parent-runs-out-of-money/
A Startling Reality: Your Aging Parent Runs Out of Money
When your aging parent outlives her money, you have decisions to make. Should you have her move in? Support her care? Learning about their limited choices is sobering for low income elders. Boomers can avoid the pitfalls your parents make with good long term financial planning for yourself.
I can tell you 40 years ago that the local NPR station I worked at was pressured by local businesses and politicians to twist news coverage. I was only there part time and I heard the internal dismay.
'Corporate sponsorship' tends to poison reporting, no matter how many disclaimers are spoken.
I got in quite an exchange on that "hellhole that shall not be named" with Scott Simon about this very thing.
The denial is palpable. So is the distortion of news reporting.
I am that aging parent and my health is potentially failing. Still working at age 70.
Have a daughter and grandson at home - - right now they're at risk due to challenges they have. I don't know what will happen to them if I become incapacitated.
So yeah. I get it.
All of it.
But it shouldn't have to be this way, for journalists to actually report honestly and in proportion to the impact on so many people's lives.
Republicans see the role of government as the furtherance of enriching the already rich.
Service to the taxpayers paying for government isn't even on their radar screen.
Mainstream media is the messaging wing of those robber barons.
TC Won't Give In To Lies@Npars01 @Ultraverified @QasimRashid
MSM catches up to issues ...when they are unable to distract from them.
And most media is dominated by messaging prpvided by professional distraction artists, eg communication teams or that idiot savant conman Trump.
@TCatInReality @Ultraverified @QasimRashid
Yes.
Trump tends to blurt out his most outrageous statements when there's a small chance of damaging messaging making it through that daunting gauntlet of noise.
Whenever he does this, I go looking for articles about his billionaire donors, Putin, or OPEC.
@TCatInReality @Npars01 @QasimRashid
More than just Trump.
This started in 60s. It's how we got Nixon, Kissinger, Reagan, Newt Gingrich, the Bushes and the whole kit and kaboodle. Lies. Distortions. Hysteria. Extremism. Racism. Fear.
Even Barry Goldwater said (after many years) these people are nuts.
MSM cares about Making. Money.
They don't give one damn about truth, justice, decency, fairness, or humanity. At all.
@Ultraverified @Npars01 @QasimRashid
Agreed
I was just highlighting Grump because he clearly doesn't use a comms team. He has his own, innate talent for manipulating the public sphere developed over decades
☮️https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supplemental_Nutrition_Assistance_Program#Impact
"Researchers have found that every $1 that is spent from SNAP results in $1.73 of economic activity. In California, the cost-benefit ratio is even higher: for every $1 spent from SNAP between $3.67 to $8.34 is saved in health care costs."
So, when we spend $113bn* on food stamps the ROI (return on investment) is, at minimum, $195bn.
