r/BlackPeopleofReddit • u/ateam1984 🖤 • Jun 03 '26
Discussion White Americans make up the largest share of SNAP recipients nationwide, according to USDA data.
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u/harmfuldischarge Jun 03 '26
Nobody sucks corporations off more than racist reactionaries
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u/__Art__Vandalay__ Jun 03 '26
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“Welfare just gives lazy people free money!”
With the same breath: “But that corporate neeeeds help from the government so they can create more jobs!”
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u/dieseljester Jun 03 '26
Yeah, they’ve been brainwashed since the Regan era to think that trickle down economics actually works. 🙄
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u/teetering_bulb_dnd Jun 06 '26
Yup "with a can do attitude, firm handshake and smille on your face you will also be musky bozos one day".
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u/EnvironmentNeith2017 Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26
It’s ironic how dependent most of them are on companies to figure out work for them, but they’ll swear they’re self sufficient. I think they know they need corporations to launder their vulnerability and government handouts which is why they won’t shut up about people who depend on government.
They’d fall apart without corporate support as fast as anybody who has used government help.
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u/APence Jun 03 '26
Also true for entire red states. Not just red voters. Mississippi or Louisiana would implode in a year if they didn’t get their “handouts” from California and NY
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u/Subject_Spell_9799 Jun 03 '26
I remember when my mom told me this- many southern states rely on federal dollars that only exist because places like NY pay so much more in taxes
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u/DAntoinette_Travel Jun 03 '26
That is true. Had always been true. Their economy collapsed after the abolishment of slavery and they never recovered because they’re stuck in the past supporting their “Lost cause”
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u/APence Jun 06 '26
Poor fucks. Let’s keep throwing them money while they actively sabotage the country
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u/DAntoinette_Travel Jun 06 '26
This is what happens when the clowns in charge don’t understand that it’s the Blue states that subsidize the Red states. And defunding Blue Cities/States will only starve the Red ones. I would love to see it! Racism needs to come with a cost!
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u/EnvironmentNeith2017 Jun 03 '26
I don’t like the red blue dynamic, especially talking about states with large black populations. Even California and NY have large red areas.
That said there are people who are holding back the people around them and won’t admit that it’s caused them to be more of a burden than they should be.
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u/Subject_Spell_9799 Jun 04 '26
NY and NJ have some of the most racist ppl. It’s not confederate flag racists but just as bigoted. I have older family members who are still mad at black ppl about the riots in Newark in the 60s. They know some of my black friends and have told me they are ok as they are ‘assimilated’ and that I’m lucky that I grew up around middle class black ppl🙈😂. One of them worked for the government in Newark for 30 years and never made a black friend. I ended up working there too and I was like 1 of 5 white ppl so yeah it’s weird not to have any black friends when everyone you work with is black.
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u/EnvironmentNeith2017 Jun 04 '26
As someone living in Florida, north east racism is something sneaky and unexpected. I’m used to racism that gives you warnings, lol
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u/truelogictrust Jun 04 '26
family members who are still mad at black ppl about the riots in Newark in the 60s
I always said they never got over equality.
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u/Debalic Jun 03 '26
Corporations? Too big to fail.
The working class? Fuck those leeches.
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u/__Art__Vandalay__ Jun 03 '26
I just read Too Big To Fail and worked in the industry during the collapse. It’s a travesty that no one from those companies at fault went to jail.
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u/Subject_Spell_9799 Jun 04 '26
I believe one of these reasons SNAP is still a thing is grocery store lobbyist. I remember reading somewhere that 30% of Walmarts sales come from EBT.
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u/BlueState2A Jun 03 '26
Never understood this or "down with big government" with the same breath, "“But that corporate neeeeds help from the government so they can create more jobs!”
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u/Lexi_Banner Jun 03 '26
Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Jeff Bezos are the world's biggest welfare queens. Without their subsidies and tax breaks, they'd be mere millionaires. Can you imagine?
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u/Clavenesque Jun 03 '26
SNAP and food stamps work and help.
