Things are about to get real interesting real fast, unless Chuckie Schumer decides to give in before the shit hits the fan – but that may be exactly what they are shooting for – food riots.
But this SNAP and food stamp debacle is only the tip of the sphere, and once we look at our economy from a holistic perspective, we find a score or areas that indicate all is not well, at least not as President Trump would have us believe.
The truly conservative Republicans of yesteryear warned that socialism begins with good intentions and ends with bureaucratic authoritarian command, and they were right. If we don’t stop the American youths seeming love affair with communism. we may live to see the Sovietization of American capitalism, since it’s halfway there already. And despite the recent upheavals in our streets, it probably won’t be implemented by the Workers’ Party but more than likely by way of our nation’s populist managing markets.
America found and earned its prosperity on the whole, because the federal government did not own or guide the various industries. Men and women were able to build this modern economy initially precisely because the were free to trade, invest and fail whenever something didn’t offer enough to the consumers. Interventionist industrial policy betrays that legacy.
Trump can make all the deals with foreign governments that he wants, and while some people in America may benefit, most will not. Not so long as he and his minions are fiddling with major U.S. companies, such as MP Materials, U.S. Steel and Intel, in a manner that is completely contrary to capitalist principles, more aligned with ideas found in the Marxist-Maoist Communist ideology.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, essentially a Democrat himself, recently told CNBC that Washington will continue to “set price floors” and “forward buy” commodities “across a range of industries” to encourage more investments into American production and away from China.
I dare say that all the protestors raising hell about the possibility of missing their food stamps don’t share my free-market positions, or much of anything else for that matter. However, it’s not obvious to me how any administration that sets prices, owns companies and dictates production loves capitalism or free enterprise either.
And this is just one facet of our economy – an economy that has been made too complex by design, in order to benefit those behind the seats of power, too often to the harm of the good and decent poor and middle-income range Americans. ~ J.O.S.
Hang On to Your Asses… Uh… – Assets
“Don’t be fooled: The debt explosion is not driven by waste, fraud, or foreign aid. Nor is it the result of a lack of revenue. It’s the direct result of reckless promises to retirees, the cost of health care, and an unwillingness to pay bills honestly. For most of American history, debt fell when wars ended and peace returned. Since 1980, we’ve managed the opposite: peace without prudence and prosperity without restraint.” ~ Veronica De Rugy, George Gibbs Chair in Political Economy and Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University
The economic factors and dynamics in action today are vast and varied, within the public and private sector. All Americans want to enjoy the fruits of their own labor, and they seek to remain forever free, but half of our population wants to enjoy the fruits of whatever limited efforts they put forth in society plus the wealth others have accumulated through hard work and ingenuity. And, in a maddening state of affairs, more regularly, freedom loving, hardworking Americans witness even the GOP and Republican congressmen helping these Takers in their endeavors to acquire that which they have no right to take – other people’s wealth, during one of the roughest economic times we have all faced in decades.
Under President Trump, America sees a Republican Party that has abandoned conservatism and any notion or semblance of working towards a limited government or eradicating corporatism and economic fascism, to the extent that the U.S. government has become the major shareholder in several companies, a thing that is socialistic in any manner one wishes to cut it.
Please note that on August 22nd 2025, the U.S. government bought ten percent of Intel, one of America’s largest technology companies. For my money, this is virtually the same thing as socialism, which is the control of the means of production, and whenever the government has just become a major corporation’s largest shareholder, that’s a strong first step towards full blown socialism, no matter what semantic games naysayers may engage.
This is a step beyond the already massive subsidies the U.S. government still pumps into major corporations and agriculture, even a step beyond the regular bailouts miserable mismanaged corporations are handed at the expense of the hardworking American taxpayer.
