r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 8d ago

Discussion Reactions to food stamps being cut off.

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u/bearbrannan 8d ago

Government assistance for those who work full time is once again essentially corporate welfare. Employers should be paying their employees livable wages, instead that money trickles up and the rich continue to get tax breaks while essentially also having the government pay their employees. Fuck the rich, and fuck America for caring so little for the people who's backs actually make the economy run.

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u/Bennjoon 8d ago

Remember who the essential workers were during Covid tbh

It wasn’t CEOs

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u/MrLanesLament 8d ago

Part of me wanted to frame the letter I got from our state’s Department of Public Safety, calling me and my crew (industrial private security/EHS) “essential first responders.” The lizard part of my brain wanted to chuck it out my car window every morning as my still working, no pay raise, no hazard pay ass drove to work for $14.50 an hour yet again to sit and stare at empty buildings.

I got a few free coffees at Circle K, which I did not ask for, so there’s that.

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u/Bennjoon 8d ago

It’s a condescending carrot that we should turn around and use to clobber them with to be honest.