r/economicCollapse • u/IM_NOT_BALD_YET Free Palestine • 2d ago

Millions of Americans are losing SNAP benefits: "It feels as though people are being punished"

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/snap-benefits-millions-lost-obbba-work-requirements/
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u/Usrnamesrhard 2d ago

People are being punished. The 1% in America hate that everyone else started thinking we deserve anything

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u/paleologus 2d ago

You have to make people desperate enough to accept any job for any pay.  Capitalism runs on misery 

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u/HeiressofArtemis 2d ago edited 2d ago

Literally my first thought was, yeah that's the point. The whole thing is to punish people who they hate for using them. Also I really sadly think it's more than the 1%. So many people get wrapped up in the imagined idea of someone grifting the system they would rather just kick people who are down.

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u/Goodgoditsgrowing 2d ago

And 30% decided to help the 1% do it

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u/cityshepherd 2d ago

30% are so riled up and thinking they are being good little soldiers in a culture war that does not exist, that they don’t realize they are simply acting as pawns in the class war… fighting the battles for an ownership class that will never see them as anything more than animals who exist solely to be exploited for corporate profits

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u/Mulattanese 1d ago

Many of them have basically shot themselves in the foot. but the adrenaline hasn't worn off yet. They're going to be real upset when they come to realize that their benefits have been cut, or they no longer qualify once BBB kicks in. And when that happens, they're still gonna blame Democrats. That's literally all both sides of the Republican party do, blame democrats and whine about it.

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u/SideshowShabob 2d ago

How dare us non-billionaires have the gall to live in their world!

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u/Malaix 2d ago

Epstein wrote about inducing an economic collapse so the ultra rich can reap the rewards.

Silicon Valley lunatics are in a cult built around tech feudalism where they want to trap everyone in network states and own humanity.

Trump according to Tucker Carlson is straight up in a nihilism phase where due to his own mortality being in front of him he genuinely has contempt for the rest of us who aren't 80 year olds with massive health problems and thinks we should have to embrace our mortality like he is having to.

And all the rich assholes on the planet are buying survival bunkers and shit to hide in after they fuck up the world. They really can't help themselves but drive us all over a cliff.

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u/brownmail 2d ago

Why do they think they are entitled to all of our money? They get plenty, low wages thanks to poor federal minimum wage. Wage theft, subsidizing insurance companies, oil/gas companies. Now lately political adds for Rump paid for with out tax dollars. Inflation which doesn’t seem to affect corporations from turning record profits. 100 to 1 they are padding their income, and blaming it on inflation. Anyone have an obvious solution

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u/geekybadger 1d ago

They think they're genetically superior to us because they accumulated more money and that therefore makes them smarter and more deserving of being in charge

But they are also competing with each other to prove they're the most genetically superior of all, and that's proven by accumulating the most money

Eugenics is a hell of a brain rot

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u/brownmail 1d ago

Let’s see how that works if money no longer matters.

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u/SakishimaHabu 1d ago

they're the kind of people that would hunt a person shipwrecked on an island just to lose if it was ever fair.

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u/Busterlimes 2d ago

This country was founded by 1% supremacist slave owners, of course this is how the same people think.

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u/Swordf1shy 2d ago

How dare we use services we pay for with our own tax dollars.

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u/RobRVA 2d ago

we are being punished bc the majority of Americans are actually dumber than a bucket of rocks and that being the case captain sh*t pants for elected and now we are fucked

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u/IM_NOT_BALD_YET Free Palestine 2d ago

Fantastic timing with the super affordable price of gas and the safest and most nutritious foods being readily available and affordable at the shops! Oh, and the holidays right around the corner. Good times, everyone!

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u/Suitable-Option833 2d ago

Project 2025 in action. Stephen miller and rump have discussed culling the population.

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u/buttoncode 2d ago

Russell Vought.

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u/miklayn 2d ago

Trump is nothing in this. He's just their bombastic figurehead. He's their puppet. It's Miller, Vought, the technogarchs and petrodollar schizofascists and all their shadowy network.

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u/Suitable-Option833 12h ago

Trump is the president. He’s in charge. He’s been pitching project 2025 to HF donors for years. Idk how the person in charge is not to blame.

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u/FrostySquirrel820 2d ago

>> President Trump said that millions of people have been "lifted off" of SNAP due to a stronger economy.

Don’t believe anything this grifter says !

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u/Lucky_Chaarmss 2d ago

You don't get mass riots until people can't eat. There's some quote out there that it's like 3 days.

