I take offense to your comment because when I speak of sociotal constraints and issues that hold us back with my billionare friends , me millionaire pals generally do the same bitching and complaining as Jeff and Elon.... so I get it.
Accept maybe the right bitching about the poor because the govt has told them too for decades lmmfao...anyone blaming the poor for this country's financial issues is still a part of the shepherds flock, still repeating the narrative that the right has been spinning for decades, both parties place blame elsewhere whilst funneling taxpayer money to their friends and themselves, they've been doing it for generations in this country...WAKE THE FUCK UP PEOPLE
Im 'obese'. I dont take welfare. I work hard and am more like the people killing themselves after working bullshit jobs. 100% agreed with with Anthony.
whats your professional progression ovwr the past 5 to 10 years? everyone complains they work so hard for so long and get paid shit... well thats impossibke if you advance in your career which is almost IMPOSSIBLE to NOT do if you are working hard as you say. but yeah everyones stealing and blah blah blah
Do you also agree that "all this damn country does is kick them when they are down"? I mean c'mon thats NOT all this country does. And this is not a damn country. Its a great country.
classic identity politics. getting you too admit rich people are the problem but still hate your own fellow working class people. they want you to love being divided
Dwight’s sentiment about about CEOs making 400x what their typical worker isn’t wrong. But he IS wrong about the song and its message. It’s not making fun of obese people on welfare. It’s calling attention to a broken system that simultaneously neglects people who are actually starving, and yet incentivizes others to continue incredibly self-destructive behaviors as long as they remain dependent.
Exactly, both can be equally true. I think everyone freaked out when they heard that 300lb and don’t want to do the right thing and not condone shitty behavior. The song is pretty clearly not just calling out fat people. It is more about how this system is incentivizing not working or working less than you could to increase the amount of government aid that is available to a given person.
@@noprob364I've always hated the welfare system. It's such a giant trap. If you're on welfare they will punish any attempt at bettering yourself. Food stamps allowing things like soda and cookies and just junk. It's all so damn rigged against those who end up needing it. Then you have the ones gaming the system which is honestly quite infuriating. If we're gonna have a welfare system it needs to work. The goal shouldn't be a system that punishes those looking to become self sufficient, it should be a system that helps those in need get back on their feet. The current systems are bad jokes and the only ones finding it funny are those gaming the system and politicians.
The biggest problem is he is right. But we have all been conditioned to have people on welfare so much. But in reality it's the greed at the top that steal from us.
Their was a time recently in this place where people were ashamed of being on welfare even those who really deserved it. But today they think its their right to live off your money
Yeah but I think his point is that the insane greed at the top dwarfs whatever occurrence of welfare fraud there is. Why would you prioritize poor people getting food as a target over that?
@@oobieo Its not that people are on welfare. Its that some people are on welfare who are capable of working and just take advantage of the system. Hes not really saying people dont deserve to get it if they need it. but anyone now can have some sob story and they get food stamps. Or some from of assistance. instead of getting a job. I think some of you dont live in cities where theres people walking around all day long with no motivation or ambition sucking up resources. Not even trying to get a job and theyre capable. they just *dont wanna*.
Not sone people, most people on welfare are capable of working. And welfare is nothing but a program to reward people for their bad life choices. While the actual productive people are punished.
