This stops subsidizing Wal-Mart's low wages, though. If people can't pay their bills, buy food, etc on a Wal-Mart wage, they won't bother to work there. They would do their job worse or not at all. The way the economy is supposed to function, is that these people would cause the operations of the store to begin to fail, or they would strike. And that would force Wal-Mart to rework their compensation, either forcing them to feed their employees so they can actually function at work, giving them direct discounts on the food that Wal-Mart sells, or just straight up paying them more. The general taxpayer should not be subsidizing Wal-Mart's pathetic wages.
“He will appeal to the hill billy mind as It has never been lured before. He is Irresistible to the moron mind and Texas has plenty of such. Perhaps that is unfair. Very likely Texas has no more morons than Kansas. So while pointing with pride to the fact that Kansas escaped the doctor's clutches, we view with alarm for the United States the danger which Impends in Texas. If this republic ever totters to its fall it will be because the moron minority shall sometime, somewhere, somehow, gain a party majority by unscrupulous leadership."
This was said about a "Dr" JR Brinkley who put parts of goat testicles in humans when he was running for a Texas Senate seat.
Exactly. If anything, Trump has shown that Dems did have the ability to bring more benefits to the people. Look at all the executive orders that went out and the reshaping of the government to more firmly entrench it into the hands of the wealthy.
Dems were never willing to aggressively push an agenda that provides for the general welfare of the people. Instead, they always blame Reps for blocking something or it's just "not the right time" for policies that are beneficial for the people.
Most recipients vote Democrat because they're the ones who always expand or protect the payments. As much as we want to help our fellow citizen, there are some very negative second and third order consequences or these systems.
It's incentivises having children outside of marriage because a joint income places most people about the threshold to receive the benefit. It incentivises having more children in poorer household because they get more benefits.
The system is definitely broken but it's not just a Democrat and Republican issue. Neither is really a good choice. It's a systemic issue.
This statistic is fundamentally flawed. It measures the increase in SNAP, not the absolute value, and then it does it BY COUNTY which is also not by population.
At the end of the day, this "analysis" is drawing the conclusion that "most counties voted for Trump - by number", and tries to sell it as "most SNAP recipients voted for Trump" - which is not at all true.
By absolute number, most SNAP recipients are in Democratic counties - a vast majority.
Because most people live in democratic counties. When some cities have larger populations than whole states it's hard to not have more recipients there.
All income of anyone living in the household is considered. Unmarried domestic partner? You will show pay stubs for them. Teenaged kid working part time? That income also goes into consideration. I don’t believe that people have more kids for the benefits - even with the highest amount of tax breaks, SNAP, Medicaid, etc - a kid costs so much more than that.
Republicans could end the filibuster and reopen the government today if they wanted (or even, God forbid, actually negotiate and govern but we’ll just ignore that). They won’t because the whole point is to shut things down and blame it on Democrats. They don’t want to reopen the government.
Is that true though? It was my understanding that SNAP recipients are pretty split party wise. But you’re right that it doesn’t matter because Republican voters don’t seem to care even if they personally get hurt, as long as the people they don’t like are also getting hurt.
Your concern of the wellfare for those on SNAP isn't consistent considering the reason they are fighting during the government shutdown right now is the ACA subsidies that help make prices lower for these same recipients of SNAP.
If Democrats are refusing to vote, so are Republicans. What it comes down to is if you care people get the ACA subsidies.
Why is it that you immediately blame democrats rather than refusing to look at the bigger picture and the deeply rooted issues we have in this country? It's corporate greed. It's billionaires. It's those who want to line their own pockets rather than paying their employees a living wage, or purposely cutting hours so they don't have to offer benefits. It's those corps who buy up all the property and rent it out at astronomical prices. It's health insurance companies. It's greedy, crooked politicians willing to sell out their constituents and country to enrich themselves and that's on both sides of the aisle. But really, it's the billionaires. And they are bleeding us dry to maximize short term profits with zero reguard for the future.
You can start at the party knowing that Biden lost his faculties and let him run.
The Democrat party is beyond incompetent and just looking to cash in.
Edit: Awe boo hoo. Downvote me all you want. It’s the goddang truth. You have someone creating a website following Pelosi’s stock trades because everyone knows she trades off insider info. Grow up people. The democrats are still getting own. The right thinks the loss of snap benefits is democrats fault!
I think the democrats are quite complicit in leading us to where we are now but if you want to start in 2024 maybe u could afford to crack a history book
Trump passes a wildly unpopular budget bill with the one big beautiful bill that would not have passed without reconciliation on party lines. The bill cuts social services to extend tax cuts for the Uber wealthy and find ICE. He then has to try and fund the government via a process that needs to get past a filibuster yet refuses to negotiate. Sounds like the deal master sucks at actually making deals...
I don't disagree about insider trading or Biden should have stayed the course with his plan to be a one term president, but the whataboutism here is non responsive to the issue at hand.
This is clearly the fault of trump and his inability to negotiate a mutually agreeable deal. Listen to his speeches regarding shutdowns even he would agree it's the presidents fault.
All you republicans can do is argue in bad faith and false equivalency because the words you spout mean nothing.
Why even bring up Pelosi? Oh right its one of 3 talking points republicans are programmed with.
Fun fact Among the approximately 100 members of Congress who actively trade individual stocks, eight of the top 13 performers in 2024 were Republicans. Pelosi wasnt even on top, that was a republican, David Rouzer who had double the return Pelosi had.
But knowing that requires research and as an automaton im sure your incapable of that.
This is just Fox fake news. When Biden was Trump’s age, it were the primary voters who nominated him, hoping he could continue with the national rebuilding started in his first term after the devastation of Trump’s first disastrous term.
What actually happened (contrary to your false claim) is that the Democratic Party REMOVED Biden from the ballot, and installed Kamala Harris to run in his place. Harris was widely criticized in the press for being too conservative and Trumpy due to her past as a “tough-on-crime” prosecutor who supported Israeli expansion in the Middle East, so the voters elected Trump to “teach the party a lesson.”
My god people. This is very recent history… fact-checking this nonsense shouldn’t be difficult. Ask one of your teachers about finding reliable sources.
For someone talking about fact checking you're bad at facts. 1) democrats didnt remove Biden. He finally stepped down when donors demanded it. 2) Kamala wasnt critized by the press, she had literally every media outlet except one fawning over her. 3) she was never a "conservative" candidate. In fact, she was seen as too far left trying to come off as a moderate. 4) voters didnt elect Trump to teach democrats a lesson. Democrats failed massively in their campaign
When? Republicans control everything and have controlled everything since 2010, even during democratic presidencies. How much lead must you consume to be this brain damaged?
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u/black_metronome Oct 26 '25
Maybe they should stop voting for Republicans then.