Rich Men North of Richmond
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Anonymous
Upset? No. Bored? Sure. They have just been hating poor women since the 80s, they still can’t find someone new to blame for their problems? |
Anonymous
| Should be 300 pounds. |
Anonymous
not sure his “ardent fans” would have been that focused on Bloomberg’s position on soft drinks. That’d more of an inside DC obsession. |
Anonymous
New York. But my broader point is, when there have been efforts to make taxpayer funding focus on healthy food, conservatives mocked it, resisted it, and hated it. Trump even rolled back the draconian provision that…required children be served fruits and vegetables. So no, I don’t buy that now he’s just so upset about taxpayer dollars buying fudge rounds when he was telling to support taxpayer dollars buying pizza rolls. When someone comes out with a song about worker and workplace protections, genuine tax relief for families, and sure even tackling making sure the poor have adequate access to healthy food, I hope there’s a thread about it— I can get behind it! |
Anonymous
Do you know why it’s that way? Because food stamps/SNAP is a USDA program under the jurisdiction of the House and Senate Agriculture committees, which have zero woke members. To the Ag committees, SNAP is a program for farmers, dairies, meat packers, packaged food corporations, and supermarket chains to be paid retail prices with no nutritional restrictions. It would be cheaper for the government to buy nutritious food in bulk from low bidders and distribute it, but then the dairies, farmers, meat producers, and other food corporations, and the WalMarts, Winn Dixies, Piggly Wigglys, and other supermarkets would not make the maximum possible profits off the program. If you follow the money, all low & moderate income programs subsidize some powerful corporate or institutional lobbying sector (pharma, insurers, nursing home owners & investors, housing builders & developers, bankers, employers, etc.) as the profit-making provider or seller of the benefits. It’s the only way to get programs for poor people through the House and Senate and keep them from being repealed. The money goes to the donors. |
Anonymous
Your response is a perfect example of how the left is unable to relate to the working class. People don't trust government programs "meant to help" specifically because that help often comes with side effects that keep people sick, poor, and mentally unwell. This isn't an R vs D issue, this is a class issue. Look, for example, at covid vaccine rates among black people and how long it took to get traction in that demographic. Why? Because they don't trust the medical community or the government. And they have good reason, if you look at history. So when this singer points out the high obesity rates among the poor, he is speaking specifically to that distrust. And he's not wrong. Look at graphs of when weight issues started to appear in America and then juxtapose it with a graph on farm subsidies. Farm subsidies incentivized corn production in particular, which became corn syrup, dumped into a ton of food products. Corn filler, corn syrup, etc added calories where there were previously fewer calories. The government did this because they wanted to do the right thing. They wanted to end hunger in America. The goals were noble. But good intentions can lead to bad consequences and a little humility about that could do the political class a world of good. |
Anonymous
Those would make great lyrics to a country song. You ought to write one..... /s |
Anonymous
They won't relax because they would rather perseverate over 2 lines in this song and attribute meaning to them that he never stated. All so they can call this man "misogynistic." Forget all the rap songs and even rock and roll that are really misogynistic. Nah.... they don't like the man, his audience, or the message of the song. They cannot relate. Remember that you are talking about a large number of 1%ers here... they can't relate to the struggles of the working man. Best to just discount him and his song than try to understand why his song speaks to millions. |
Anonymous
Heehee PP doesn’t realize that people are too dumb to appreciate a song with policy nuance. They would much rather listen to a crybaby singing about fat lazy chicks on the government dole and how the government wrongs hard working white guys. Next time he should wear a “no fat chicks” tshirt to be fully transparent. |
Anonymous
Oh do enlighten us, Mike Rowe wannabe |
Anonymous
er .. what? What "news" source are you reading? CA alone is almost the same FL and TX combined, which are the only southern states that have a gdp. 
Then look at per capita gdp https://www.statista.com/statistics/248063/per-capita-us-real-gross-domestic-product-gdp-by-state/ Other than TX , the rest of the southern states per capita gdp is below the US average. The states above the US average are mostly in the west, and about five in the northeast, and the majority are blue states. |
Anonymous
I understand why, it’s the same reason millions of people believed in “welfare queens” in the eighties, the same reason there were Jim Crow laws— people like to blame the same groups over…and over..and over… This is Ronald Reagan with a giant beard. |
Anonymous
NYC but cheered on by DC policy people. He doesn’t seem to see the world through a center-left policy prism that revolves around government. I know that’s hard to imagine … but maybe just try? |
Anonymous
Right— he seems to be mad at government for not mandating taxpayer dollars fund fruits and vegetables. Except his supporters were also mad about…mandating taxpayer dollars fund fruits and vegetables. |
Anonymous
DP
https://www.forbes.com/sites/adammillsap/2023/07/06/us-economic-activity-moves-south-as-northeasts-decline-continues/?sh=3361bfcf126a |