Then Rain should stop treating them as if they are. People aren’t criticizing him for his secondary point regarding the CEO’s, they’re criticizing him for the MAIN point of his tweet… AKA for taking a shot at Oliver Anthony. Because that was the main purpose of his tweet, to take a shot at him & his songs and he used CEO’s/Billionaires (easy targets) to do it. It’s cowardly behavior as well as transparent behavior
I would like to point out that not all people from the Cali are like Hollywood we struggle out while three hours away. They’re complaining about being underpaid down in Tinseltown
I think you people are missing the point here… which is that the titular “rich men north of Richmond” are the real problem whether they’re republican OR democrat, but then then next line is talking about right wing propaganda that fat lazy people on welfare are taking all your money.. No you had it right the first time, it’s the rich people north of Richmond doing that. It’s the military industrial complex and big pharma lobbying republicans AND democrat politicians to pass more spending for weapons and drugs while cutting their taxes and printing more money to fund it all so your dollar is worth less.. Like, you people claim to care about “elites” taking advantage of us but you’re also worried about fat short guys on welfare.. huh? Focus on the real issue you morons and WAKE UP
@KasperKasper-os9jb 👏👏👏🖕🔯🖕🇮🇱 The fact that 🔯 can masquerade as white people and at the same time teach black people it's all our fault is satanic. There was a reason why they wouldn't have slave auctions on saturday but they would hold then on Sunday. Not only that but look into how 98% of all slaves got here. 🖕🔯
So this is just an outright lie. 97% of welfare tax is on operationally cost and 85% of that 97% is to medical and health workers I also just don’t think you understand how difficult eating well is when you have no funds. Also remember this dude works a daddy’s company if I remember correctly smoked a ton of pot (proof he has disposable income) he was living a decent life before he blew up it’s just a right wing talking point
@@colinchristensen4398 Okay, so lets get to the facts. First, what I commented was his words, not mine. I did look up what SNAP alone reported as spent on "junk food", 23 billion dollars in 2023 was spent on junk foods, which to me does sound pretty excessive when that 23 billion could have been spent on healthy foods. There are currently discussions within the government to ban junk food purchases for the SNAP program because of such a high spending of tax dollars for junk foods, which I agree 100% with. On to Oliver's upbringing. His grandfather left him 90 acres of farm land. He was in fact poor. His wife and 2 children lived in a $750.00 trailer completely off grid since he could not afford electric and utilities on the property. He worked most of his adult life as a factory worker in a papermill, NOT owned by his family. I do not see a single report of him being a "pot smoker". Please link where you might have seen that. You are enlightened. You're welcome.
@@Chris-es3wf Can you blame the guy for being a good actor and getting paid? It's not like he made 14mil from just the office alone which was 9 seasons. 10 years of work.
I dont think you can blame him for being a good actor and getting paid. While actors at the bottom dont make much, thats not Rainn's fault. He wasnt even the highest paid actor on the Office. He was, in my opinion, paid more than necessary and I don't agree with it. We could very easily pay people at the bottom more, but its not usually the guy getting paid $100,000 an episode that's the issue. It's the Chiefs in charge at massive corporations and their share holders that are sucking up all the money and hording it.
@@tyler3201 They horde it, huh? Are you one of those who thinks "the rich" owe you something? Sounds like you have fallen for the class warfare bullshit pushed by the neo-Marxist Dems. On my days off from the firehouse, I worked as a remodeling contractor. Most of of the people I worked for were wealthy, and three were extremely wealthy. They all paid well, and on a few jobs, I got cash bonuses at the end. Besides, the top 1% pay 40+% of all federal income taxes. The bottom 47% pay ZERO.
The next song should be about native islanders losing their homeland to celebrity billionaires snatching up land at an alarming rate on those islands, and then said celebrity billionaires(cough Oprah cough)using natural disasters as fundraising gimmicks to help themselves to even more island real estate.
@@Catgat37for real. Even those better off in life with an understanding of hardship can’t sleep at night over these lyrics because they mean something. I think we all think of the rich men north of Richmond at night.
I would say a CEO who makes what you make in a year in one day is way more of a problem than your poor neighbors trying their best with their resources to gain anything...if you can't see the difference, I can see why we have such problems in the US. It's us vs us or us vs them...we choose which way it goes. If we dance to their tune then we deserve what we get.
@@michaelgrimes5588explain how someone who only takes, and never produces for society, is less of a threat to that society than someone who employs others? Demonizing every CEO because bad people exist in every profession is pretty damn ignorant.
I completely agree with you. Both are fucking the system and the only people paying taxes are hard working Americans. I am not a leftist nor am I a rightist. I feel both side are preposterous. They turn us against each other because they know that hatred turns you blind to reason.
@sunshui6114 this lady is just propaganda for the right. Not saying anything positive about the others. In general her speaking points and attitude is promoting the right wing flavor of propaganda.
He’s talking about them too. You can oppose the bourgeois decadence that CEOs and wealthy people exemplify while also opposing the parasitic nature of some people in low classes. Both are not equal but both are certainly not right
Private wealth is better than giving our private wealth to a centralized authority (Federal government) and allowing that centralized authoritarian government to redistribute our wealth to how they see fit!!(socialism). Capitalism is the consequence of Freedom!! Every tax is an invasion on our freedom, Capitalism!
Hey, I resent that remark! I was a theater kid and I have to enjoy it the old fashioned way. Working my ass off to pay for my incredibly expensive passion.
