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Mikel Jollett @Mikel_Jollett
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So the rich get a TRILLION dollars and the poor get canned beans and powdered milk.

This. Isn't. America.
When I was a kid we got blocks of government cheese from the church. It was nasty except in noodles or grilled cheese. You can't live on it.

The idea that a country so rich would give $1.5 TRILLION to the wealthy while cutting basic food items needed for SURVIVAL is disgusting.
We were on food stamps when I was a kid. It was already difficult just to get enough to eat. We had to compost and grow produce. There was simply not enough to buy healthy food.

This would make it worse.

But the super rich need $1.5 TRILLION?
Yes. People don't understand that aspect of this. My mom had to bust ass with a full time job and growing four vegetable gardens in the back just so we could eat something green.

Healthy food ain't cheap. And it doesn't come powdered or in a fuckin can.

Just give me a like or a story if you've been there.

For me, we went to the food bank at the church after the check-out line when we would ask our mom why everyone else's money was green when ours looked like "monopoly" money.
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