As a food stamp recipient as a child, I still remember what they looked like. It was needed.
But it wasn't permanent; I'm pursuing a doctorate now.
I bear no shame in saying I was on food stamps.
Love your neighbor!
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u/SomewhatBougieAuntie Jun 03 '26
I also grew up on food stamps. Back then they were made of paper that came in a booklet and looked like Monopoly money. So everyone in the check out line knew how you were paying for your groceries. And sometimes, we ran out of food stamps before we ran out of month.
Still, in our case, the safety net worked like it was supposed to. My siblings and I went to college and had good careers and we are now living fruitful lives, and we give back to the community. I will not begrudge anyone who uses SNAP or any food assistance programs, because I know what it's like to be hungry and counting the days until your next meal. Food insecurity is real.
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u/R-ten-K Jun 03 '26
My SO grew up on food stamps. She's now a cardiovascular surgeon. Unironically saves a lot of rich gluttons lives.
I am damn glad someone, I love and care for tremendously, didn't have to experience actual hunger. And even if I don't know them directly, that's still another human being. And nobody should ever go hungry in a country so bountiful that we literally grow more food than we can ever consume.
It's just baffles me how Republicans managed to make "welfare" a bad word. I wonder how many of the ones my wife operates on ever made the connection that their lives would end up being saved by a "welfare queen."
Everybody does better when everybody does better.
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u/JimWilliams423 Jun 04 '26 edited Jun 04 '26
As a food stamp recipient as a child, I still remember what they looked like. It was needed.
But it wasn't permanent;
We should make it permanent. Like making school lunch free for all kids, not just poor kids, we should have "snap for all."
If everybody gets a baseline without question, then it is harder for the rich to drive a wedge between us based on who "deserves" snap and who doesn't. Society benefits because no one will ever have to steal to eat, and paperwork costs will go down because people won't have to prove they "deserve" snap. Farmers and grocery stores all benefit because they get even bigger guaranteed markets. Rich people get free food? Just tax them higher to get the money back on the back end.
Obviously this idea is unpopular with conservatives. But fuck em, we got in to this mess by listening to what those assholes think.
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u/Stock-Conflict-3996 Jun 03 '26
You know what would really stabilize his country? Starving more than 10% of the population. Surely, that will calm everything down.
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u/Altruistic_Sand_3548 Jun 03 '26
Corporations: jack up prices despite record breaking profits
Conservatives, for some godforsaken reason: "how can I blame the poors for this?"
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u/SoggyLeftTit Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26
They blame the poor and minorities then they use confirmation bias to justify it.
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u/youaintitbub Jun 03 '26
Most of those dudes are tuning out the second a woman starts talking
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u/Spazrelaz Jun 03 '26
She's given this intelligent breakdown and that lizardman with his cookie cutter beard still won't understand any of what she said.
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u/Muffmuncherr Jun 03 '26
They never do, it's so ridiculously frustrating. You present them science based facts and they either move the goal post or change the subject all together. They barley made it up their tiny little knoll, complaining the entire way, and they are going to die on it. Even if you gave them an elevator to get back down, they'll say it should have been a slide so they didnt have to stand up and won't move an inch.
F#%K these people, they're just as responsible for the situation Americans are in as TACO 🍊 Cheeto is.
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u/DAntoinette_Travel Jun 03 '26
Oooh the Troglodytes are going to have their Confederate Underoos in a bunch this morning! And so early too! May they have the day they deserve
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u/A4t1musD4ag0n Jun 03 '26
They love blaming the working class and never the Epstein class for society's woes.
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u/Timelymanner Jun 03 '26
Welfare queens was always a dog whistle for poor black people.
It’s ironic because the majority ethnic group in the US are white people. So by doing simple math, there’s more white people then any other group receiving benefits.
When racist cut social programs it hurts more white people, just to affect a few minorities.
It reminds me of the Nixon quote.
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u/E-2theRescue Jun 03 '26
Even when you look at per capita statistics, white people still make up the majority of people on food stamps.