Yessir, I may be a fatass but I’m not gonna be one of these bums too lazy to work,living off other peoples tax dollars. Ima earn my money the right way. And try to lose some weight in the process.
I lived in government housing as a kid in the 90’s. We were desperately poor- could barely buy food- but soooooo many of our neighbors had amazing cars, the latest gadgets, new toys for their kids. They lived in government housing with us- and it was like we were the only poor people. So many of them worked the system and lived well off taxpayers money.
Yep. I grew up the cold, hungry version of poor. Worked my butt off to succeed. Then, as a mom, met so many women who offered to show me how to "game" the system. No thanks!
I grew up the same way. My mother still lives on assistance she can't work, she just can't, with her disabilities it's not going to happen. I know that there are people that work the system, but there's also a lot of people that genuinely need that welfare, and people tend to forget that. I do really like that song but I also agree that it should have hit more points about politicians and the millionaires that don't care, they're the ones that are really working the system they're the ones that are really letting you and I the working-class down. Edit: I just wanted to say that the basic income assistant where I live is only $600 a month. Disability you get $1,000
I grew up in a meth-ridden trailer park. The vast majority of people living there were on some form of welfare. If they weren’t spending their money on meth, it would be a brand new truck or a side by side parked in front of their dilapidated trailer…
Yup 💯👍 and I can tell you more then 67 million people stand with Oliver try the billions that's if everyone on the planet heard the song I can guarantee that
Actors should have no say. They are overpaid, often making someones annual salary for one episode, speaking lines someone else wrote.They don’t have a foot to stand on when talking about income comparisons.
Holy shit everything you just said was wrong. "They are overpaid, often making someones annual salary for one episode" Maybe a few A list actors are making millions an episode, but stop looking at the 1% and extrapolating that experience to apply to everyone. That's not how it works. Do you even know what an actor is? It's not just people on the front page of Disney+ or the box office, it's also every extra, every stunt double, every side character you've forgotten. Most of these actors don't make millions, or even hundreds of thousands. Most actors are struggling to live in our current economic climate. Also what? "speaking lines someone else wrote" This is so asinine it should automatically devalue your opinion on virtually anything.
@@mayonnaise9993you got paid how much to say this? Nothing, well read the room. Actors get paid so much, maybe if us workers got paid as much, we would not be in a damn cash crisis. Or better yet, pay the actor the same salary as us.
And the people who take advantage of welfare and the rich men north of Richmond who enable the CEOs and corporations and the welfare thieves by taxing the hell out of you and giving it to themselves and the people who vote for them. You missed the most crucial point of the song.
Well yes, but also the common man stealing from the common man. These realities are not mutually exclusive, both are true at the same time as is explained in the song.
While youre right who do you think they pay to continue to push their narrative? People like Raine. So yes its the ceos. but you do realize that theres thousands of millionaires in this country that think exactly like the ceos. Because when you get rich and a taste of power all you want is more money and more power. And most of them will step on the little guy to do it. The ceos and millionaires are the same person. just some have less money.
My sister work for Richmond welfare department. She told me a story oldest lady that had four or five kids. She was getting 800$ in food stamps. Plus 300 pers child up to 3 . The lady baby daddy was living in the government approved apartment. She was fined and kucked out if he doesn't move out. Then this one girl had 2 kids getting 650$ in stamps and $300 of the 2 kids she gets a job at a fast-food restaurants her first month . Was under the amout she got from Social Services. She had to report her income because of the job. They took away her $300 a month money for the kids and almost all the food stamps. Left her with $150 a month . The girl quit that day in the social service office. Right in front of my sister. And the girl got all her assistance that she had before working. the girl told my sister that she was living a lot better and not have to stress about going to work and be on time. Busting her butt for a little paycheck. Now she can do what ever she want .oh yeah her rent was being paid by social service so all she had to do was come out of her pocket with 15 to $20 a month and when she got her job she had to pay the full amount of the rent which was like maybe eight hundred bucks. Needless ti say i bet she still on welfare. That was in 2009.
