Summary
House Republicans are considering a 20% cut to SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) benefits, impacting over 22 million households, as part of a $5 trillion deficit reduction plan.
The proposed changes to SNAP would save $247 billion over a decade by rolling back a Biden-era increase tied to the USDA’s “thrifty food plan.”
Critics argue the cuts could harm vulnerable populations and reduce demand for food production, while Republicans view the changes as a way to curb spending and encourage employment.
I don’t know if the Republicans have any idea of how to deal with what is coming when it comes to the job market. If software eats the world, AI will eat software…and even all the “good” jobs will soon be scarce to nil - turns out even the “creative” jobs can and will be automated. As expected, the C-suite stuff could be some of the easiest stuff to automate, but that’s not where they are going to start eliminating jobs, as you can well imagine. I think some people - myself included - thought that things like trucking and mining would be reduced to basically zero jobs first. But they are shooting for things like writers, animators, software developers, basic lawyer stuff, tax preparation, and it’s quite possible those jobs will be most impacted first. So telling your kids to level up on skills? Well, you can fuck right off with any of those skills unless you have a massive pile of money, too.
How are we going to determine how to distribute all the wealth being created when jobs are increasingly going to disappear? We have been playing musical chairs all this time and now the music stops, and it just means that more and more wealth is accrued by dipshits like Elon, while everyone else is kicked harder?
I wonder how long the broligarchs really think that will last? These assholes are building bunkers for a reason, and it’s because they know full well the guillotines are going to come out if this reaches what looks to be an obvious conclusion.