About 12% of the population in on SNAP

[el midgetron]

That is such a tired, bullshit, false narrative.


Actually, the oligarchs are parasites.

First, it's the workers who produce, not the oligarchs.

labor is a commodity. Your team has spent several years importing millions of unskilled worker to do American jobs for less. The answer isn’t to increase taxes.

 

[JoeB131]

No one was actually paying your parasitic tax 90% tax rate. The government spends more today than it did during WW2. Problem solved.

Well, no, not as a percentage of GDP, it didn't.

When you advocacy to take 90% of someone’s earnings, that’s slave labor.

Oh, boo-hoo, I am only having to limit myself to two dressage Horsies and one mansion. Boo-hoo.

Your little Anti-Chinese meme-

1) The US has more people in coercive prison Labor than China does, even though we only have a fifth of their population.

2) China has 56 ethnic groups, even though 91% of the population is Han Chinese (as is the lovely Mrs. B131). While their ongoing conflict with the Uyghurs is unfortunate, Uyghurs only make up 0.8% of the population of China. Compare that to how we are treating Hispanics (13% of the population) or blacks (12% of the population) and you can kind of see the hypocrisy.

3) Uh-huh. Doesn't sound much worse than my workplace. The reality of China is that over the last 40 years, it's raised 300 million people into the middle class, mostly working in factories. Compared to the US, where the middle class is in decline. (Even faster with Cheeto Hitler in charge.)

 

[candycorn]

Yep. More than half of SNAP recipients live in states that voted for Trump in 2024.

But don't tell the MAGAs. They will hate you for ruining their bizarre, ignorant, stupid narratives about the poor.

You’re correct.

 

[Couchpotato]

Well, hardly the top 10%. Maybe just the top 1% that has 43% of the wealth.

Wealth concentration is not good for the economy, regardless of what they tell you on Hate Radio.

If wealth were more evenly distributed, the economy would be stronger. We know this, because we've done it

We don’t have a revenue problem we have a spending one. The us federal government takes in more tax money than any other county on the planet by a wide margin.

 

[leftwinger]

Actually, I pointed them out all the time and pretty consistently.

That you weren't paying attention is on you.

All talk. No action. Since 2008. Nothing bu dirty Stain talk.

 

[dudmuck]

We don’t have a revenue problem we have a spending one. The us federal government takes in more tax money than any other county on the planet by a wide margin.

 

[Couchpotato]

OK? Just because we can’t prioritize our spending doesn’t mean we need to just text people more to make up for it. I’m not saying there’s not a problem. I’m saying you’re trying to fix it from the wrong direction.

 

[80zephyr]

Only 12 percent? This nation awash in wralth is arguing about 12 percent on snap? Miniscule.

I wouldn't call 38 trillion in debt awash in wealth.

 

[hadit]

The Billionaire shouldn't have that kind of power.

Why not, if he either built or purchased everything?

 

[Couchpotato]

A billionaire, a working man, and a welfare recipient walk into a restaurant.

A waiter brings out a tray of 12 cookies, the billionaire wolfs down 11 of them and says to the working man, "That welfare bum wants half your cookie".

And you idiots fall for it.

Wow you have seriously shit understanding of economics.

 

[el midgetron]

2) China has 56 ethnic groups, even though 91% of the population is Han Chinese (as is the lovely Mrs. B131). While their ongoing conflict with the Uyghurs is unfortunate, Uyghurs only make up 0.8% of the population of China. Compare that to how we are treating Hispanics (13% of the population) or blacks (12% of the population) and you can kind of see the hypocrisy.

Nope, not really. There is no comparison between how blacks and Hispanics are treated in the US and the human rights abuses in China.

I get it. You support big government, higher taxes and more government spending while at the same time claiming minorities are being genocided by the US government.

 

[Couchpotato]

3) Uh-huh. Doesn't sound much worse than my workplace. The reality of China is that over the last 40 years, it's raised 300 million people into the middle class, mostly working in factories. Compared to the US, where the middle class is in decline. (Even faster with Cheeto Hitler in charge.)

Another case where the talking point doesnt marry up with the facts....

The percentage of Americans in the "middle class" has shrunk about 10% since the 70's. The percentage of the population now in the upper class has grown by 8%. So, you're right the middle class has shrunk. They all got richer.

onic

 

[JoeB131]

We don’t have a revenue problem we have a spending one. The us federal government takes in more tax money than any other county on the planet by a wide margin.

Nope, we have a revenue problem compounded by a wealth inequality problem. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer and more dependent on government. The ironic thing is you are creating the problem you hate so much.

Wow you have seriously shit understanding of economics.

Says the guy whose party brought us 10 of the last 11 recessions (soon to be 11 of 12.)

 

[JoeB131]

Nope, not really. There is no comparison between how blacks and Hispanics are treated in the US and the human rights abuses in China.

I get it. You support big government, higher taxes and more government spending while at the same time claiming minorities are being genocided by the US government.

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Um, first, the Uyghurs are fighting a terrorist insurgency against the Chinese government. That's why the Chinese are treating them harshly. We'd do the same thing if BLM started bombing shit.

Secondly, despite that, Xinjiang has an autonomous region for the Uyghurs...(They also have them for Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Hong Kong, and some other regions)

 

[initforme]

12 percent is a little over 1 in 10. Thats a very low number. Wheres the issue?

 

[el midgetron]

We'd do the same thing if BLM started bombing shit.

Nation-wide rioting and looting, left 30 people dead, and $2 billion in damage. “We” fell over backwards to excuse it.

It’s weird you think the authoritarian Chinese government is doing things the right way, while it’s pumping out new billionaires everyday.

China minted a new billionaire a day last year, Hurun’s Rich List says

A record 1,434 individuals, each with a net worth of more than US$700 million, have made it onto Hurun’s list of China’s richest people.

www.scmp.com

 

[MarathonMike]

Um, first, the Uyghurs are fighting a terrorist insurgency against the Chinese government. That's why the Chinese are treating them harshly. We'd do the same thing if BLM started bombing shit.

Secondly, despite that, Xinjiang has an autonomous region for the Uyghurs...(They also have them for Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Hong Kong, and some other regions)

The Xinping Regime has imprisoned over one million Muslim Uighurs and are forcing them into slave labor camps and having them undergo brainwashing "treatments" and "re-education". Your beloved China is a total police state that spies on it's citizens 24/7 and is worst human rights offender since Pol Pot.

Joe you are either willfully ignorant or just ignorant. Everything I wrote is easily verifiable.

 

[JoeB131]

The Xinping Regime has imprisoned over one million Muslim Uighurs and are forcing them into slave labor camps and having them undergo brainwashing "treatments" and "re-education". Your beloved China is a total police state that spies on it's citizens 24/7 and is worst human rights offender since Pol Pot.

Joe you are either willfully ignorant or just ignorant. Everything I wrote is easily verifiable.

It's amusing when you all pretend you care about Muslims. (I only wish you showed as much concern about the ACTUAL genocide going on in Palestine and not the made-up one in Xinjiang.

 

[JoeB131]

Nation-wide rioting and looting, left 30 people dead, and $2 billion in damage. “We” fell over backwards to excuse it.

It’s weird you think the authoritarian Chinese government is doing things the right way, while it’s pumping out new billionaires everyday.

The fact they are eating our lunch shows they are doing things the right way.

 

[whitehall]

At the same time we know that 37% of Americans are clinically obese. How do we deal with that?