It's weird that you are blaming that impiverished single mother rather than the system that forced her to decide between employment and putting food on her children's table. I really thought your story was going in a different direction until the very end there
Both are at fault. Stop giving people who are gaming the system a pass. If you really wanted out of welfate you would find a way Many people do. Many people game the system. She has kids. Many dont because they cant afford them. They could have...except they have to pay high taxes for her kids and herself. So they dont have kids
Something ironic about an actor who is worth millions, saying ceos and stuff haven’t earned their money, like dude your job is fucking easy, while the set builders, editors, and dozens of other positions work exponentially harder and get a fraction. Maybe he should share his next paycheque with the sound guys next time he’s in a shitty movie
ya he is. You guys are guilty of envy. Do you get mad at your neighbor when he gets a raise because it comes out of your bank account? It's not a zero sum economy. Pretend a CEO of a company that has 100k employees forfeits his entire $100 mil salary so everyone in the company can "make it". That would just be another 1k for everyone. What a joke. It's not the problem. The problem is a hyper inflated housing market, gas prices, supply chain issues, quiet quitting, woke agendas screwing up the bottom line in corporations, sky rocketing healthcare costs because government regs require it to be an oligopoly, wasteful unaccountable government spending increasing inflation and decreasing productivity, and a flood of new people coming across our border.... just to name a few.
No its not. There are more obese ppl than billionaires or millionaires. And in case u didnt know the money rich ppl spend basically holds up the entire economy. Hes speaking about politicians ,rich ppl lobbying not billionaires who just run a business. How did u get anything other than that?
People that don’t like that part are just completely oblivious that he’s not talking about the disabled people on welfare who literally cannot work. He’s talking about the people that abuse the system so they don’t have to work and staying overweight while there’s other people starving who literally CANT use the system that should be helping them.
@@bobbybobson19283 oh cry me a river. Are you really going to try and say the semantics take away from my overall statement. Who gives a shit. Obviously fat people can starve. You don’t magically lose 120lbs while not eating for over a week and starving to death. Didn’t realize I had to put a moron disclaimer in my comment. You’d rather nitpick than just agree with what is a POSITIVE comment 🤦🏽♂️
The Office guy isn’t right though. The overarching theme of the song is CLASS STRUGGLE, which is literally the basis of all left wing sociopolitics. For fuck sake the name of the song is “RICH men north of Richmond.” But there was one line about welfare misappropriation(which was also tied into a line about the issue of homelessness), so he simply dismissed the entirety of the song. It’s a completely absurd conclusion that’s typical of chronically online neoliberals.
Class struggle literally stems from "CEOs who make 400 times their average workers salary (up from 50 times 30 years ago) & corps that pay zero taxes & offshore tax shelters for billionaires" and politicians who facilitate those people and corporations. FYI, politicians typically are CEOs of some sort who made insane amounts of money off the backs of workers that the song references. So again, they are both right. @@charlesbrown4483
@@charlesbrown4483he is right though…billionaires own an absolute absurd amount of money that it’s almost difficult to comprehend, yet pay minimal taxes and are very greedy. In 2017, only 8 men owned more money than half the population in the world. That was when bill gates was the richest man with $80 billion, it’s far worse now
I jate when actors think they’re important and intelligent just because they’re on TV. You’re not on tv because you’re intelligent, you’re on it because you’re emotional.
Well said. It can be both, but extremists have the overwhelming need to flip out on someone not being called out TOO. Maybe another time folks. The next album is on the way.
The moral is that you are supposed to write and sing about what they want you to or else you'll get a call out. You have no artistic freedom whatsoever as far as they are concerned.
Actually Oliver Anthony said his song was about the corporate globalist welfare and poor welfare scammers. I'll take the perspective of Oliver Anthony verses stupid talking heads including rain and the woman who is just as pathetic
Bro he is literally not wrong though. The issue here isnt the poor taking advantage of programs. The issue is a lack of investment due to the rich hoarding. The vast, VAST majority of new wealth is recycled in financial markets and locked up by executives that doesn’t get reinvested back into the economy. Go back in history, the most prosperous peace times in America were when we taxed the rich the most. I’d like to not even have some lazy shareholder make millions of dollars for buying shares in the first place, but lets start small with fixing this system. Cant change it overnight
Dude. Look at what he actually wrote on Twitter. Not what she says he wrote. She is getting paid big bucks to make up stuff to distract people who don't know better. Rainn is right. Compare corporate welfare to actual welfare. Corporate welfare ballooned to over 48x more then welfare for regular people. People on welfare most of the time also have jobs. Why are these companies who have had record profits getting billions? Why is the sum total of all welfare given to normal people 48x less then the sum total given to already profitable giant corporations? The dude is criticizing things that don't matter.
