USDA has $6B in contingency funds the admin could use to maintain SNAP benefits without a pause, at least through Nov. I like your big picture point of view, but this budget fight is about funding known affordability gaps for basic life needs in healthcare and nutrition. In this case, the politics before people narrative is way oversimplified and appears to be more about the commentator’s assumptions than the politics unfolding.
And also, I do like to frame this as rich vs poor, the corporations made money off people, time for them to share some of those to the poor. They seems pretty quiet.
Agreed, CEOs are misinterpreting the fiduciary trust with a short term focus on ingratiating themselves with an authoritarian administration and not defending the democracy that created the freedoms and highly beneficial regulatory framework that facilitated creating the world’s largest and most innovative corporations. Democracy is under attack from several angles, all of which rely on faulty assumptions and ignoring basic political theory and history. Bad policy and poor values are the problem, politics and democracy are not.
All our life we’ve been taught to be terrified of China. Turns out, they take much better care of their citizens. They still feed and House and have medical care for their elderly, disabled, orphaned, etc.! Please read this article I’m 58 years old and just learned how fucking awesome China is and how much technologically advanced they are than us. We, as Americans really are a piece of shit to the world.
USDA has $6B in contingency funds the admin could use to maintain SNAP benefits without a pause, at least through Nov. I like your big picture point of view, but this budget fight is about funding known affordability gaps for basic life needs in healthcare and nutrition. In this case, the politics before people narrative is way oversimplified and appears to be more about the commentator’s assumptions than the politics unfolding.
I understand there are more nuances in this, it bothers me that food as basic need got wrapped into all this. It should never been interrupted.
And also, I do like to frame this as rich vs poor, the corporations made money off people, time for them to share some of those to the poor. They seems pretty quiet.
Agreed, CEOs are misinterpreting the fiduciary trust with a short term focus on ingratiating themselves with an authoritarian administration and not defending the democracy that created the freedoms and highly beneficial regulatory framework that facilitated creating the world’s largest and most innovative corporations. Democracy is under attack from several angles, all of which rely on faulty assumptions and ignoring basic political theory and history. Bad policy and poor values are the problem, politics and democracy are not.
All our life we’ve been taught to be terrified of China. Turns out, they take much better care of their citizens. They still feed and House and have medical care for their elderly, disabled, orphaned, etc.! Please read this article I’m 58 years old and just learned how fucking awesome China is and how much technologically advanced they are than us. We, as Americans really are a piece of shit to the world.