Thank you Mariana Chilton for your clear analysis of the monstrosity of a bill the Republican party just passed into law. Countless Americans will suffer.
It seems to me that the minimum wage should be high enough so that families with one wage earner on minimum wage for 40 hours per week will not need Medicaid or Food Stamps (SNAP).
Your well-written article shows the sad part of society and highlights the differences between the haves and the have-nots. Now, however, with the elimination of food, health and other safety nets, the MAGA Republicans and their leader have chosen to tell us ordinary people that we are not wanted and not cared for, other than any taxes we can give to the rich who should be paying their own fair share. The Wendigo is most appropriate as the monster who has taken over.
You write the truth; yet like so many of us on the left, you don't emphasize that the main reason we need SNAP, and Medicaid and other public "charity", is because the corporate backers funding our politicians, those yawning maws of selfishness, will NOT pay fair wages. Every government benefit program is structured so that those of us in the Middle Working Class, those who manage to command a living wage, are taxed to provide food, care and housing for workers who cannot, while corporate profit, shared by the fortunate 10%, is shoveled into this insatiable trough of privilege. These "charitable" programs are all more forms of taxing the Middle to subsidize profits, just as you say of Walmart.
Thank you Mariana Chilton for your clear analysis of the monstrosity of a bill the Republican party just passed into law. Countless Americans will suffer.
In certain Mahayana Buddhist teachings, these Windigos are called Hungry Ghosts.
Their greed knows no bounds, it is never sate; its final end is self-consumption. An ultimate cancer, feeding upon its own life.
Thank you so much for the article.
It seems to me that the minimum wage should be high enough so that families with one wage earner on minimum wage for 40 hours per week will not need Medicaid or Food Stamps (SNAP).
Your well-written article shows the sad part of society and highlights the differences between the haves and the have-nots. Now, however, with the elimination of food, health and other safety nets, the MAGA Republicans and their leader have chosen to tell us ordinary people that we are not wanted and not cared for, other than any taxes we can give to the rich who should be paying their own fair share. The Wendigo is most appropriate as the monster who has taken over.
You write the truth; yet like so many of us on the left, you don't emphasize that the main reason we need SNAP, and Medicaid and other public "charity", is because the corporate backers funding our politicians, those yawning maws of selfishness, will NOT pay fair wages. Every government benefit program is structured so that those of us in the Middle Working Class, those who manage to command a living wage, are taxed to provide food, care and housing for workers who cannot, while corporate profit, shared by the fortunate 10%, is shoveled into this insatiable trough of privilege. These "charitable" programs are all more forms of taxing the Middle to subsidize profits, just as you say of Walmart.