8 men have as much wealth as 3.6 Billion people...but a single mom on Food stamps is the problem

[iluvtennis]

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Truth. 👆

[Blue Owl]

1. K&R

Indeed that is the problem at hand.

And the issue is cloaked by the ridiculous wedge issues like trans athletes, immigrant workers, and bibles in schools....

[Justice matters.]

2. Architects will be forced to design bathrooms for trans people only...

That will raise the costs of building... then on rentals, on top of everything else.

[MacKasey]

6. Rest Rooms should be like port a potty

Unisex and one to a customer

Church I attend is over a hundred years old and has 3 rest rooms, all unisex and single usage

Stores are going to unisex rest rooms.

The only problem are the men who have not been taught to put the seat down

[NBachers]

9. The problem is all men think they have a bull's-eye aim. If the seat's down they think they will miss it. They won't

[Irish_Dem]

11. Maybe we can have a woman's portapotty.

[MacKasey]

8. Dup deleted

[OhioBack2Blue]

15. For 1.14% of the population? I respectfully disagree. A bigger problem is...

getting the legacy bathrooms and buildings into ADA compliance, especially in Republican controlled non-profit or public orgs.

Republicans hate complying with the ADA and when they are forced to comply they cut corners or do things on the cheap just to get by because "we don't have any of those people here," or "all this for only 1 person." whiny bs.

In Ohio, for example, in many rural/ small city courthouses, they just dismiss the people with disabilities from jury duty during the voir dire process due to the buildings being out of compliance, rather than comply. "is there anyone here with a disability?" "You are dismissed." I don't think that is a proper solution.

61 million people in the U.S. have a disability (~26%) or 1 in 4 Americans.

Interestingly, in applying UNIVERSAL DESIGN, architects can often ACCOMMODATE both concerns and others such as parents caring for opposite sex children, in bathroom remodels.

[ShazzieB]

20. Republicans would rather do anything than raise taxes a fraction of a cent.

There are so many government programs that are pathetically underfunded - everything from schools and libraries to public health departments, public housing, and food stamps. Republican politicians bend over backwards to keep them starved for money, and then when they can't adequately meet the needs they were created to meet, Repubs cite those failures of as proof that government programs can't do anything worthwhile snd are therefore a waste of money.

[NoMoreRepugs]

3. Read some of the comments - people blame the poor and see no problem with the oligarchs.

We truly are a shithole country.

[Aviation Pro]

13. Let's all try to remember that

When they become a poor in the not-too-distant future.

[lame54]

18. Some of them are already poor

[riversedge]

36. and so many of them still believe that Trump's wealth will Trickle Down.

[airplaneman]

33. I see the same problem with the anti-government croud

The Government cant do anything right.
But
Corporations are just all just angels as you never hear anything negative from this crew (let the market decide)
The market has decided next quarters profits over planetary Omnicide.
-Airplane

[Trust_Reality]

4. It's the R party. R:

Republican
Russia dominated
Racist
Runaway greed
Radical religiosity
Ruins the economy

[Macrophylla]

5. What a difference

Could be made if those 8 people no longer walked the earth?

We slaves outnumber the masters.
They should live in fear.

[peregrinus]

25. They do, they are building bunkers

In places like New Zealand and Kauai

[lindysalsagal]

7. All churches should do this.

[dchill]

10. Well, yeah, but...

[malaise]

12. It is the truth

Rec

[leftstreet]

14. DuRec

[jalan48]

16. A blunt and effective message. Let's run on this in future elections.

[Ziggysmom]

17. That figure is from Oxfam in 2017. They own even more now!

The richest eight own half of the world. 🤬 per The Guardian


https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/18/the-radical-who-left-oxfam-to-fight-for-democracy-eight-men-own-half-the-world-where-does-this-end

[Mr.Bee]

19. We Must Shut Down These Single Mothers On Food Stamps!

Uh, wait... I was raised by a single mother and she was a teacher, too! Never mind.
And Matt Damon was my best friend.