@@yohancain5295 the majority of people on welfare are people who don’t need it and the majority of people who need it don’t qualify. There are rich people on welfare. I would know. I’m related to some. Ignoring problems because you don’t like how they sound doesn’t make them disappear.
I was at “Sprouts” grocery store yesterday…. I can only afford like 2 things from them. They are asininely over priced! I got 8oz of candy for $12. As I’m in line to pay for my 4 things 3 boxers of fruit roll ups and one $12 candy… the lady in front of me had a CART FULL of amazing food! I was livid when I realized 90% was paid by welfare and her 10% was all her booze! I was all WTF?!?!?! So I asked the checkout girl, she said welfare alone is keeping this store open!!!! So yeah, Oliver Anthony has a valid point here! Why are we funding good that even WE CAN NOT afford?!
People need to realize that all the welfare programs combined only account for 2%-5% of government spending. I am more concerned with the other 95% of government spending personally.
That isn't true, not in the slightest. The US Government has two budgets, the Mandatory and the Discretionary budget. The Mandatory budget encompasses almost all of what we call welfare, and it makes up a wopping 60% of the budget most years, add in a +/- 5% for variance. It includes SNAP, and Social Security, which are the two largest programs in the total budget. It includes several other forms of welfare as well. The Discretionary budget makes up the remainder. That is everything from the Departments of Education, Energy, Defense, State, Agriculture... The list goes on. Welfare is not a bad idea if it is being used on people who fix their situation, who grow, and become net contributors. Sadly, going on demographic studies, that is simply not the case. Most people who use welfare will never become a net contributor, not even in a single tax year!
That's not true at all. It's much higher percentage than that. But even if it were true, welfare is still a problem because of the way it is designed. It incentivizes people to make less because if they make more they get less benefits and it makes single moms to stay single. I have seen these results first hand from single moms turning down pay raises and relationships because they didn't want to want to ruin their benefits. Of course, when that happens, they also have less incentive to work hard and grow their career and live a fulfilling life.
Yeah i knew people were gonna say "oh well he doesnt care about this other thing he didnt mention?" Its like a song can only be so long wed be here for weeks if you wanted a comprehensive list. L take from rainn for sure
He’s not right though. The overarching theme of the song is CLASS STRUGGLE, literally the basis of all left wing sociopolitics. The one topic of the song he apparently takes issue with, about welfare misappropriation, is tied into the line before it about homeless people starving in the streets… It’s a completely brain dead take. The only explanation for someone disliking the subject matter of the song is because they heard a country voice. And in their peanut head, country=redneck=republican=evil=enemy.
He’s a rich person himself, I’m tired of all these rich people crying about rich people not paying their taxes and talking like they’re part of the middle/ working class. So if he’s complaining about rich people not paying their taxes he’s either silently admitting that he doesn’t pay his taxes himself or that the whole rich people don’t pay their taxes thing is a load of horseshit. I mean r there rich people who do that, yes, but overall most of them do pay their taxes.
If I wrote a song, I’d sing about how rich people want me to sing about a certain group of people instead of allowing me the freedom to sing about who I wanna sing about😂
@@knightfox4121his song coverd, corrupt politions, you wanna know who makes the laws that allow billionaires to scam and cheat the system? Those same corrupt politicians......hes calling them out and everyone eles in power who uses it to shit on the average person.......catching on yet???
@@knightfox4121 No it’s actually completely brain dead. The overarching theme of the song is CLASS STRUGGLE, literally the basis of all left wing sociopolitics. The one line you, rain, and all other neoliberals take issue with about welfare misappropriation, is tied into the line before it about how we have homeless people starving in the streets. Just say you hate the song because he has a country accent and in your mind “country = redneck = republican = enemy” and move along.
I’ve worked manufacturing, and warehouse for a lot of my life and this song simply just tells the truth about so many jobs, and what it’s like living low class
@@Lambspascuant Open browser, pick your search engine of choice, type in "us federal spending" and first link(at least with DDG) should be to US Department of the Treasury site, that has rather good breakdown of US federal spendings. This site also has a few links to even more detailed breakdowns.
