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Whether they keep 22 times that or a million times that why do you care?
Welfare was enacted in the Great Depression. And we never had riots and rebellions when it came to poor people. The fact of the matter is if a so called poor person in the US can afford to buy an Xbox then that person isnt starving. Nobody starves to death in America unless its on purpose.
Before the New Deal kicked in, during the depression there were many malnourished, destitute people, esp in the dust bowl.
"..Although few starved, hunger and malnutrition affected many...."
"As the devastation of the Great Depression spread throughout Detroit, increased lay-offs and financial instability among Ford Motor Company workers led to an atmosphere of despair that reached an apex in 1932. These workers were among those who marched to Ford’s River Rouge Industrial Complex in Dearborn, Michigan on March 7, 1932. This event, famously known as the Hunger March, was orchestrated by members of Detroit’s Unemployed Councils, who had been helping unemployed workers fight evictions and seek relief from charitable agencies.
A group of 3,000 to 5,000 unemployed workers and supporters marched from Detroit to the Rouge Complex intending to give Henry Ford a list of demands, including the right to organize, relief and medical care for laid off Ford workers, and an end to racial discrimination, among other things. However, as the marchers approached the Fort Street Bridge at the Detroit city limit, peaceful demonstration met violence as the Dearborn police threw tear gas into the crowd in an attempt to end the protest. The marchers fought back, pushing the police onto the grounds of the Rouge where Dearborn police and Ford Servicemen turned fire hoses against the unarmed marchers from inside the plant gates. After marchers injured Harry Bennett, head of Ford’s Service Department, hundreds of shots were fired into the crowd killing four marchers and leaving as many as 60 wounded (a fifth man died later). In the aftermath, an inquiry was held but no one was ever charged in the killings....."
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