"What if a drug addict used your tax dollars to get SNAP benefits?"
The government uses my tax dollars to bomb villages, arm warlords, fund coups, and trafficks children through proxy states. If a "junkie" eats because of me, that's the most moral thing my taxes have done.
I fixed it for you:
“Rent is too high!”
Corporate landlords bought entire neighborhoods and jacked prices so high you need a co-signer just to breathe.
“Groceries cost too much!”
Billion-dollar food conglomerates are price-gouging you while bragging about record profits.
“There aren’t enough jobs!”
CEOs laid off Americans to pump stock prices and walked away with bonuses the size of small countries’ budgets.
“Women don’t feel safe walking down the street!”
Statistically the danger is coming from Americans they already know, not the imaginary immigrant you turned into a movie villain.
“Traffic is terrible!”
That is what happens when everyone drives a giant truck to buy a single iced coffee. Consumerism is wonderful, isn’t it?
“Healthcare is too expensive!”
A private insurance cartel did that. Your elected officials built that system brick by brick.
“Welfare spending is through the roof!”
Undocumented immigrants cannot collect welfare. If you believe they can, you should go pick up an Economics for Dummies book and read about it.
“I can’t afford a car!”
Automakers slapped luxury prices on basic models because they know you will blame anything except the corporations squeezing you.
“I can’t afford a house!”
Hedge funds bought entire zip codes with cash offers. Not one undocumented worker is outbidding families at those auctions.
Many problems.
A simple reality:
Immigrants are not wrecking your life.
Your government let billionaires strip this country for parts and then told you to blame the people with the least power. They know who’s actually bleeding you dry, but calling out corporate greed would upset their donors… so they hand you immigrants as the scapegoat and hope you’re too stupid to notice.
Punch up, not sideways.
If you're the Qatari royal family worth $335 billion, Trump gives you an Air Force facility in Idaho.
If you're the President of Argentina, Trump gives you a $20 billion bailout.
If you're an American whose health care premiums are about to double? Tough luck.
Most Republicans are good people. Most Democrats are good people.
The White House says outrageous things to make you hate your neighbor.
Your neighbor isn’t the problem. The White House is.
Trump has been the worst president ever for farmers.
Twice.
But they voted for him three times.
Now they want the rest of America to give them welfare.
When they did it to themselves.
But they don’t like socialism.
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like. https://t.co/uts7JpJZzN
Been thinking a lot lately about the morals of Jesus of Nazareth.
As a tan man from the Middle East, if Jesus were an undocumented American immigrant, I wonder if angry mobs would get ICE to deport him — especially for speaking out against greed and advocating for the poor.