@elonmusk Why can’t you use your wealth and influence to change the world and stop these culture wars and racist tropes you engage on daily. God damn!!!
Elon Musk is now a trillionaire. More specifically, his net worth is $1.2 trillion or $1200 billion. That number doesn’t even compute for most of us, so here is some helpful context:
The USDA needs $18.8 billion to feed every child in the US school system breakfast and lunch each day. Elon could pay for that 64x and still have money leftover.
The World Food Program needs $13 billion to feed the 110 million hungriest people on earth. Elon could pay for that 92x and still have money leftover.
The National Alliance to End Homelessness needs $9.6 billion to provide housing for every unhoused person in the United States. Elon could pay for that 125x and still have money leftover.
The average American teacher makes $74,495 per year. Elon could pay the annual salary of over 16 million teachers and still have money leftover.
The problem is not that we don’t have enough money. The problem is that we have built a world where one person can accumulate more wealth than the GDP of 180 countries while children go hungry, families drown in medical debt, teachers are forced to buy school supplies for their students, and people sleep on the streets.
This is a complete moral failure.
It is a moral failure of our country that we changed the rules to create a trillionaire while doing nothing about the 771,000 homeless and over 18 million who do not have enough to eat.
@ChrisCillizza You are an embarrassment, you got fired from CNN. Why do you want to sell your soul at the behest of this corporate leadership who is ruining the most successful program in television history. Thank you Scott, Sharyn and Cecilia!!!
@SpeakerJohnson Omg!!! A path to heaven? Where are these people coming from? Hurting the poor and immigrants and separating families are not what the scripture or any hiloly books for that matter said are ways to heaven. I can’t wait to November to vote you all out
A 65 year old legally blind and disabled woman says she has unintentionally lost 28 pounds because she can’t afford enough food under the Trump administration.
“Like the previous caller said, the end is coming near, and it couldn’t be any more true than for me.”
Heartbreaking