If the recent Democrat Party led government shutdown has done anything, it has served to reveal just how thin the line is between the two parties today, as we recently heard Representative Marjorie Taylor-Greene (R-GA) bemoaning the fact that healthcare insurance was soon going to rise for millions of Americans. But, she and her ilk fail to understand, the cost isn’t really rising but merely going back to the previous rates before the Affordable Care Act enhanced subsidy extensions were passed as a temporary measure; these subsidies are set to expire at the end of 2025.
For her part, MGT is far too willing to go along with the Democrats and give in to their $1.5 trillion extortion which would essentially fund healthcare for millions of illegal aliens, with no true sense of right or wrong and how this is damaging for all America, holding our rule of law and the U.S. Constitution once again meaningless as a roll of toilet paper.
And, as the nation braces to see SNAP and food stamps stop on November 1st, Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) is just as bad. In his recent assessment of the situation, just as he has regularly done with other forms of obscene welfare, he romanticized the issue in an October 28th 2025 New York Times opinion editorial, where he called it a “grim milestone” and suggested Americans and the leaders of Congress consider the “widows and orphans” who make use of these benefits.
Hawley went further, stating:
“That is the day about forty-two million Americans will lose federal food assistance. Congress must not let that happen. America is a great and wealthy nation, and our most important wealth is our generosity of spirit.”
Generosity of spirit. Doesn’t that somehow imply something we do of our own free will? Such is not the case in having the government legislate it and then force citizens to pay up or else. Yes indeed, let’s all be generous and make certain that over forty million people are fed without having to use their own money.
Rather than asking the extremely important question of “why do we have 42 million people on SNAP and food stamps” – some say it’s 44 million – many Republicans are looking to expand benefits, And rather than repealing the ACA as they promised to do during Trump’s first term, we now find them trying to find more money in the government coffers to expand and extend the ACA.
Forty-two million, a bit over a tenth of America’s population, is an absurd number, nearly beyond one’s imagination, once one considers that the combined populations of New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago is roughly 15 million. Each of these people cannot possibly be so incapacitated or bereft of any capability to earn a living as to actually have a real need for help from the government. What has actually occurred here is that Democrats, aided by Republicans, just like MGT and Hawley throughout the years, have worked to expand welfare programs intended for people with the very lowest incomes to those in higher income brackets, steadily moving further up the economic rungs to service people who can still live pretty well without the government assistance.
This is precisely why we quite often witness people using EBT cards using $1000 iPhones and loading their groceries into their late model Toyota Sequoia and drive to their nice HUD subsidized three-bedroom apartment or house.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m all for helping the truly needy – The TRULY NEEDY – but not those who are gaming the system simply because they can, even though they are quite capable of working a job just like me and many millions of other hardworking Americans.
In a recent video on TikTok, a Welfare Queen with eight children, receiving $3000 monthly in food stamps, smugly and mockingly states:
“I have no income. So, obviously I’m going to get the full benefit amount. Does that make you mad, too? Does it make you mad that the government is helping me feed my children? Be mad. Stay mad. How else am I going to feed my kids? I don’t have a job.”
Understanding Food Stamps for Single Moms and Homelessness | TikTok
When one sees the video, one immediately realizes that despite her claims of having gone on a recent interview, she never has truly tried to work or get a job. She’s one of those who always has an excuse why things haven’t gone her way. My questions are why hasn’t she gone after those children’s father/fathers for child support and why hasn’t she held a job all the time it took to have those children? Why didn’t she keep her legs closed or get on birth control so she wouldn’t have more children than she could care for by herself?
Yes, I feel bad for the children. But she shouldn’t have been rewarded for running a baby mill in order to get government benefits and live as a ward of the state. If anything, her children should have been taken from her and placed in good homes with adoptive parents who were capable of providing for them and giving them a decent life.
And yes, it makes me angry to see so many lowdown, trifling, sorry-ass people just like her who had so little self-discipline and so little in the way of a sense of independence, responsibility or self-worth that they were fine with being kept like a herd animal for the entirety of their adult life – that they were fine with living as slaves to the state and raising their children to follow suit. Raising the future base for good little Democrat Commies unless someone breaks through to them in the their most formative years.