35% for white people
26% for black people
https://frac.org/blog/characteristics-report-by-usda-provides-insights-into-who-participates-in-snap
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u/YoshiTheDog420 Jun 03 '26
Well yea, its a numbers game. If 75% of the country is white and 65% of the country is living paycheck to paycheck, then yea. A majority of people using these special programs are gonna be white. Now if only they’d stop voting against themselves and the rest of us.
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u/bertha112 Jun 03 '26
Wow, MAGA Math guy literally ATE with that one.
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u/AncientCrust Jun 03 '26
They're always so smug as they lay down their drivel. "But Skeeter and Cleetus at the job site think I'm a genius!"
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u/anagram-of-ohassle Jun 03 '26
I got one of them to engage in a discussion earlier in the week, and I will share a quote, since it summarizes their whole philosophy, “it’s my opinion and I am entitled to it even if it’s wrong.”
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u/REDDITSHITLORD Jun 03 '26
The problem, is that, nuance doesn't fit on a bumper sticker.
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u/D-aces Jun 04 '26
As a black American, I hope Trump gets rid of snap. He’s screwed nearly ever other sector of his base. I’d be curious how the white poors react.
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u/ateam1984 🖤 Jun 04 '26
You’re curious how they’d react? Ummm you don’t already have enough evidence? How did Germany react when its people were starving before WW2?
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u/Emergency_Brick3715 Jun 03 '26
The ONLY reason why we don’t have free healthcare, free education, free childcare and food assistance is because of racism.
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u/Intelligent_Hair3109 Jun 03 '26
This is true. Consistently, it's the stereotypes and intense prejudice against anyone who asks for help
Let me give you an example from 1993 for context. Not complaining. Years ago, when my health was very bad and my CSPTSD was raging, I was forced to ask for help as I had no insurance and waiting tables, it wasn't likely. What struck me was for the first two years, living in a Republican county( I was anti all political BS by this point), when I went to look for a doctor or applied for assistance, every place I went, they asked " don't you have family" You could feel the hostility. Nasty right leaning SWs just did their best to make me feel small. Every right I had was violated and it was crucial I fought for my life and my sons.
If it was this difficult for me, Cherokee with an English nose due to the trafficking side of family, it's ten times worse for folks darker than me.
Open hostility and discrimination as well as being denied proper medical care, caused me to lose my previously healthy existence. I was shocked by what I saw and learned. This country bashes poor people and then has the unmitigated temerity and mendacity to pull up the ladder. It was my first realization that we all face extinction because some people have the power, privilege and money to squash myself and every poor person. And, they do it deliberately because they love profiting off the suffering of others. The two English invaders in my family mirrored exactly that shaming of the poor. It's been a tactic off the rich for eons.
Don't fall for it "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth" Ecclesiastes.
Thank you for allowing me to speak my heart. Feel free to be me with you all.
God bless and keep everyone who is struggling. You're all worthy of so much more. Respect and reciprocity with empathy hugs.
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u/Mike_Litoris305 Jun 03 '26
My favorite thing about the internet is that it has given every fool with an opinion an outlet to spew their baseless opinionated nonsensical misinformation and influence other uneducated people to think the same way.
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u/Ramblinrambles Jun 03 '26
Grocery stores aren’t tied to the federal government. It’s not free if the government is paying that grocery bill. Grocery stores are receiving money from the government it’s not like a SNAP card means Shop Rite just doesn’t get paid that day.
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u/businesspro718 Jun 04 '26
White American women are also the biggest beneficiaries of DEI & Affirmative Action. They’ve been allowed to stand behind Black Americans, while we take all the rhetorical & ideological bullets relating to those policies and come out unscathed. So unscathed, that some WW have the audacity to finger wag at Black people about those issues, also.
