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In reply to the discussion: This One Weird Pic DESTROYS Ayn Rand [View all]jtuck004
(15,882 posts)26. This, you see, is government aid, given to thieving corporations who never did a lick of work.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027108928
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About $59 billion is spent on traditional social welfare programs. $92 billion is spent on corporate subsidies. So, the government spent 50% more on corporate welfare than it did on food stamps and housing assistance in 2006.
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'Course, this is old. They have figured out how to be much more lucrative, and there are more people left in poverty and near poverty to support them.
That is government aid.
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About $59 billion is spent on traditional social welfare programs. $92 billion is spent on corporate subsidies. So, the government spent 50% more on corporate welfare than it did on food stamps and housing assistance in 2006.
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Theres so much suffering in the world. It can all get pretty overwhelming sometimes. Consider, for a moment the sorrow in the eyes of a CEO whos just found out that his end-of-year bonus is only going to be a paltry $2.3 million.
It felt like a slap in the face. Imagine what it would feel like just before Christmas to find out that youre going to be forced to scrape by on your standard $8.4 million compensation package alone. Imagine what is was like to have to look into my daughters face and tell her that I couldnt afford to both buy her a dollar sign shaped island and hire someone to chew her food from now on, too. To put her in that situation of having to choose Shes only a child for Gods sake.
It doesnt have to be this way. Thanks to federal subsidies from taxpayers like you, CEOs like G. Allen Andreas of Archer Daniels Midland was able to take home almost $14 million in executive compensation last year. But hes one of the lucky ones. There are still corporations out there that actually have to provide goods and services to their consumers in order to survive. They need your help.
For just $93 billion a year the federal government is able to provide a better life for these CEOs and their families. Thats less than the cost of 240 million cups of coffee a day. Wont you help a needy corporation today?
Here.
'Course, this is old. They have figured out how to be much more lucrative, and there are more people left in poverty and near poverty to support them.
That is government aid.
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I wanted to vomit every time that creep said that. I wish they'd go back to their own dimension.
Mnemosyne
Aug 2015
#7
I wish you could do that. Likely get the trucks shot up in red areas, though. n/t
freshwest
Aug 2015
#40
Didn't they work and pay for those already? That isn't aid, that is giving back what was taken.n/t
jtuck004
Aug 2015
#16
It sure as shit isn't aid. It is paid for from people's labor, time wasting semantic arguments aside
jtuck004
Aug 2015
#24
"New Reply what, 40% of SS/Medicare recipients think they get no Federal aid?" Get your money back
jtuck004
Aug 2015
#35
This, you see, is government aid, given to thieving corporations who never did a lick of work.
jtuck004
Aug 2015
#26
Taxes pay for the firefighters that saved your home. No taxes, no firefighters or firefighters for
Dont call me Shirley
Aug 2015
#17
I know people my age (68) drawing Social Security, Medicare, and some even Food Stamps
Elwood P Dowd
Aug 2015
#22
Funny thing about these types, they want these services for them selves but not others
liberal N proud
Aug 2015
#32
"Snohomish County Fire District 1 receives 90% of its funding from property taxes"
Babel_17
Aug 2015
#38
Will he also shake the Lt.'s hand? Sorry to ask, but the Lt. doesn't look like he expects it.
freshwest
Aug 2015
#39
Oh yes, the irony. Libertarians all want less government... unless of course THEY NEED...
Raster
Aug 2015
#47
Sadly, baggers and libertarians usually don't have the cognitive skills to connect those dots.
catbyte
Aug 2015
#57
Great picture. But that guy will rationalize how he is differnt from the "takers."
kairos12
Aug 2015
#60