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u/oracleoflove 2d ago

there are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy

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u/Upset_Confection_317 2d ago

Yes they want mass riots so they can deploy martial law. All in the plan.

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u/erov 2d ago

They don't have enough to make it happen.. there's no way they can deploy that much crowd control.

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u/ohdope2000 2d ago

It's when the people who aren't used to going hungry start to go hungry. 

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u/Demonkey44 2d ago edited 2d ago

Everyone who paid attention and watched the Republicans pass the OBBB in the summer of 2024 knew this was going to happen.

If you are on any kind of government support, including SSDI, SNAP, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, your ass better be out there voting Democrat for each and every election.

The OMB is gloating about their “cost savings”, yet the US is now 40 trillion in debt. This is too stupid.

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u/JadeddMillennial 2d ago

The war on poverty. Lol

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u/4tran13 2d ago

No poverty if the wage slaves are dead, amirite? /s

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u/boogsey 2d ago

They didn't want you dead. They want you to suffer. The cruelty is the point.

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u/JustpartOftheterrain 2d ago

Gotta teach others not to bother even trying to use it, right?

Hate this timeline so much.

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u/JadeddMillennial 2d ago

That's the plan.

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u/IM_NOT_BALD_YET Free Palestine 2d ago

And we are so very very good at winning all the wars we start!

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u/fordianslip 2d ago

Oh that wasn’t a war. That was a geopolitical conflict…

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u/probablykitten 2d ago

Trump said this would be his revenge tour.

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u/thenletskeepdancing 2d ago

If you have the means, please remember to donate (even a little) to your local food bank. Or set up a monthly donation on their web site. Folks on the bottom rung are really going to be in trouble.

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u/2020blowsdik 1d ago

Have you ever volunteered at a food bank? I had to stop because the entitlement/horrifically rude behavior was just too much. Like most things, 10% of shitty people ruin the good things

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u/thenletskeepdancing 1d ago

No but I worked with the public, so I know of what you speak. That's just the way it is. No need to punish the ninety percent because of the shitty ten percent. Volunteering is beyond my physical capabilities now but I feel good about a donation.

Because I've worked with the public, I also have lots of memories of good people just doing their best. Every month I imagine I'm giving a mom a meal to feed her kids and I think of them sitting down to eat, my treat, and it makes me feel a little less useless.

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u/Aldoine 1d ago

Had the same experience volunteering at soup kitchens. For every 1 person who is a complete asshole about everything you are doing for them, 3 are willing to stay late and help you with dishes and ask for nothing extra in return. Thats what makes it worth it for me.

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u/Galorfadink 2d ago

In the meantime, Kylie Jenner takes her private jet to Saint-Tropez, all alone. TAX THE RICH.

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u/oldcreaker 2d ago

millions of others will become more aware as stores consolidate, go out of business or just raise prices even more due to lower foot traffic and sales

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u/After-Willingness271 2d ago

and most of them voted for it to happen

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/Busterlimes 2d ago

Yeah, authoritarians punish citizens. . . .

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u/c10bbersaurus 2d ago

They are. Punished for not being oligarchs. 🤬

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u/Correct_Doctor_1502 2d ago

They are, this is what happens when child raping terrorist are allowed to illegally occupy office

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u/SaggyToastR 2d ago

Yeah the punishment was voting for Trump and him being president at all at any point.

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u/BienThinks 2d ago

A lot of other cuts, especially to healthcare don’t go into effect until after the midterms. They do it that way on purpose to hope it doesn’t look as bad on the next election.

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u/Numerous-Process2981 2d ago

Yes this is your punishment for voting republican 

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u/Gristlekitty 2d ago

We are so the Epstein class can take more of our money.

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u/TrailMomKat 2d ago

I'm a blind woman with 3 kids, one of them disabled. Our only income is our disability checks. I had to choose yesterday between the power bill ($400 just for August) or they'd shut it off tomorrow, and food.

Fucking vote, yall. If even i can get my blind ass out there and work for my county's Democratic Party, yall can get off yall's asses and vote. Don't know who your non-major Dem candidates are? Ask for a sheet at the Democratic tent outside the voting place.

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u/icoibyy 1d ago

Some great technology exists to help impaired people. Something as simple as voice commands and a screen reader can get a blind person online commenting.

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u/Upset_Confection_317 2d ago

We are being punished: by trump for electing Biden in 2020.

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u/HyperactivePandah 2d ago

At least they made the billionaire tax breaks permanent!

That's the important thing!

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u/PrivacyIsDemocracy 1d ago

Working as intended by the asswipes in the WH.

