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Politics was fun to discuss on this board from 2011-2016.

Everything went to crap after 2016.

"What is the spending on Welfare?
In FY 2019 total US government spending on welfare — federal, state, and local — is “guesstimated” to be $1,118 billion, including $650 billion for Medicaid, and $467 billion in other welfare."
https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/year_spending_2020USbn_20bc6n_203031#usgs302

Now most of that is medicaid, sss, etc. However the government still spent 360 MILLION dollars on just foodstamps in 2018. Why is that an important number is showing how dumb politics is?

Ask your self a simple question. How many Americans are there? About 320 million right? Give or take. That means if we simply stopped ALL food stamp programs nationwide we could send every SINGLE AMERICAN 1 million dollars and save millions of dollars.

If there are 320 million people in the US, that would be $1.13 dollars per person.

We should be spending money on math education.

I know what food stamps are. I grew up in circumstances where they helped during rough times. I hold no judgement.

We send far more on other things.

Personally I wish this section of the board didn't exist

How many of my fellow posters think politics is stupid? I have gotten to a point where I generally shut anyone up who even starts their monkey poo waving around me anymore.

There are no logical arguments anymore. Instead all you have is a competition to see which side can pick up the largest pile of poo and sling it the hardest.

The real reality is that the taxes we pay are such a small and insignificant amount of the US budget that we normal income Americans have ZERO financial value to the government. 80% of tax income from the government comes from taxes on trading. Things like tariffs. 15% comes from taxation of the wealthiest 10% of the country. You and I might if we are lucky equal 5% of the nation's income.

So if they don't actually gain much from taxing normal people why do they do it? The simple truth is to keep people too poor and desperate to stand up to them. Don't believe me? Then can I throw some simple math and logic at you? Cool, check out the following:

"What is the spending on Welfare?
In FY 2019 total US government spending on welfare — federal, state, and local — is “guesstimated” to be $1,118 billion, including $650 billion for Medicaid, and $467 billion in other welfare."
https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/year_spending_2020USbn_20bc6n_203031#usgs302

Now most of that is medicaid, sss, etc. However the government still spent 360 MILLION dollars on just foodstamps in 2018. Why is that an important number is showing how dumb politics is?

Ask your self a simple question. How many Americans are there? About 320 million right? Give or take. That means if we simply stopped ALL food stamp programs nationwide we could send every SINGLE AMERICAN 1 million dollars and save millions of dollars.

If that didn't blow your mind enough then lets do this. We can stop all goverment programs of EVERY SINGLE KIND that gives out aid and simple main every single american 1 BILLION dollars and it would save the US budget 600 billion dollars a year.

Is that sinking in yet? It would be cheaper to send every single American 1 billion dollars and stop all government aid. We would save at LEAST 600 billion dollars.

So why don't we do it? Who would work for our corporate masters if we ever did so? Enjoy your darn politics as the hatred you spew enslaves you even further to the political party machine.

About this stupid.

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/spongebob-violent-racist-colonizer

"SpongeBob SquarePants," which celebrated its 20th anniversary on Friday, has millions of fans around the world, but one University of Washington professor is clearly not among them.

For a recently published academic journal, the professor, Holly M. Barker, wrote an article "Unsettling SpongeBob and the Legacies of Violence on Bikini Bottom," in which she offers a different take on the affable sea sponge.

"SpongeBob Squarepants and his friends play a role in normalizing the settler colonial takings of indigenous lands while erasing the ancestral Bikinian people from their nonfictional homeland," the article reads.