Why Social Programs Matter.

The GOP Fears Social Equality, and wants slave labor

The GOP Holding on tight to their money.

There are currently 52.2 million Americans or 21.3 percent of the population that use some kind of public assistance, and Nearly 32 percent of SNAP households are home to at least one wage-earner, according to the most recent data on the program. According the Census Bureau In an average month, 39.2 percent of children received some type of means-tested benefit, compared with 16.6 percent of people age 18 to 64 and 12.6 percent of people 65 and older.

Social programs matter because it isn’t just the unemployed, or the uneducated, or the unmotivated. The majority of individuals that benefit from most social programs are children, the elderly and the disabled. However Social Programs like Medicaid, Food Stamps, and Social Security, are regular targets of the GOP during budget season, and election years.

A study by The Urban Institute, a non-partisan think tank, shows that SNAP is the sole food source for 8.5 million American families — and roughly 41 million people in America, up 5 million from 2008, are considered “food insecure” because they lack reliable access to affordable, nutritious food. However the most current proposal by the Trump Administration, would cut the Food Stamp program by 213 billion or 30 percent.

Since its high in 2011, the average monthly benefit per recipient has fallen from $133.85 each month to $125.79. So by cutting the program even further it would put people who are already food insecure in a dangerous predicament of having to choose between food and paying the rent, or the power bill.

This programs are important because without them, children would starve, the elderly would die, and the disabled would more than likely be homeless and have an even mortality rate.

The GOP hates these programs out of pure selfishness. They only want their money to go for the thing they want. If the GOP and the rich elite could go without having to pay any taxes, they would be doing it. There is evidence that in many cases many have found the loopholes to do just that, and that by using creative methods to hide money, to move it out of the US so it can’t be taxed.

They don’t want to pay the taxes that go to programs that would help the poor. Programs that would keep people from starving, that keep people from being homeless, that keep kids from being illiterate, and uneducated. It’s also well known that the GOP and the ultra rich think they are better than just about everyone. I know this because I grew up in the culture of the far right. I grew up listening to them talk disparagingly about the poor, about other cultures that were different from them. I grew up listening to the GOP talking about how the government should be as small as possible and that how the majority of our budget should be going to the military. I grew up listening to how it’s such a shame that christianity wasn’t our national religion.

The GOP fear social programs because it shines a light on the cruelty of their beliefs. The despise them because, it shows them just how hypocritical they are when they are bowing their heads on Sunday, and on Monday they are railing against the cost of Medicare, and Food Stamps, and how much it’s costing taxpayers for the Head Start Program. They fear it because it shows them just how horrible they are as a party and as people in general.