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I know someone on SNAP benefits. She drives a 25 year old Buick Lesabre with over 200,000 miles on it . Technically it’s a “luxury car,” which she got for $800.
Their stats are bullshit, spun in such a way as to churn up resentment towards the poorest , so the wealthiest can bilk more money from the middle.
Why should it ever stop them? There has never been any evidence in anything they have ever accused.
They make the accusations then they rely on their propaganda machine, AKA literally all of media at this point, to put out their version of things to the entire nation before the truth has a chance to even circulate locally.
fuck republicans
Temu grandpa Munster.
Meanwhile, there's strong evidence… well, facts, at this point, that taxpayers' money is fueling a silly war for ego, possibly funding a gigantic ballroom, personal enrichment of high-profile in the administration. I wonder why they're not complaining about that.
if people are taking advice from LIZARD RAFAEL CANCUN CRUZ as a fact, its on them.
To appropriate another well known saying about owing money... If one person believes easily disproven misinformation, that's on them. If a large percentage of the population believes it... That's on all of us... We need to bring back critical thinking to education but we also need to remove these corrupt assholes from power asap
The cruelty is the point. Also, where are the Trumpstein files?
Republicans claim widespread food stamp fraud. What's missing? ~~Evidence~~ Food stamp fraud.
I fixed the headline.
I feel like "luxury vehicles" is the same buzzword as "assault weapons." A meaningless buzzword to evoke emotion.
What's a "luxury vehicle?" What's the cutoff? Are they in a nicer Honda or a Lotus? Seeing as how this country's citizens are famously one illness or ouchie away from financial ruin, did they purchase this vehicle before or after needing assistance? Are they still making payments or is it paid off?
Facts and hard criteria or GTFO with this nonsense.
It's literally just trying to goad the struggling to pull the rug from the destitute, while the rich pop their champaign and laugh. It's class warfare rhetoric to take the heat off the Epstein class, and anybody falling for it is a damned fool.
they were using "entitlements" before.
Even if you had 14,000 SNAP recipients driving “luxury vehicles” in every state that is still less than 2% of all beneficiaries nation wide.
Food assistance keeps people productive. Even a capitalist should advocate for it.
Starvation killing the people that fail to generate wealth trims expenses. Fear of losing your livelihood makes the rest more pliable. In the short term, it absolutely is what a capitalist would want: to increase their own profit.
However, in the long term, a smaller workforce eventually blunts the threat of firing and replacing unruly workers. But the long term doesn't matter as much to the individual capitalists: their allegiance is not to sustaining the system, but to their own enrichment. They just need it to work long enough for them to make as much money as they can.
That's also why they jump so eagerly on the promise of AI replacing workers: If it turns out true, it would be an immense boon both for profit and control. It would offset the long-term downsides while exaggerating the short-term gains. And if it fails, we're back to the status quo ante, the long-term damage being borne by someone else.
the long term doesn't matter as much to the individual capitalists: their allegiance is not to sustaining the system, but to their own enrichment.
Namely, cancer.
It's a fucking excuse to make fuck-you-got-mine policies.
Watch they are going to fight to increase restrictions on SNAP benefit "handouts", but a ton of rich people fraudulently took out COVID loans, actually bought cars, never paid them back, and there is legit evidence but they were never prosecuted.
The new slogan for America should be: Protect the fellow rich, beat the poor down into dust.
plus all the TAX breaks they get from hiring people.
Musk is not a problem for them or the other 88 companies dodging taxes last year right.
An old friend from college is now trying to live on $1800 a month from Social Security--in Southern California. She just found out, she will get $24 a month in SNAP, and she had to wade through bureaucracy even for that.
Keep the poors poor, working shit jobs or kill them off if they can't work. That's a Christian Nation, puh-raise JEE-zuz-ah!
she qualifies for MEDI-CAL, so it would be free healthcare for her. since shes making less the maximum for medi-caid in california. shes pretty close though, i assume shes aiming for that 1800 in order to stay with medi-cal.
Love to hear this kind of bullshit while we drain trillions into the pockets of war-pigs.
to MIC and being used as a proxy by israel.
It also doesn’t define “LUXURY VEHICLE”
The banged up crossover SUV that came with CarPlay and OnStar so your insurance and the government can track your every move could be considered a LUXURY because CONNECTIVITY
Guys, poor people are forced to buy the only things we’ll sell to them. How come they never try not being poor? Lazy!
I have a 2008 Infiniti. It's a luxury vehicle that I paid $5k for and runs like it's been smoking cigarettes the past 20 years.
I'd rather a hundred people get benefits they "don't need" than have one person go without the support they require.
Not that it's even happening, but even if it were I really wouldn't care even a little bit. And furthermore, food stamp benefits are pathetic in the US.
Yeah, nobody commits that level of petty fraud if their life is going well.
If you want food stamps badly enough to jump through the hoops required, then that should qualify you by default.
Well when they claimed there was a lot of voter fraud it turned out to be them with trump trying to manipulate state govs and now with gerrymandering.
Dude, it seems everything the GOP claims lacks evidence.
especially coming from the mouth of the most infamous one, cruz.
There are plenty of corporate leaders accepting huge sums of corporate socialism that are driving luxury vehicles.
Have Republicans ever provided evidence of anything they've ever said, ever?
no they dont, they also dont actually report it on the news so they can twist the evidence however they want as long as the "evidence" is not verifiable.
All the time. Said evidence was false or cherry picked and they never bring it to the courtroom successfully but they provide it nonetheless