@@idiotshittiot My source is US Department of the Treasury. Social Security - 21%(1.12T) Health - 14%(741B) Income Security - 13%(666B) National Defense - 13%(666B) Medicare - 13%(657B) Net Interests - 11%(561B) Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services - 5%(286B) Veterans Benefits and Services - 4%(233B) Transportation - 2%(100B) Community and Regional Development - 1%(77B) Other - 4%(192B) Social Security + Health + Income Security + Medicate + Social Services + Veterans Benefits and Services = Social Welfare. Technically i could even add Net Interests here, as most of this debt has been acquired by giving free shit to parasites. This is why there is this huge debt. "Social welfare is a broad and imprecise term that refers to different things depending on context. Strictly speaking, when used with the definite article, the term refers to the overall well-being of the entire society, which could be based on such factors as standard of living, access to essential social services, quality of the environment and exposure to crime. In most general usage however, used without an article, it refers to a governmental system designed to assist and improve the well-being of those sectors of society most in need. These include those living below the poverty line, the elderly/retired, sick/permanently injured, unemployed, and those with new dependents (e.g., young mothers)."
Wilson's sittin' high & might on the millions he's earned from being fictional characters in fictional shows & movies. When will they ever get it? We don't care what Hollyweird says. We'll make up our own mind liberal, thank you very much. Meanwhile, Raiin could stand to lose a few pounds.
Fortunately, im not struggling and have stepped up to middle class, but the amount of sacrifices I've made and nearly died for won't let me forget where i came from. Anthony's message rings true, and the vast majority of this country knows that greed has ruined us. This country is imploding, and the 1% is riding this chaos out till there is nothing left because as far as they are concerned, when crap hits the fan, they can flee to there vacation home in any country and made sure we are so divided that we will be to busy fighting each other to go after the true tyrants who created this mess
Ok lived in NY state for almost 2 decades and I'll give you an insight into how bad the welfare system is there....there are 4th and 5th generations welfare recipients....the state pays rent utilities food medical dental vision prescription and gives them a monthly check. I paid over 12,000 a year in property taxes alone and once went to the store got a can of tuna and stood and watched as the lady in front of me had an entire conveyor belt of steaks rung up then paid with a benefits card.....I just looked at the can of tuna and thought its nice to know that my taxes are paying for someone else to eat better than me.
Rainn Wilson has donated over 18 million dollars to charity over the course of his career, I would say that's pretty generous for Richmond north of Richmond
They’re both correct. People should not be abusing welfare, corporations should not be abusing workers and exploiting them, whilst avoiding paying their taxes.
I dont care that a mother is able to afford junk food for her and her family.. The damage 1 billionaire does is WAY MORE than hundreds, thousands of people who "game the system". I agree with Mr. Wilson on this one.
You're absolutely wrong. Those billionaires actually produce things. They also provide jobs that are not taxpayer funded. Welfare recipients contribute nothing at all. And it's millions of peopke, not hundreds or thousands. Also those billionaires already pay the majority of taxes in this country.
Welfare causes more harm than it does do good, there are way too many leeches in welfare who can’t get out of it or refuse to get out of it, in the modern Western world or at least these in America poor people are obese because they are the ones and large Who are eating cheapest and most unhealthy foods provided and approved by the government.
Put some of the welfare taxes into schools! People are refusing to pass levies in my state because it adds a little bit to their taxes! Our highschool is literally falling apart (we had a chunk of rotten drywall fall off of the wall), but they won’t vote to pass basic maintenance levies! Put some of that wasted money into maintaining the condition and improving the safety in our schools!
Millionaires aren’t the ones to blame for playing less tax it’s the government that writes the codes that let them do it. If I was rich and had an option to not pay why wouldn’t I do it
The pay is up from 30 years ago only because of inflation. Everyone is actually making alot less, not to mention when minimal wage goes up everyone just doubles the price of everything so you can never get ahead.
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Joe Rogan nailed it when he said there is nothing funnier than listening to millionaires b*tch about billionaires.
Thank you 😂😅😢
I take offense to your comment because when I speak of sociotal constraints and issues that hold us back with my billionare friends , me millionaire pals generally do the same bitching and complaining as Jeff and Elon.... so I get it.
Isn't that a big part of Joe Rogan's own show? I know he does seem to think himself a comedian.