[Seinan Sensei]

21. Endless discussion about Minimum Wage

I want an discussion on MAXIMUM Wage
Maybe a law on how much is too much.

Mick Jagger: "Too much is never enough"
Billionaire: "Sounds about right"

[ReRe]

23. I think you've got something there Seinann_Sensei

Why don't you pen an OP of your own on the subject?

[Evolve Dammit]

27. Poor man wanna be rich; rich man wanna be king. And king ain't satisfied cuz he's got everything.

[Evolve Dammit]

28. "...till he rules everything" Sorry; memory didn't serve well there!

[DFW]

34. Dr. Seuss had that one pegged 60 or 70 years ago

“I’m Yertle the turtle, O marvelous me
“For I am the ruler of all that I see!”

A
Ending, appropriately, with something like:

“And Yertle the turtle, that marvelous he
“Is king of the mud, for that’s all he can see”

[lonely bird]

35. So did Percy Bysshe Shelley

https://poets.org/poem/ozymandias

[DFW]

37. Yes, that one was a classic

Geisel put it into terms that children could understand.

[Evolve Dammit]

39. I loved those stories. Amazing illustrations. And Yertle got de-throned all right!

[ReRe]

22. K&R

Republicans have complained about taxes since Jesus walked the earth. E.g., they don't like paying taxes for schools "because they don't have any kids." That's not a cliché. I lived in the deep south one time and couldn't believe that someone would complain about such a thing. They howled! Can you imagine what kind of society this would be if no one had to pay taxes? It would be total chaos. No stoplights. No road repair. No fill in the blank. There could BE no society without taxes. One either likes civilized society or not. So which is it Republican trolls? Taxes are the reason we have a (somewhat, after this election) civilized society. Taxes are the charge for living and doing business in the USA.

I have always found (and I've been around for a while) Methodists to be pretty good people. (And no, I'm not one).

[Shoonra]

24. The simplest economic fact ....

Money given to the poor goes immediately into circulation - at the local grocery, the local department store, the local Salvation Army store, etc. The poor don't sock that money away in offshore banks or fritter it away on the French Riviera. And their local stores are surely grateful for whatever money their customers can spend, and small businesses grow and can hire more people that way. Do you really begrudge a single mother spending a dollar on the lottery - yet you don't object to overindulged billionaires spending half-a-million for a ten minute ride in a rocket ship.

The billionaires, on the other hand, have contrived things so they pay almost nothing in taxes. They don't make a meaningful contribution to that single mother or her children, to a disabled vet, or a homeless highschool graduate. Their money is hidden in foreign banks and they spend their money on foreign vacations and frills from Paris or Rome. Make them pay something meaningful to the country that enabled their prosperity and everyone will be lifted.

[Evolve Dammit]

26. Truth!

[blueseas]

29. K%R

up!

[IronLionZion]

30. Generations will grow old and die waiting for the job creators to trickle it down.

Yet somehow those billionaires keep getting wealthier without any trickle down. hmm...

[Dan]

31. I think that I need to read up on the French Revolution....

Pigs get Fed, Hogs get slaughtered.

[OldBaldy1701E]

38. I would also recommend a piece I used to have on VHS.

It is from The History Channel, and it is called fittingly, 'The French Revolution'. There have been many programs similar to this one, but I thought it was the best one for encapsulating the basics of what happened. It is narrated by that History Channel Staple: Edward Hermann. Make sure you confirm that he is the narrator for confirmation that you have the correct one. Enjoy!

(For those who may not remember that name, he played Herman Munster in the 90s Fox TV movie, 'Here Come The Munsters' and was the video store owner and weird guy in the movie 'The Lost Boys'. But he will forever be known to myself as my hero, FDR, in the mini-series Franklin and Eleanor, and the 'sequel', 'Franklin and Eleanor:The White House Years'. I watched that when it aired in 1976-77. He is so good!)

[Stargazer99]

40. This is what I have advocated in many of my threads-the rich keep screwing the pooch it will happen

[AZLD4Candidate]

32. Social Darwinism at its finest.