Here in the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee, the park rangers regularly warn tourists not to feed the bears, because they grow dependent on the handouts and start becoming unruly pests. Same can be said for the forever perpetual riders of the Welfare Gravy Train; they have to be weaned off of it, or they’ll never learn to take care of themselves.
As I write this [the afternoon of October 31st], two federal judges have just ruled that the Trump administration must use contingency funds for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), but the Trump administration has long been on the record stating it doesn’t have the authority to use contingency funds in this manner, during this Schumer Shutdown. President Trump and many other Republicans have told the Democrats – crying their crocodile tears over “the children” – that if they are really so concerned over SNAP, all they have to do is reopen the government.
Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture, was heard addressing the nation this morning [October 31st] on Fox News, as she stated:
“Democrats’ support for programs like SNAP is now reduced to cynical control over people’s lives. This last month has shown that the party who constantly says it puts people over politics, does the complete opposite.”
Aside from all of this, President Trump has come out and urged the Senate Republicans to kill the filibuster in order to resort to a 51 vote threshold in order to end this shutdown, which would be no better than instituting democracy as opposed to republican mechanisms, and it would serve as an even more dangerous tool in Democrat Communist hands once they regain power. This is sheer idiocy on Trumps part, as he and any other Republicans fail to understand that the filibuster protects the minority against the majority, regardless of which party is in control, and it is a most necessary thing, especially when considering any major piece of legislation.
With $38 TRILLION in national debt and $30 TRILLION in publicly held debt, we see both parties reluctant to do anything of any real substance to stop the out-of-control spending, or even slow it down, except when it’s something on the opposition party’s wish list and agenda.
Much of this current mess can be traced back to the point when the Democrats moved Social Security in the general fund and out of its trust status, and America has not seen any real reform of this entitlement and the programs it generated that have become largely untouchable. While 1983 did see some minor reforms occur, despite economic and societal changes that followed, Social Security has never been reformed. But the weight of inevitability is preparing to do the work for us, as it faces insolvency and the possibility of automatic benefit cuts of twenty percent or more by 2033, as the nation’s other debt-driver, Medicare and Medicaid both face similar fates. Medicaid has long surpassed anything it was ever intended to be, and what we have built in this country is a welfare state run on sheer madness by the mad.
In the meantime, Democrats love to scream about how debt wouldn’t be a problem if billionaires and the otherwise rich paid their fair share. Well, they do, and then some. Still, the numbers just don’t add up. No matter how many $2 trillion budget deficits the U.S. government runs or how many trillions of more dollars it prints, the spending remains unpaid for and the situation just gets worse. A nation cannot in any way, shape or form redistribute its way to equity for all its people; this is simply impossible and not living within reality, and it is forcing America to drown under the weight of the untenable, unsustainable, deeply flawed federal spending programs.
Taking – no, forcibly stealing – money from the Producers of America to give to the grifters and shiftless thieves and Takers of the country is not and never has been the answer for solving the poverty and homeless issues of our country. The thieves of Congress masquerade as altruists, as they do their damnedest to keep the gravy train running, and none are to be fully trusted in this regard. Even when they may be sincere, their so-called “solutions” tend to be both stupid and dangerous in that they crack the door ever wider to the monsters of socialism and communism, the likes of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, who just also happens to be an Islamofascist with terrorist ties.
It’s not a crime to be wealthy, and quite often, the wealthy have been the inventors and the drivers behind our capitalist system. We could take every last nickel and dime from them to give to “the less fortunate” and very soon, we would see them rise of their own initiative and intelligence to have again a fortune in their hands, while the poor recipients of their fortunes would squander it and soon be broke. It all comes down to priorities, sensibilities and one’s learned abilities and what one has done throughout one’s life to make one capable of doing more than just surviving or getting by.
