All Welfare is Corporate Welfare

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This episode pulls back the curtain on one of the biggest lies in modern economics, that welfare helps the poor. In reality, every dollar that enters a government program eventually ends up in corporate hands. The rich use debt to buy assets and generate tax-free income. The poor use debt to survive and never escape it. From SNAP to Medicaid, the system recycles money upward through low wages, processed food, and pharmaceutical profits.

We’ll break down how this loop works: taxpayers fund assistance programs, benefits go to workers whose employers rely on those subsidies, and the corporations collecting those dollars raise prices and expand margins. The result is a permanent underclass and record profits at the top. Meanwhile, the country itself is buried under $37 trillion in debt with no lasting assets to show for it.

This isn’t a partisan issue, both parties have played their part. Welfare for people, bailouts for business, and “stimulus” for the system have all created the same outcome: dependency, not prosperity. In this episode, we’ll look at what real public investment could have been, smarter alternatives to modern welfare, and what ordinary people can still do to protect themselves and build independence while the system eats itself alive.

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First understand I am being pragmatic today, not a purist Anarcho Libertarian
Money always flows uphill
- Taxes
- Programs
- Corporations
- Investors
- Leverage
- Recycle
The rich use debt to buy assets and generate tax-free cash flow
The poor use debt for short-term survival, never ownership
SNAP cycle: taxes fund benefits
- Walmart workers qualify and Walmart has helpers to get new people on SNAP
- Walmart profits by selling food to the same employees
- Recipients buy junk food which makes them sicl
- Medicaid pays for resulting illness
- They buy drugs from the Walmart pharmacy
- The drug companies and medical system profits
Every major welfare dollar ends up in corporate hands
This is why $37 trillion in debt and no lasting national assets to show for it, literally nothing of lasting value
Government spending mirrors welfare: consumption, not investment, neo fascism, money is passed to corporate cronies
Some things we could of built with all the bail outs and stimulus programs
- Energy independence
- Durable manufacturing
- Education that teaches self-reliance
How comfortable poverty and barely stable middle class has produce 2 generations of simps and eternal children
Smarter safety nets
- Basic food distribution
- Guaranteed entry-level work
- Not lifetime dependency – hard time limits to any program
- Move to a consumption tax an stop taxing productivity and property (the only way to “tax the rich”)
What individuals can do
- Buy and own productive assets
- Stay out of all consumer debt
- Build local trade, and networks
- Avoid state reliance systems
One thing GenZ is right about “no one is coming to save us” we are a dying and rotted empire at the end of its cycle, every nation ever has eventually ended up in the same place if they attempted to govern beyond their own borders
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Scott

14 days ago

Best Effing episode in years.

Veronica

13 days ago

I worked for Malwart from 2000-08. They still have asst mgrs, a co mgr and a store mgr. Asst mgrs had to have X number of ‘coachings’ per year, so they would set an ‘associate’ up to fail, bring them in the office to strike terror into their hearts and then be done with it. If you had a coaching, you were not eligible for the better raise. I went back to college, despite my age, because I had to get out of that hellhole. Then my health tanked. Four classes from graduating.
I hope you’ll do an episode on how seniors (I am now almost 72) who have lost all they own to medical bills can survive. All of what you said in this episode is geared at much younger people.
I have listened to you since you were in the car. Fell off the wagon for a long while as my medical issues took over. Now the govt has me right where they want me. Living on only social security and dependent on govt health care, EBT and other assistance programs. Don’t ever say ‘oh that’ll never happen to me.’ Because it sure can.

Unless something has changed, WMT does not allow the employee discount to be used on food. The ‘associate’ (aka employee) is expected to use their EBT on food and the discount on the Chinese crap and junk that will break in X number of months and then you throw that away and buy another using your discount. The discount works ONLY on full price items. And you can only use it on ONE item, not everything in your cart. So the associate will buy a big item, like a TV, to feel they got ‘the most’ out of their discount. They are far more sinister than you think.

Last edited 13 days ago by Veronica

Ug. Oh thanks for all my bad memories of the WMT hellhole. Another thing they will do is prevent anyone from having a second job. They bully by saying “this is your primary job”. You will never EVER have the same hours week to week. There is no way to tell a second employer what your availability is. They hold you captive. I tell anyone planning to work there to consider it a stepping-stone job to get a little experience and move on to a better, more secure place where they will be valued and treated with respect.