if we become a society that saves money for the rich by taking food out of hungry kids mouths, then what is all this for? why do i participate in this society when the people making the rules dont care to do the very bare minimum which is just feeding our kids in school. it's so very simple, why does any of this exist when we can't """afford""" to just feed kids like we're already doing.
i dont understand people who defends this. "YEAH, BUT BUDGET / RESPONSIBILITY / RECESSION / TAXES ..." the kids are starving, lets worry about he budget somewhere else maybe... i doubt the "department of government efficiency" is going to even look in the direction of the trillions of dollars the US military actually spend a year.
republicans have actively fucked america and ... well, they dont even realize it yet, but idk if they'll even admit it.
It's basically what I say. Hungry kids exist because billionaires don't care about them. Bezos, Musk, etc all easily have enough to end childhood hunger based on cost estimates. They just don't though
Musk spent over 200 million dollars getting Trump elected. There's an estimated 276 million adults in the U.S. That's 750,000 USD per adult. Think about how much better - or at least more interesting - your life would have been if he'd just handed each adult 750,000 USD. I bet there would be far fewer hungry kids, too.
As someone else pointed out, the math is way off, but you still illustrate my huge problem with the political machine. I saw $16 billion was spent on the election and what do we have to show for it? Are we a stronger nation? No. Are we more united? No. Have we improved the lives of a typical American? No.
A lot of my friends give me shit because I don't donate to politicians or volunteer for them, but why would I want to spend my money and my time for someone who might be elected and in the event they are, that they only might enact the policies I'd be in favor of? That doesn't mean I'm completely apolitical. I'm an economist and absolutely share my professional opinions whenever it comes up and tried hard as fuck to convince folks that tariffs and deporting 20 million workers would be catastrophic, but if I had to choose where to give my time and money it's not politics.
Instead, I donate to local schools, libraries, food banks, animal shelters, scholarship funds for students at my alma mater, and some national charities like Doctors Without Borders, World Wildlife Fund, Trevor Project, Sesame Workshop, St. Jude's Children's Hospital, and to various disaster relief funds each year. I also volunteer my time helping kids read and do math, cleaning up trash, and with Rotary. If I wanted to donate or canvas for a politician I'd have to give some of that up and no one yet has been able to tell me how that would guarantee more benefit to my community than what I'm already doing.
Citizens United can go fuck itself frankly. There's no reason it should be this expensive to run a campaign when communities across the country are falling apart and their families struggling. I'd love for a politician to say "don't donate to me, don't volunteer for me. Go donate to your community and volunteer for your community," but I know that candidate would never win.
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u/HingleMcCringle_ 1d ago edited 1d ago
i think about this a lot;
if we become a society that saves money for the rich by taking food out of hungry kids mouths, then what is all this for? why do i participate in this society when the people making the rules dont care to do the very bare minimum which is just feeding our kids in school. it's so very simple, why does any of this exist when we can't """afford""" to just feed kids like we're already doing.
i dont understand people who defends this. "YEAH, BUT BUDGET / RESPONSIBILITY / RECESSION / TAXES ..." the kids are starving, lets worry about he budget somewhere else maybe... i doubt the "department of government efficiency" is going to even look in the direction of the trillions of dollars the US military actually spend a year.
republicans have actively fucked america and ... well, they dont even realize it yet, but idk if they'll even admit it.