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People go hungry so Multi-Millionaires can strive. News at 11.
These people need to take a look at The Statistics™ so they understand that the economy is actually very good while their stomachs rumble
monthly grocery bill that now tops $2,400 for her family of seven
I’m not saying the article is wrong, but if you have seven children, you did this to yourself
A family of 7 implies five children, but also it doesn’t sound like she’s making very smart food choices if she’s so concerned about her budget
Enjoy giving more money to Israel and Ukraine guys
Right, people definitly going hungry because the US spends 15% of it’s military budget on foreign aid. You’re some regular Einstein.
Right, instead of giving your own country aid, you give it to a war. You’re some regular retard
The US has more than enough to ensure both can happen. It just doesn’t because having money sitting in an account or invested in whatever makes number go up and number go up make happy.
Maybe you struggle to picture two things at once but I’m told with certainty that it is actually possible to do multiple things simultaneously.
That comes out to an average of $330 per person, if you assume an even distribution of taxes paid, which is completely false, so the real figure is substantially lower for the median person.
Ukrainians are actually dying to Russian rockets. Don’t know how you can claim some moral superiority
Stop moralizing. Why do you think the same money going to Ukraine is tied to Israel and Taiwan? Think about it. What connects those three?
Remember the food lines when Trump was President? I do
the lines at the food pantry every week went from a few people and 5 minutes to get through to 50-60+ and 60-90 minutes during that time.
We used to have a strategic food supply in the US in case other countries fell into famine. Or, if we needed it ourselves. No longer. I guess Congress felt it was too expensive to keep.
Don’t tell me they got rid of the strategic cheese reserve!
The rice was a big hit. No better foreign relations than giving a big ol bag of rice to a starving family. Stars and stripes printed on the outside.
But with rent that’s more than doubled…
We really need politicians to start paying more attention to the housing crisis. Housing costs have been such a massive squeeze on literally everyone, and it’s an incredibly stupidly self-inflicted wound because for the last 50 years we collectively decided that housing should be a primary investment asset for all Americans instead of a place to live, and fundamentally, you cannot have housing both be a good investment and have it be cheap.
Literally just build more housing. Public housing, subsidized housing, private market rate, yuppie condos, literally anything.
https://usafacts.org/articles/population-growth-has-outpaced-home-construction-for-20-years/
In the last 20 years, we build around a million single-family homes. In that same time period, the population increased by 3 million. There is no universe in which this happens and housing doesn’t become significantly more expensive.
