Simon Acerton
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Simon Acerton
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Definite Panem vibe there
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Why do people buy pizza with EBT?

Because cauliflower is five dollars a head and you can buy five pizzas with the same money.

It’s not that folks don’t want to be healthy. They can’t afford to be healthy.
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Reminder:

Food banks need money more than food!

They have access to buying things cheaper than you do, and they know what the community needs better than we do!
Most of those guys were deported by Bill Clinton of all people.

There are maybe 10k left of 14 million (official stats) not enough to make quota
Making SNAP a proto Social Credit/Basic Income is a very interesting idea
Anyway, SNAP should be universal. Just like school lunches in NYC. Not everyone needs it to survive but everybody gets it, no means testing.

There should also be a lot fewer regulations on what you can buy with SNAP and discounts, not bans, on hot prepared foods.
All I can say is I have a lot of reading to do though I appreciate your patience.
We all know why he's not doing his job. Its not going to blow over though.
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Interestingly people on X in basically White areas were complaining about lack of trick or treaters, maybe being replaced with Trunk of Treat

They were lamenting cultural collapse too
I got 12 with parents.
Its been this way in my heavily Hispanic neighborhood since 2021 at least. I think we just haven't had many kids born since 2007 so they are teens
I don't think it was anything Trump was doing here Everyone who showed up was Latino
Its just everyone is doing trunk or treat
Fair enough I am not sure I know enough to nit pick every point and frankly MMT's validity still unresolved among economists who know more than I do.
It will. If it happens and right now its a big if I'll celebrate. Maybe with poutine which is an under appreciated Canadian cultural export
And its not working. US wages are half what they were and globally the fertility rate is below replacement everywhere

I can't prove that is a large cause but I hear people all the time saying they can afford kids.

That is from money printing at least in part
Me too. That won't be easy though. There are so many elites that are like that m even the court systems go easy on repeat offenders in many parts of the US
Would you care if took a good chunk of your leaders? Its an international thing after all

I'm fine with let the chips fall where they may.
Even a nation as wealthy as the US has its limits. Social welfare requires immigration and isn't as much of a benefit as some might think
archive.nytimes.com/krugman.blog...
The author a noted liberal has also noted to some degree t Large scale immigration means no welfare state
Notes on Immigration
archive.nytimes.com
I do understand it . Its basically unworkable but you can get away with it in a closed economy
Its way above the "let them starve" attitude over there. Utterly intolerable ideology to me
Just needs to be convinced that a transition is needed or to have some consistency

Now if we had UBI, inflation linked and such odds are good we wouldn't need other transfer programs

This is why Hayek the Austrian economics guy grudgingly supported UBI . Simpler and cheaper