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Encourage employment? Do these people think you can somehow live off snap? It doesn't pay for rent, transportation, cooking utensils, napkins, toilet paper... Anything bit uncooked foods. If you want to cut the money needed for snap, increase minimum wage so they make enough money to pay living expenses while working.

My son got $150/mo for SNAP. His SSDI got raised by $75/mo so they reduced his SNAP by $75. Not sure what it is down to now after the new increase.

I don't know if the Republicans have any idea of how to deal with what is coming when it comes to the job market. If software eats the world, AI will eat software...and even all the "good" jobs will soon be scarce to nil - turns out even the "creative" jobs can and will be automated. As expected, the C-suite stuff could be some of the easiest stuff to automate, but that's not where they are going to start eliminating jobs, as you can well imagine. I think some people - myself included - thought that things like trucking and mining would be reduced to basically zero jobs first. But they are shooting for things like writers, animators, software developers, basic lawyer stuff, tax preparation, and it's quite possible those jobs will be most impacted first. So telling your kids to level up on skills? Well, you can fuck right off with any of those skills unless you have a massive pile of money, too.

How are we going to determine how to distribute all the wealth being created when jobs are increasingly going to disappear? We have been playing musical chairs all this time and now the music stops, and it just means that more and more wealth is accrued by dipshits like Elon, while everyone else is kicked harder?

I wonder how long the broligarchs really think that will last? These assholes are building bunkers for a reason, and it's because they know full well the guillotines are going to come out if this reaches what looks to be an obvious conclusion.

Well, we also have billionaires in this country, when that should not even be a thing. It's time to Make America Great Again, and tax these fuckers at 92%. Like the 1950s.

Well yeah, they shoulda had a majority to prevent it! It’s all their fault! /s

In fact, they revel in it. Wallowing in the pool of poor people’s tears, ahhhhh so so good.

Well, prices are so high because too many people are demanding food. Let some starve to death, boom, less demand and lower prices. Get two birds stoned at once. The second bird being MAGA reveling in other people’s suffering.

https://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/thom-hartmann/two-santas-strategy-gop-used-economic-scam-manipulate-americans-40-years/

First, the Two Santas strategy dictates, when Republicans control the White House they must spend money like a drunken Santa and cut taxes to run up the U.S. debt as far and as fast as possible.

This produces three results: it stimulates the economy thus making people think that the GOP can produce a good economy; it raises the debt dramatically; and it makes people think that Republicans are the “tax-cut Santa Clauses.”

Second, when a Democrat is in the White House, Republicans must scream about the national debt as loudly and frantically as possible, freaking out about how “our children will have to pay for it!” and “we have to cut spending to solve the crisis!” Shut down the government, crash the stock market, and damage US credibility around the world if necessary to stop Democrats from spending money.

This will force the Democrats in power to cut their own social safety net programs and even Social Security, thus shooting their welfare-of-the-American-people Santa Claus right in the face.

Yeah but under the current misinformation curve the people who rely on government support the most will direct their anger at those that are trying to help them.

It's going to be a crazy administration as they randomly wail, fight with each other, piss off their donors.

The world is 9 meals away from anarchy

That and things like the tariffs. Just wait until people get a load of that.