I knew this Trump pic reminded me of something!
[Sigourney Weaver in "Alien"]
Absolutely no idea why this made me laugh so hard.
(There's just something about it... perfect?)
Not ONLY are people losing food benefits (which is the worst part of this), but food retailers, wholesalers, packers, manufacturers, shippers, and farmers are losing sales. When Ag programs like SNAP and WIC get cut, NOTHING replaces those sales.
IOW: It's BAD FOR THE ECONOMY, too!
Odd man (/pariah) out. Can't normalize this shit.
Some detail about Social Security and its Trust Fund might be useful:
The basic concept was of a payroll tax on current workers that would cover the cost of benefits to retirees, etc.
BUT, the outsized Boomer Generation wasn't going to be covered in retirement, so they upped collections to build ā