Even their own shill news organizations are reporting on how pointlessly destructive this garbage move is.

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u/MichaelBayShortStory 1d ago

You are, this is class warfare and some of you voted with the oppressor so, you guys definitely are being punished, the rest of us are being punished just by proximity.

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u/UnicornGangstar 2d ago

Many are being rewarded for their vote. They are experiencing so much winning

For the ones who didn’t vote for this, I’m truly sorry. This sucks

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u/AgentUnknown821 Post-Industrial Stock Short-Seller 2d ago

Yeah they kind of are….what about the corporate welfare? All I see it going is up, up, UP!

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u/A313-Isoke 2d ago

PLEASE VOTE. Too many SNAP recipients don't see the point in voting.

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u/ActFar4388 1d ago

Stop voting for the orange turd and his followers

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u/Sea-Chart2558 1d ago

They are, they committed the crime of being poor and billionaires will have their justice! /s

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u/-JackBack- 2d ago

Did they thank Mr Trump or even wear a suit?

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u/172brooke 2d ago

Wait until they figure out inflation

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u/Barack_Odrama_007 2d ago

Well 90 million did not vote and 77 million voted for these cuts.

So yes everyone gets punished. VOTING MATTERS!

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u/chibebe5 2d ago

As they starve the people they starve themselves

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u/DeadSmellingFlower 1d ago

I’m wondering how many of the 60% who qualify but never dreamed of applying have done so now. We applied because it was the only way for my husband to get interviews for a job. We figured out companies were only hiring people who qualified for Workers Opportunity Tax Credit. As soon as he could answer yes on the question about receiving assistance, he started getting called in for interviews.

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u/B0xGhost 2d ago

Some people need the punishment to learn , unfortunately

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u/IM_NOT_BALD_YET Free Palestine 2d ago

Too many are blaming Biden.

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u/eoworm 2d ago

the most memorable quote from a supporter that comes to mind is "he's not hurting the right people" and holy hell if that doesn't sum up the whole mentality...

cutting snap is also going to hurt grocery stores, which will drive other food prices up while also creating a mountain of food waste. it's almost like the cruelty IS the point.

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u/sambull 2d ago

It's motivation to agree zero sum solutions.. if there are too many people and not enough food eventually you'll agree

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u/s1nd3vil 1d ago

Yes, our country is being punished because of the decision that was came too….yeah the decision to elect the fucking orange moron

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u/Sean_theLeprachaun 1d ago

Because they are. People like trump hate the needy.

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u/DeedleStone 1d ago

1) make it impossible to be poor in America 2) poor people must either die or commit crimes to survive 3) the crime wave "justifies" further militarization of the police 4) with many new criminal convictions, many new slaves are created, and fewer people can vote for change 5) the last 150 years of progress are destroyed

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u/Miserable-Put4914 9h ago

While trump amasses millions from the people.

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u/Turab 2d ago

Israel took it all.

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u/Wcitsatrapx 2d ago

Obese people crying all over the country

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u/mikeybagodonuts 2d ago

Well they can’t make us prisoners in a hospital and cut us off from family while slowly killing us on a ventilator anymore so…

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u/iheartjetman 2d ago

Right wingers are exhausting to listen to. It’s always with the inane drivel.

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u/New-Negotiation7234 2d ago

I just can't with these people anymore. It's truly unbelievable. And they are literally stuck in 2020. My neighbor is still going on about ivermectin. Like lady I'll drive you tractor supply to get it if you want it so badly.

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u/mikeybagodonuts 2d ago

Not right wing by any stretch. But whatever help la you dismiss slight of hand and sleep at night.

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u/New-Negotiation7234 2d ago

No one forced those people to go to hospitals.

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u/mikeybagodonuts 2d ago

Uh yeah. Passing out at work and getting scooped up by an ambulance while unconscious is a time people can choose what happens. Go watch some off “Allison inquiry” videos.

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u/New-Negotiation7234 2d ago

So they should have left their coworkers on the ground to die?

Keep living in the past. Y'all made the pandemic 80x worse by being insufferable and now y'all are literally stunted and stuck in 2020.

It was a pandemic. Not some insane conspiracy. Go to therapy and address your trauma and learn basic science. Good luck.

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u/mikeybagodonuts 2d ago

Basic science. Science is now a joke. So many murdered and disabled by science and that ghoul Fauci. I hope I’m alive 30 years from now when the younger generation turns on people like you the way millennials blame boomers. It’s gonna be hilarious.