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It's been very telling this week at work.
I live in a very red area and work in a majority red industry. I hear people talking shit about "the libs" all day. I hear tons of coworkers talking shit about anyone on government assistance because the "welfare queens just want free stuff with no work"
It seems that just under 3/4 of the people I work with were getting SNAP benefits.
A box has been set up in the break room so people can bring in food, and others can take what they need.
The shit talking has stopped, at least. No jokes about "welfare queens" anymore.
It doesn’t appear your company pays a living wage if 3/4 its employees need Government assistance for food.
I have recently had a shift on perception, and I'm trying to get everyone to see it, too.
You know those St Jude commercials with the cute cancer kids, and the crying parents, and everyone so happy that St Jude is taking care of those kids, and covering all the costs? People watch those commercials, shed a tear, and send money.
It doesn't occur to them that these facilities don't exist anywhere else, not because America is so great, but because in nearly every other country, parents don't have to be rich, or have expensive health insurance, or hit the charity lottery, or the PR lottery, they just take their kid to the hospital, and they get the care they need.
Instead of sending your money to a hospital that is doing what our country should be doing anyway, and use your money to elect candidates that will actually improve the health care in this country, and not just use it as a tool to exploit our citizens.
And now we have employers setting up food banks for their employees, and people think that's an honorable thing to do, understanding the hardships of their employees.
But if they truly understood the hardships of their employees, they would PAY them enough that they wouldn't have to count on the government to supplement their employees living costs.
IF we ever take back our country from the EVIL TRAITORS, we will have to rebuild a lot of our infrastructure, giving us an unprecedented opportunity to build it properly. One of the things we should do is track every American corporation's reliance on government programs to supplement employee pay. They should have to pay the government back for every penny that their employees take in government assistance, along with a hefty fine. That will make it more economically advantageous to pay the employees directly, rather than count on the government to feed them.
Many charities are just scams that exploits the deliberate weaknesses of our system. We should fix our system, and reduce our reliance on these phony support schemes.
I've been thinking about almost the same thing a lot lately
Specifically the impact and ethics of donating to support private assistance programs. I worry that donating to things like St. Jude's is just reinforcing the status quo. Similarly, if I'm donating to support food shelves now, would that be reinforcing the idea that government benefits, like SNAP, are unnecessary? Would I be reinforcing the idea that government doesn't work?
By and large, poorer people that need a social safety net tend to vote Republicans into office. Is the negative impact of conservative policies obfuscated by private support temporarily plugging the gaps?
Healthcare especially. The US has a fundamentally inefficient healthcare system, but most people don't realize how inefficient it is because the costs are spread around so much. The fact employers pay much of the premiums makes people forget that the premiums are actually absurdly expensive. Same story with ACA subsidies. Most people couldn't afford ACA without the subsidies. Rather than racking up more debt, I feel like we need to fix our inefficient system first. We lack the political will to do so though, since most people don't understand how expensive health insurance actually is
Hope the box had leopard spots on it.