Accept maybe the right bitching about the poor because the govt has told them too for decades lmmfao...anyone blaming the poor for this country's financial issues is still a part of the shepherds flock, still repeating the narrative that the right has been spinning for decades, both parties place blame elsewhere whilst funneling taxpayer money to their friends and themselves, they've been doing it for generations in this country...WAKE THE FUCK UP PEOPLE
Millionaires: 'Look over there! They're taking your money!'
Meanwhile they 🏃🏻💰 🤡
Well.. he’s a great example of a rich man north of Richmond, so his opinion doesn’t really matter.
So is Trump?
-COMANCHE NATION
😂👍
No, north of Richmond is DC, where the politicos are.
@@geraldbrienza4474 and the people who cozy up with those people. Hollywood and DC are heavily linked.
The songs about him. That’s why
So, a millionaire is dismissing the entire message and invalidating the struggle of those living in poverty and the working class. SHOCKER!
That's not what he said. Are you stupid?
True. Typical for a democrat. They never address the issue, only redirect.
Im 'obese'. I dont take welfare. I work hard and am more like the people killing themselves after working bullshit jobs. 100% agreed with with Anthony.
whats your professional progression ovwr the past 5 to 10 years? everyone complains they work so hard for so long and get paid shit... well thats impossibke if you advance in your career which is almost IMPOSSIBLE to NOT do if you are working hard as you say. but yeah everyones stealing and blah blah blah
I know plenty that never make it past foreman. Plenty hard of a worker but don't have what is needed to move past @@grimendancehall
@@grimendancehalldefinitely not if you have a decent house to pay and 3 kids plus the jobs you work isn’t good paying
Do you also agree that "all this damn country does is kick them when they are down"?
I mean c'mon thats NOT all this country does. And this is not a damn country. Its a great country.
@@freebee8221He is saying it in a sense of anger over all the policies destroying our country
I'm so tired of people who think they're more important than they really are
It's cause he's not people like me or people like you
classic identity politics. getting you too admit rich people are the problem but still hate your own fellow working class people. they want you to love being divided
There's a lot more people like you eating fudge rounds and are fat.
He won't understand
Ha. Bruh.
@@MorganNagrom-tc2ou "what is your BMI?" - Jesus Christ
Dwight’s sentiment about about CEOs making 400x what their typical worker isn’t wrong. But he IS wrong about the song and its message. It’s not making fun of obese people on welfare. It’s calling attention to a broken system that simultaneously neglects people who are actually starving, and yet incentivizes others to continue incredibly self-destructive behaviors as long as they remain dependent.
Basically the lower class is misunderstood and they feel forgotten.
Very masterfully said. You could definitely be a book editor or public relations manager.
Exactly, both can be equally true. I think everyone freaked out when they heard that 300lb and don’t want to do the right thing and not condone shitty behavior. The song is pretty clearly not just calling out fat people. It is more about how this system is incentivizing not working or working less than you could to increase the amount of government aid that is available to a given person.
Yep, but this dummy making the video is too caught up in reactionary dichotomies to have a nuanced and accurate take.
@@noprob364I've always hated the welfare system. It's such a giant trap. If you're on welfare they will punish any attempt at bettering yourself. Food stamps allowing things like soda and cookies and just junk. It's all so damn rigged against those who end up needing it. Then you have the ones gaming the system which is honestly quite infuriating.
If we're gonna have a welfare system it needs to work. The goal shouldn't be a system that punishes those looking to become self sufficient, it should be a system that helps those in need get back on their feet. The current systems are bad jokes and the only ones finding it funny are those gaming the system and politicians.
I wish celebrities didn’t do social media lol. I can’t stand any of the people I thought I liked. 😂
Whoever came up with that phrase "never meet your heroes" was a wise man
Like Trump
The biggest problem is he is right. But we have all been conditioned to have people on welfare so much. But in reality it's the greed at the top that steal from us.
Ikr!!? I used to love him in the office.
@@bcbphilosophyyour TDS is acting up, unlike Biden trump actually helped the working class & didn’t cost us an extra 1100 every year
Their was a time recently in this place where people were ashamed of being on welfare even those who really deserved it. But today they think its their right to live off your money
I would rather Rain Wilson be like Dwight than himself
So true
What Rainn Wilson said was true and Oliver Anthony's line was also correct. The two concepts aren't mutually exclusive.
Yeah but I think his point is that the insane greed at the top dwarfs whatever occurrence of welfare fraud there is. Why would you prioritize poor people getting food as a target over that?
