If you are a republican please answer me this
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Would you actually walk past a starving child and just shrug your shoulders and say well guess you should have worked harder and pulled yourself up from poverty. Sorry not sorry.
From my view point republicans as a whole at this point would actually not hesitate to shoot a person if they got in the way of their “America (white person) first agenda”. Please tell me I am wrong. |
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I respect that you support SNAP benefits, and I agree that helping families who are struggling to afford food is important. But supporting the idea behind SNAP doesn’t mean we should ignore the serious problems in how related funding is being managed.
There is corruption and inefficiency behind some of these federal nutrition programs, and pretending everything is working perfectly does a disservice to the very people SNAP is supposed to help. If the system were functioning the way politicians claim, we wouldn’t still see food banks overwhelmed, families waiting in long lines, and working people relying on donated meals just to get through the week. Supporting SNAP shouldn’t mean automatically defending every layer of bureaucracy surrounding it. It should mean making sure the money actually reaches families — not getting lost in administrative waste, questionable contracts, or programs that sound good on paper but fail in practice. When people talk about these issues, they’re not attacking SNAP itself; they’re calling out a system that needs transparency, accountability, and reform. If we truly care about fighting hunger, we should be willing to look honestly at where the funding goes, where it’s failing, and who benefits from the inefficiencies. Real support for struggling families means fixing what’s broken — not pretending everything works just because a particular political party says it does. |
Anonymous
| Hypothetical that doesn't exist in United States |
Anonymous
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I worked hard as a software developer
I was replaced by an h1b. I saw many coworkers also replaced by h1bs When will democrat start helping people like me? When will democrats fight for US workers. ? |
Anonymous
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After you, OP.
How many dollars have you sent to hungry children? How many refugees are living in your home? How many cancer stricken children’s gofundmes have you contributed to? How many wells have you built in Africa? How many single moms have you personally assisted? PS republicans give more $$ to charity than democrats https://finance.yahoo.com/news/more-generous-liberals-conservatives-081500677.html |
Anonymous
You complain about the pennies this program costs but ignore that abject raping of the treasury that Trump and the oligarchs are effecting. Why? |
Anonymous
Trump hires hundreds of aliens every year. Why do you think he is helping you? |
Anonymous
What do you think will happen to the US economy if we deport 15 million people? |
Anonymous
Op here - wrong person to ask. We give thousands of dollars to church, charities, etc. I did actually build a well and aqueduct in Latin America when I volunteered as a peace corps volunteer for 2 years. To me republicans never care about anything until it affects them directly. They don’t give a crap or have empathy or sympathy for people who are struggling but the minute it affects them directly then they suddenly care. Don’t “give hand outs” for people who need food or assistance but oh no big farmers get subsidies all the time (isn’t this a form of government hand outs)? |
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NP. Don't be so intellectually lazy. First of all, there is no individual level data on party affiliation linked to giving, just separate population statistics on what percentage was donated vs. which candidate got the most electoral votes. Second, what are they counting as "charity". My guess is they just looked at tax return data. No surprise Utah gave the most...Mormons are required to tithe 10% of their income to their church, which is tax deductible. Continuing down the list, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee,... since we have no information to the contrary, it seems to me that plenty of these donations could be to folks own churches, especially those mega churches with roller rinks and movies theaters. I wouldn't assume much at all was going to anyone who actually needed it. And since you just seem to be choosing random internet articles here is one for you. One good quote: "Importantly, the study did not find that in Republican counties, private funds replaced public funds so that social services were equally supported." https://nonprofitquarterly.org/republicans-give-more-to-charity-than-democrats-but-theres-a-bigger-story-here/ |
Anonymous
Republicans are in charge and hold the majority. Why haven't they done anything? Why is it that only Democrats are ever expected to be the grownups in the room? |
Anonymous
Yes, SNAP has its issues - fraud, administrative overhead and so on. But in comparison to the private sector, SNAP actually has significantly less fraud (1-2% for SNAP vs 5-7% for private sector), administrative overhead (5-7% of program cost vs 15-40% in private sector). In the grand scheme of things, SNAP, Medicare and other government programs are run more tightly and with less overhead than much of the private sector in comparison. And, the problems that do exist are fixable. It's deranged that Republicans want to use those issues as rationale to throw the baby out with the bathwater even knowing that the private sector has a far worse track record. |
Anonymous
Fraud rates in SNAP have always been low, and I would absolutely wager they are no higher (and probably lower) than fraud in ANY OTHER government program. I know of brothers who were farmers who grew potatoes. They collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal crop insurance benefits via a combination of treating their own warehoused potato harvest with a septic tank chemical that caused them to rot as well as by using certain cultivation methods (I forget the specifics) to expose fields to frost, also causing rot. These practices went on for several years before someone snitched on them. There was a guy in the next town who fabricated 3 separate companies to get PPP loans during Covid. Cigna and other Medicare Advantage insurers have fraudulently claimed chronic illnesses (that did not exist) in participants in order to claim higher reimbursement rates from the government. Why is it people seem to reserve their ire for programs used by people who are going to the grocery store? |
Anonymous
You are very wrong. What you're describing, shooting people who get in the way and ignoring dying children, is like completely insane to me. |
Anonymous
Not OP, but I donate to a number of charitable causes, mostly locally. But also, like most progressives I know, I donate time. For example, I joined a local indivisible group last April. This month we are providing a weekly hot meal at a church. Volunteers prepare enough food for 150 people (from our own ingredients or purchases) and afterwards package leftovers into single servings we take to a church-run food pantry and shelters. My church raises produce on our lawn in raised beds, contributing 300 pounds of fresh vegetables to food pantries this year. We have done diaper drives, we have volunteered at classes to help refugees learn English, and taking on a lot of similar causes. |