Mark

@brivael Francia exporta libertad, igualdad y fraternidad desde hace 237 años. Quienes invocan el "wokismo" como destrucción de la humanidad simplemente reflejan su falta de respeto de la identidad ajena, y su necedad de valores, mientras piden respeto a sus ideas niegan las de los demás.

Dear @AOC, Ah yes. The $50 billion wage theft number. I have been waiting for someone to trot that one back out, because it never gets old watching a congresswoman who just flew on a PRIVATE JET during the "Fighting Oligarchy" tour -- at a reported $15,000 an hour to charter, by the way -- lecture the rest of us about workers not getting what they are owed. Let us talk about ACTUAL theft for a moment, since you brought it up. The Social Security system has collected mandatory payroll taxes from American workers for decades and operates exactly like what you would call a Ponzi scheme if a private citizen ran it -- early investors paid by later ones, with no actual reserve, and a trust fund that holds nothing but IOUs from the Treasury. But that is apparently the GOOD kind of theft. Then there is the program called SUPPLEMENTAL Nutrition Assistance. You know what the S stands for? I teach anatomy for a living, so I am genuinely fascinated by the data. The USDA -- not a conservative think tank, the USDA itself, the agency that runs the program -- found that 39% of adult SNAP recipients are obese. Women enrolled in SNAP? 52% obese, compared to 40% for low-income women who never enrolled. And the single largest category of SNAP purchases? Sugary drinks. Nine billion dollars a year in Mountain Dew and energy drinks from a program called SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE. I own a dog. My vet prescribes a specific diet for her. If I feed her that diet AND let her vacuum up table scraps and Milk Bones all day, and she gets fat and diabetic and goes blind and needs daily insulin shots, would I be right to blame the vet? That is what is happening here. The "supplemental" in SNAP stopped being supplemental a long time ago. That is not the vet's fault -- and it is not the taxpayer's fault either. But someone keeps signing the checks. And you want to talk about "unearned wealth?" Every single dollar I spend to feed my family of six -- and I do it on a teacher's salary for about $520 a month by shopping at Aldi and cooking real food -- is a dollar I EARNED. Every dollar a business owner risks to start a company, hire people, buy equipment, and make payroll while absorbing 100% of the risk when things go wrong, is a dollar that was EARNED. The CEO takes the loss when the company fails. The employee finds a new job. But apparently Quinn's Second Law applies here: what liberals accuse conservatives of doing is exactly what they are actually doing. You cannot earn a billion dollars? Meanwhile, @AOC has enjoyed book deals, speaking fees, and congressional salary while cosplaying as the exploited working class. If the elevator in your logic went all the way to the top floor, you might notice the irony. It does not. Quinn's Twenty-Fifth Law also applies rather neatly: liberals are extraordinarily gifted at giving away other people's money. It requires zero courage, zero sacrifice, and zero skin in the game to stand at a podium and declare that someone else's success was not really earned. I keep seeing Democrats say "TAX THE RICH" when they ARE rich -- not only knowing the loopholes but writing them into law for their own use. I have zero interest in hearing about wealth inequality from someone who cannot bring themselves to fly commercial. Lead by example. Pay DOUBLE what the IRS says you owe. File with nothing but the standard deduction. Not one itemized line. Then I will start listening. Until then, all foam, no beer. Because here is what the science teacher in me needs to point out: when your program designed to fight hunger produces an obesity epidemic, and your program designed to lift workers produces permanent dependency, and your program designed to guarantee retirement produces an unfunded liability -- at some point, Quinn's First Law is not a coincidence. Liberalism always produces the EXACT OPPOSITE of its stated intent. Always. If you want to talk about theft, @AOC, let us talk about the $9 billion in soda the NUTRITION program buys every year, the fraud waste and abuse happening in Ohio and Minnesota and most other states that DOGE keeps finding, and the forced confiscation of payroll taxes for a Social Security system that has about as much fiscal soundness as a screen door on a submarine. But I suspect you will not want that conversation. Because facts, as Jim Quinn noted, are the enemy of liberalism. @JoJoFromJerz @catturd2 @GuntherEagleman IF you agree: LIKE this post so the algorithm shows it to people who need to read it. SHARE this. COMMENT below -- do you think the S in SNAP still stands for "supplemental"? Tell me. And if you want MORE of this -- the data, the history, the science, the stories -- JOIN Bski's Classroom community on X or YouTube. But what do I know -- I am only a science teacher who actually reads the USDA's own data instead of blaming the vet while handing out Milk Bones. #MAGA #Veterans #Trump