i just wish to point out that 1 reason we spend what we do on the social safety net

[Ol Janx Spirit]

26. And it actually goes deeper than that. These social safety net programs have allowed the...

...wealthy to exploit workers and suppress wages in order to become even wealthier. It is all part of the push to privatize profit while making all societal costs a public debt. The tecbro-billionaires seem to have forgotten this unwritten contract, but you can bet the Walton family still has some inkling that SNAP benefits allow them to keep a lot more of the money they make from selling cheap stuff.

What is always lost among the push by politicians to take away benefits under the guise that they disincentivize work is the fact that eliminating them will require employers to pay their workers more in the long run since most people receiving benefits are working in one way or another. Crime is also another side to this coin since people will find a way to feed their family one way or another.

But none of this is actually new or unique to America. Qu'ils mangent de la brioche