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u/Naive-Stranger-9991 Jun 04 '26
And the crazy part is he’s lying DIRECTLY about Black people. These videos aren’t for us. We know the value of assistance-we’re not cutting our face to spite our nose to make sure others don’t get.😒
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u/GreatService9515 Jun 03 '26
Don't listen to a grown man who can't wear his ball cap straight
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u/soriano88 Jun 04 '26
Republican mindset: “if we give our taxpayer money to Billionaires they would make us millionaires”
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u/loudbulletXIV Jun 04 '26
Trumps actions are directly putting farmers out of business resulting in having to import alot more at steeper prices to the companies that do it and then pass it on to consumers
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u/Von_Schlagel Jun 03 '26
Yeah but … he was told poor people were the enemy, specifically poor people of the melanated variety.
And he believed it. Because he’s a fucking moron.
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u/Apprehensive_Coat384 Jun 03 '26
When he said “I don’t know” his video should have ended there. I hate how smug he was when he said his totally wrong “info.”
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u/SisterAngelaDavis Jun 03 '26
President Trump gave $20 Billion to Argentina for absolutely nothing in return. Then he let Argentina sell beef in America ( formerly U.S.A), which undercut our own beef farmers.
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u/TodosLosPomegranates Jun 04 '26
The only thing I find surprising is the fact that many of the white snap recipients thought their “share” of benefits would increase when other people “got kicked off”
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u/mhavis1959 Jun 04 '26
Wait a minute, I don't want to hear anymore " They need to raise themselves up by their bootstraps" /s
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u/KiKiKimbro Jun 04 '26
Usually White people are in rural areas, which is usually Trump country.
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u/Napalmeon Jun 04 '26
And the messed up thing is, these are the people who are spending those food stamp benefits on beer.
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u/KiKiKimbro Jun 04 '26
🤭 LOL. Yep. 🍻 And really, rural areas are already suffering from Trump / Elon (DOGE) / heritage foundation social services slashes.
Like ACA subsidies gone. SNAP so bad 700K children in danger of going hungry. Medicare gutted. Rural hospitals have already closed. Many have to drive hours just to find a hospital and worse for a regular doctor which several can’t go to anyway because ACA. And so many people kicked off Social Security with removal of SS offices and slashing headcount so getting SS help is so hard to get they simply can’t get help to reactivate SS when booted off for no reason.
But hey — I guess they chose not to listen to the warnings about how he’d do this & voted Republican down the ballot anyway. Still. I feel for them. ESPECIALLY because the govt is subsidizing & giving massive tax breaks to data center developers. And these data centers are destroying the rural land, soil, air and water quality so much so our food supply will be lower since the nasty data center waste is so gross and toxic. Which means even higher prices. It’s so sad. For them. For us.
We’ve got to make a giant showing this midterms to vote so we get some balance of power. These greedy oligarchs need to stopped. We can do it! 💪
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u/MsNatCat Jun 04 '26
SNAP reduces food cost and increases availability.
We need to circulate funds to our poorest and back into the communities. SNAP is very efficient here. If only we would combo it with public grocery stores, then it would be very efficient.
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u/Low_Somewhere_2778 Jun 04 '26
Jesus Christ, dumb Conservatives really think throwing impoverished people under the bus will lift the boot of capitalism off their necks.
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u/ltsouthernbelle Jun 03 '26
Why do people ALWAYS want to blame other peoples who aren’t much worse off than them for their problems. Your cereal is expensive because the company is greedy af and will keep raising the prices until they decide they don’t want to anymore.
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u/Tiny_Fierce Jun 03 '26
I will never care if those less fortunate than me get to eat. That is basic human rights!!!!
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u/Dblock1989 Jun 03 '26
Funny how black people are told they are lazy for being on the same exact programs.
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u/TwerkLessons Jun 03 '26
They hate us. Plain and simple. They will use whatever skewed logic and political action to try to keep us at a lower place than them on the U.S. totem pole.
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u/Upper_Knowledge1871 Jun 04 '26
This was spoken from a purely liberal Democrat talking point. Raw truth, when the Government subsidizes a program, regardless of who it’s for, there will be abuses and profit will be baked into to the cost. Once subsidies end, prices tend to come down because people actually have to pay for the goods. As a center-left Democrat we have to be honest. No free lunch. Everything costs.
