Brief thoughts on SNAP

There are a lot of people who work full time, but qualify for food stamps. That, all by itself, is a damning indictment of their employers, and our society at large. And there are others (Walmart comes to mind) who intentionally hire multiple part time employees to fill a single full time position, in order to avoid having to treat those employees as human beings.

So the business model is to pay wages that nobody can live on, and let the taxpayer pick up the tab for the difference. And we do, with food stamps, WICK, section 8 housing, and the rest of the taxpayer funded safety net.

And the right (particularly those who suck their livings off the public tit) has be demonizing these people as somehow less moral, less deserving, less human, than the rest of us, because their employer is an asshole. To some degree this works, a lot of people buy into the 'welfare queen' fiction. But too many still notice that is the employer who denies people a living wage who is really at fault.

Of course the moral solution is to raise the minimum wage, and to enforce that labor laws for businesses like Walmart, so that the employees are actually able to organize without retaliation and intimidation. The right of course would never buy into that, because their constituency does not include people who do actual work.

But fear not, they do have a solution! Kick people off SNAP! Sure their children will be even more malnourished than they are now, but the workers will not be living on the public safety net. No more evil employers!

Don't you wish you had thought of this?

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