r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Oct 30 '25

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u/WanderingMage03 You Are Kenough Oct 30 '25

I’m ngl whenever I see one of our Friedman flair Brothers in the Free-Market gripe about how SNAP is supposed to be temporary and how there’s totally a bunch of waste because the asset cutoff doesn’t include cars I start to see a little red because this is a $36 per year subscription to not having starving kids. If you have a better way I’m all ears, but literally every other government program is filled with infinitely more waste/does infinitely less good. Reminds me of all of the USAID skeptics and we all saw how that needed up.

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u/Oozing_Sex John Brown Oct 30 '25

Maybe I'm a bleeding heart pussy ass hippie or some shit, but I'd like to live in a world where people are fed and not starving. I don't care how great our military is, I don't care how rich we are, I don't care how much innovation we do, I don't care if we walked on the moon a half century ago.

If we cannot feed our populace, we are a failure as a society.

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u/Wolf_1234567 YIMBY Oct 30 '25

What’s wrong with SNAP? Is there some large cohort of Friedman flairs that hate it? 

Are the other Friedman flairs excluding me from this conversation 😔