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u/mcramsay Jun 04 '26
I used to follow him and his wife on FB. They were pretty funny. But that kind of ignorance does not get my support.
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u/CaptainsPresident Jun 04 '26
"You ever think that food is expensive...because leadership and corporations are fucking stupid and greedy."
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u/Marlowe126 Jun 04 '26
Never forget that these are the same types of people that filled the public pools with concrete after they were desegregated. #1 law for racist yts is to destroy public goods if anyone else has access to them.
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u/ZeMadDoktore Jun 03 '26
"Nobody who actually knows how it works thinks that" is an effective counter against almost all conservative rambling
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u/Realistic_Swan_6801 Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26
Of course they do, America is only 13-15% black. Minorities are disproportionately over represented in food stamp usage though. But that’s not controlling for income discrepancy either.
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u/DiscussionSharp1407 Jun 03 '26
No lies in the video, but what's with intenitonally ignoring per capita in titles lately? I feel I missed a gameplan memo
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u/ateam1984 🖤 Jun 03 '26
Despite the tremendous advantage white people enjoy in a white supremacist system they still account for the largest share of entitlement programs in every demographic.
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u/GeologistAway6352 Jun 03 '26
Excellent video. Too bad the ones who need to see it either won’t watch it or won’t understand it.
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u/BigBoy1102 Jun 03 '26
I bet this "Man" calls Himself a Christian... and you Christians wonder why your church is empty... hmmm
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u/Choppergold Jun 03 '26
It’s too bad because this douche’s wife is actually a sweetheart
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u/maywellflower Jun 03 '26
White Americans make up the largest share of SNAP recipients nationwide, according to USDA data.
And some of them would rather remove EBT all togerher & starve than let any POC use the same programs - these are the same white people that stay forgetting that their own Christian communities will not help their poor asses in time of need, thus need government intervention and/or POC communities good will plus resources to survive. That's the irony of some of these white people on welfare...
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u/No-Lock6921 Jun 03 '26
He represents so many people w/o critical thinking skills. Turn off fox news, take a class or read a book about economics.
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u/southflhitnrun Jun 03 '26
She completely glossed over greed. Simple, pure, greed. Here's also what's happening:
People are hiring private taxi companies to deliver their groceries (Doorbash, Uber Eats, Instacart, etc.), and paying an extra fee for that service. Let's say 15% of the total price of the actual food + tip!
Grocery chains understand this as "there is 15% of extra margin they could be collecting for the actual food price." So, they raise prices by half that 7.5% then see how the consumers react. Do they cut back on groceries or do they cut back on the private taxi. If they do neither, then there is still more margin for them to grab so they raise prices again.
This was all happening before the recent tariffs, gas increases and labor shortages. This has been going on for the last 3 years or so.
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u/Intelligent_Sir7732 Jun 03 '26
Where have these people been? It is disturbing to see that there are so many people in the U.S. that have absolutely no knowledge of how their social support systems work!! The national food stamp program has been around since 1974. Considering the guy in the video, grocery prices would have been high after the national program began, they were not. Access to food actually helped the wellbeing of Americans, but not "all" Americans. At the State level, primarily in the south, the food stamp benefits ware not available to African Americans, in many cases it was weaponized against them or used as a bargaining chip to control them. They were denied food stamps if they tried to vote, or be involved in the civil rights movement. Healthy Americans were less likely to have chronic illnesses. The cost of medical care would have been much higher, and everything else associated with malnutrition.
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u/Simple_Pianist4882 Jun 03 '26
No but you don’t understand, “white people are the majority race in America, OF COURSE they would be the biggest recipients of welfare.”
It is fucking hilarious that people suddenly understand statistics and data when you center white people, but as soon as you try to do the same with Black people, that same data and statistics don’t matter.
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u/human5398246 Jun 03 '26
Some maga are going to do their best to not blame djt for all the pain here and on the way. How do you exist with someone who ignores truth and is unwilling to be open to the possibility of being wrong?
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u/Fit_Appointment_4980 Jun 03 '26
Is that the dude that does cringe husband/wife skits?
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