Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 2 months ago, 1 hour later, 20 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,399,411
4 more days to break the record.
My life hasn't been affected at all.
The two big concerns, food stamps and military pay, aren't even really at risk. Private donors donating money, judges just ordering that food stamps be funded anyway ...
Basic services, bread and circuses, those will never really go away because the elites don't want them to.
This is proof that 99% of the government are just parasitic paper-pushers who spend all day yapping in the office
SNAP demographics include participants who are predominantly children, the elderly, and people with disabilities, with adults aged 18-59 making up the largest age group. Participants come from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds, with White, African American, and Hispanic individuals comprising the largest groups, respectively. Most SNAP households have incomes below the poverty level and a large portion are working families.
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Age: In FY 2023, adults aged 18–59 made up the largest share of participants (42%), followed by children (about 39%) and adults aged 60 and older (19%).
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Yeah, because the United States is a racist country and non-Hispanic white households earn $89,050 on average and black households earn $56,490 on average.
Anonymous F replied with this 2 months ago, 43 seconds later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,399,502
@1,399,500 (⚫️)
And you decided to post that absolute figure in response to the post where I point out that leftists can only understand absolute figures and not the relative difference in proportions.
⚫️ replied with this 2 months ago, 46 seconds later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,399,503
It’s like you don’t cut your nose to spite your face. The idea that it’s justified if it hurts a minority because you’re not a minority and you don’t care, when it actually hurts more people who are part of a majority is shooting yourself in the foot. It doesn’t make our country stronger.
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@previous (F)
It makes Americans worse off overall and doesn’t really make anyone better off. 40 million Americans rely on SNAP benefits that’s more than 10% of the population. Wealth isn’t distributed evenly in the United States, even though we have the largest economy in the world, it is relatively small easy to make a significant portion of the country much worse off through this type of thinking you have.
You replied to my post, where I pointed out that people on the left are unable to conceptualize relative proportions, to give stats that show white proportionally underrepresented.
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You’re thinking that whites in the US economy all contribute equally, so most white people contribute more than they receive, but that’s not necessarily the case because the wealth distribution is so uneven. A minority of whites have the majority of the money.
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And it’s not necessarily the case that this is because black people are naturally less productive or anything, if you look at African economies, African economies have similar levels of wealth inequality. In Nigeria the bottom 50% have about 5% of the country’s wealth. But Nigeria is basically 100% black. Wealth inequality exists in all societies regardless of whether they’re monoracial or ethnically diverse. Blacks make less than whites because blacks were enslaved and whites weren’t. There’s nothing fundamentally different about what the wealth distribution would be if America was 100% black or 100% white.
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Africa is the poorest continent because decolonization happened in Africa during the Cold War in the 1950s and 1960s. Apartheid only ended in the 1990s. While Africa was under the control of Europeans, all the infrastructure in Africa was only built to export resources to Europe, not to build local economies for the prosperity of Africans. That and Africa is the only region of the world right now that is growing, in fact, the majority of the reason why the world population is growing instead of shrinking is due to Africa’s high birth rates, if you find maps of this online the difference is very striking. China was poorer than most African countries during the 1960s, but due to the one child policy, they were able to stop their population growth early. However, Africa has a current workforce of about 600 million people despite having a population of 1.5 billion people. This is because due to rapid population growth the average age of an African is 19 meaning about half of Africans are children who are not economically productive yet. But by 2050, Africa is expected to add 700 million people, or about the population of Europe to their workforce. This will probably have a significant effect on their economic output.
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When Nigeria gained independence from Britain in 1960, it had 45 million people, which is smaller than the 52 million people who were living in Britain. Nigeria will have 400 million people in 2050 making it larger than the United States.