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applegrove

(129,799 posts) Wed Oct 29, 2025, 01:46 AM Oct 29

Don't shame those working and on SNAP benefits:

Over 71 million Americans are paid less than a living wage, and are forced into social safety nets like SNAP.

If you think too many people are receiving SNAP benefits, donâ€™t shame them.

Shame their employers paying them poverty wages and forcing taxpayers to subsidize the rest.
— Melanie Dâ€™Arrigo (@darrigomelanie.bsky.social) 2025-10-29T01:54:57.470Z

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Don't shame those working and on SNAP benefits: (Original Post) applegrove Oct 29 OP

Thank you! MIButterfly Oct 29 #1

If they voted for Trump and are on food stamps I damn well will shame them. Justice Brandeis Oct 29 #2

Fucking A! Stacey Grove Oct 29 #4

Keep at it, because the vast majority of them will still support him while their kids starve Orrex Oct 29 #5

The real truth! 2naSalit Oct 29 #3

I know and rely daily on a bunch of them. Hugin Oct 29 #6

MIButterfly

(1,812 posts)

1. Thank you!

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Wed Oct 29, 2025, 02:15 AM

Oct 29

You know, I grew up in Detroit in the 60s (OK Boomer). Back then, a man could get in with the Big 3, join the union and he'd be set for life. He could buy a house, a car, have the wife stay home and raise the kids (if she were so inclined), take a two-week vacation every year and retire with a pension. There was no such thing as "working poor." If you had a job, you could support yourself. Bygone days. Now, you need two incomes just to get by. Pensions are pretty much a thing of the past. The CEOs and shareholders keep making more and more while the workers make less and less.