But what is a crime is joining in flash mobs, a phenomenon that has grown in the urban areas of America, where participants rob and steal from large stores and shopping malls, often assaulting store managers and owners and anyone else who gets in their way. Someone has called for “a shoplifting spree” as a response to the cutoff of SNAP and food stamps.
Terrence Williams recently posted the following:
“EBT Food Stamp Avengers have officially called a nationwide ‘shop lifting spree’ on November 3rd at 6:30 PM sharp. They said, ‘We goin’ to Walmart. We rollin’ in deep. At 7:30 we walkin’ out with them buggies Full. They can’t catch all of us! One lady even said, ‘Bring yo cousins, aunties, baby daddies, and them kids, we need decoys!’ Another added, ‘This ain’t theft, it’s community redistribution!'” This is the so-called victims celebrating their victimhood.
This is the so-called victims celebrating their victimhood.
Today, Americans are experiencing an economy and a system of corporatism. whereby the wealth gap has grown to an exponentially mammoth proportion over the past five decades, and one that is now breeding a sense of hopelessness within the youth of the nation. One of the largest factors include the accumulative inflation that has accrued over the past three administrations, whereby housing has essentially been placed out of their reach for a time yet to be determined, and rather than cut off the spigot, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell sits poised to flood the markets with more cash, which is certain to yield even higher inflation.
On the other side of the reality coin, it must also be acknowledged that some of us do and have worked extremely hard and done quite well, but we are still slipping behind due to the nature of the beast held at the core of our current economic fascism, where winners and losers are still picked by the government under Republicans and Democrats alike. And not everyone has the wherewithal or means to risk funds on playing the stock markets, even if they were so inclined; and so, for now and possibly some good time into the future, the top ten percent rolls blissfully along taking the rising GDP as a marker to suggest America has a robust economy. This is a false and deceptive marker at best, and soaring stocks don’t translate to a better standard of life for the rest of us or suggest that life is good for the American people on the whole.
No matter how hard or smart one works, no matter how thrifty one is with one’s assets and resources, some economic roadblocks are very nearly impossible to surmount. The top ten percent are struggling with how to use A.I. to improve their corporations’ workflow, while the rest of America is working a second job and watching the costs of utilities, rent, childcare, healthcare and auto insurance and groceries rise so much, that they are left wondering which bills to pay this month.
Wealthy Americans are spending. Americans less fortunate are struggling.
The activist Federal Reserve is manipulating the U.S. currency in order to stay ahead of inflation. And to date, he’s doing a piss-poor job of it, especially as it is becoming apparent that the problem has become too severe to solve in the short term, as it has taken on a life of its own.
It’s almost as though Powell has now adopted a policy and an endgame of print or die, which is certain to see the nation’s economy do the latter.
If our so-called leaders within the U.S. federal government truly desire to close the massive income gap and lesson income inequality, they will get serious about balancing the budget. They must stop all the inflationary spending and the artificial bubbles that place money in the speculators’ pockets when they burst, usually forcing legislators to wriggle out of the conundrum by raising taxes and engaging in more redistribution of the wealth, just as America saw in 2008 with the “too big to fail” bullshit that allowed for massive bailouts of major corporations such as American International Group, Inc. They must stop the printing presses and trying to manipulate the tax code and simply cut, cut, cut spending. And most of all, government must get out of our pockets and let the American entrepreneurs, the self-employed skilled craftsmen and artisans, and independent small businesses operate without all the unnecessary rules and regulations that hamper them in a manner that favors big corporations and the current monopolies.
Hang on to your asses … EeeRrrr … assets, I mean.
The next three years promise to be a wild ride all the way around.
November 3, 2025
Justin O. Smith ~ Author
~ the Author ~
Justin O. Smith Has Lived in Tennessee Off and on Most of His Adult Life, and Graduated From Middle Tennessee State University in 1980, With a B.S. And a Double Major in International Relations and Cultural Geography – Minors in Military Science and English, for What Its Worth. His Real Education Started From That Point on. Smith Is a Frequent Contributor to the Family of Kettle Moraine Publications.
