Wal-Mart is donating $500K to food banks. They have 4,600 stores, so they're donating less than $110 per store.
They are seriously cheap fucks. Brookshire Grocery, which has about 200 stores, is donating half a million.
If you donated a load of groceries to a food bank, the chances are that you, proportionately, did more to help people needing food than did Wal-Mart.
Keep in mind that SNAP, the ACA and Medicare work also as subsidies to labor exploiters like Wal-Mart, which thereby don't need to pay a living wage to their workers.
Meanwhile, OpenAI, which is backed by billionaires and large tech giants, wants the government to back their loans, so they will have nothing at risk. (OpenAI lost about $12 billion last quarter.)
Sam Altman read the room and realized that asking for a few hundred billion in loan guarantees wasn't a good sell when tens of millions of Americans are going hungry, so he walked that back.
For now. Corporations and oligarchs always seem to want the government to guarantee their shit, while deriding those at the bottom of the economic pyramid. Socialism for the rich, same as it ever was.
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Its underfunded and over valued. When it pops the it will be an interesting
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Wal-Mart is offering a Thanksgiving meal package again this year and Trump is claiming it is proof that he has lowered food prices. However, in comparison to last year, the turkey is smaller, there are fewer items, the pre-made pie from last year is now ingredients to make it yourself, etc.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-irrefutable-thanksgiving-claim-hit-with-brutal-fact-check/ar-AA1PXbht?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=690de9cd122049b283ec8a8c0a04bf6b&ei=59
He's such a liar and conman.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yku2CXuKKiU
Ever worked at a food bank?
I have.
When the people (7 out of 10 or so) show up for their food in a year old Lexus, with a couple thousand dollars in gold around their necks and on their ears, each holding a $12 Starbucks, and the woman has a brand new set of nails, it kinda makes you believe that they could make better choices about where they spend their money so they won't need the Free Shit.
I have no doubt that there are many people who really depend on the food banks for their meals, but most of them also make really bad choices about where they spend their money. Poverty is often a choice.
I have and I've worked at an animal shelter. People do make bad choices. Some are grifters.
But making people go hungry to teach them a lesson sounds rather evil.
The milk of human kindness is strong in B. A real mensch.
Most of the people at Food Banks are folks that just can't seem to learn not to make bad choices, and IMO more than half spend their money on tattoos, designer stuff and other non essentials, then cry "Poverty".
Nearly all the women begging food have the latest fashion designer handbags and nails, but claim that without assistance their kids will starve. I have no objection to them getting free shit from charities, but when they make a lifestyle out of taking taxpayer provided funds forever, then yes, I object.
Stewart: Feel free to call me whatever you want, but unless, and until you pay 100% of your income, stop expecting people like me to pay for the folks you feel sorry for who simply can't or won't support themselves. As it is, I would expect that I pay more dollars towards helping others that you do.
A case in point:
https://twitchy.com/brettt/2025/11/08/cnn-commentator-says-the-shutdown-is-having-a-huge-impact-on-eyebrow-technicians-n2421427
B, I went through your link, and I can only find commenters (on a conservative website) linking SNAP and eyebrow technicians. At the end of the 13 second clip, the commentator actually says, "...she's not on SNAP." That is the only mention of SNAP in the clip.
I have included a link to the transcript of the segment in question (albeit a Rush Transcript, so it may not be perfectly accurate) that should put her comments in proper context. She is talking about the impact of the SHUTDOWN on eyebrow technicians, as well as uber drivers and restaurants.
https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/cnap/date/2025-11-06/segment/01
The segment that is pertinent to this conversation is about a third of the way down--right before they start discussing the Heritage Foundation, Kevin Roberts, Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes.
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According to B, we need to forget this charity shit because a tiny percentiage of the population takes advantage of them the wrong way. No word on the tax cuts to billionaires and high earners because they obviously made the right choices in life and shouldn’t have to subsidize the losers who should all die in the street because of their
To conservatives empathy is a taboo word, a forbidden thought and a sign of weakness. "If it isn't for me it's something I don't want to see."
Not wanting to brag but I just donated half of what a whole Walmart store does to just the local Boy Scout Food Bank Drive. The little Cub Scout had a heck of a time with all the nonperishable cans and boxes. And I'm my family's Mr. Frugal on as fixed income. But he was driven by his mom in a Cadillac XT5 so maybe that's what Mr. B was talking about.
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