@@oobieo Its not that people are on welfare. Its that some people are on welfare who are capable of working and just take advantage of the system. Hes not really saying people dont deserve to get it if they need it. but anyone now can have some sob story and they get food stamps. Or some from of assistance. instead of getting a job. I think some of you dont live in cities where theres people walking around all day long with no motivation or ambition sucking up resources. Not even trying to get a job and theyre capable. they just *dont wanna*.
Not sone people, most people on welfare are capable of working. And welfare is nothing but a program to reward people for their bad life choices. While the actual productive people are punished.
Then Rain should stop treating them as if they are. People aren’t criticizing him for his secondary point regarding the CEO’s, they’re criticizing him for the MAIN point of his tweet… AKA for taking a shot at Oliver Anthony. Because that was the main purpose of his tweet, to take a shot at him & his songs and he used CEO’s/Billionaires (easy targets) to do it. It’s cowardly behavior as well as transparent behavior
Typical rich man west of Richmond thinking.
*North but yes sir
@@caseyjosleyn169 I think he’s talking about the actors that live in LA, though I could be wrong
I would like to point out that not all people from the Cali are like Hollywood we struggle out while three hours away. They’re complaining about being underpaid down in Tinseltown
@@amysteele6540you got it!
I think you people are missing the point here… which is that the titular “rich men north of Richmond” are the real problem whether they’re republican OR democrat, but then then next line is talking about right wing propaganda that fat lazy people on welfare are taking all your money..
No you had it right the first time, it’s the rich people north of Richmond doing that. It’s the military industrial complex and big pharma lobbying republicans AND democrat politicians to pass more spending for weapons and drugs while cutting their taxes and printing more money to fund it all so your dollar is worth less..
Like, you people claim to care about “elites” taking advantage of us but you’re also worried about fat short guys on welfare.. huh? Focus on the real issue you morons and WAKE UP
He hates it because he’s one of the rich men
His 🔯 handlers tell him what to say he could careless tbh
"couldn't care less" not could care less. youre saying the fcuking opposite of what youre intending to@@KasperKasper-os9jb
@KasperKasper-os9jb 👏👏👏🖕🔯🖕🇮🇱 The fact that 🔯 can masquerade as white people and at the same time teach black people it's all our fault is satanic. There was a reason why they wouldn't have slave auctions on saturday but they would hold then on Sunday. Not only that but look into how 98% of all slaves got here. 🖕🔯
Oliver put that line in the song because a recent study showed 80% of welfare money spent was spent on "snacks".
So this is just an outright lie. 97% of welfare tax is on operationally cost and 85% of that 97% is to medical and health workers I also just don’t think you understand how difficult eating well is when you have no funds. Also remember this dude works a daddy’s company if I remember correctly smoked a ton of pot (proof he has disposable income) he was living a decent life before he blew up it’s just a right wing talking point
@@colinchristensen4398 Okay, so lets get to the facts. First, what I commented was his words, not mine. I did look up what SNAP alone reported as spent on "junk food", 23 billion dollars in 2023 was spent on junk foods, which to me does sound pretty excessive when that 23 billion could have been spent on healthy foods. There are currently discussions within the government to ban junk food purchases for the SNAP program because of such a high spending of tax dollars for junk foods, which I agree 100% with.
On to Oliver's upbringing. His grandfather left him 90 acres of farm land. He was in fact poor. His wife and 2 children lived in a $750.00 trailer completely off grid since he could not afford electric and utilities on the property. He worked most of his adult life as a factory worker in a papermill, NOT owned by his family. I do not see a single report of him being a "pot smoker". Please link where you might have seen that.
You are enlightened. You're welcome.
@@colinchristensen4398 Doubt it
@@alien0gamer139😂it's proven facts
@@colinchristensen4398weed is not expensive, depending on where you live it’s cheaper then milk.
Multi-millionaires complaining about billionaires. Gotta love it.
Poor and middle class people defending billionaires. Gotta love it
westhoodqualzini7884- < Random internetidiot defending millionaire actors. Gotta love that!
The only thing funnier is broke people blasting millionaires and defending billionaires.
Rainn. Makes CEO levels of pay compared to actors at the bottom
Frankly no he doesn’t at all. 14m is very achievable 300m-300b. Not so much.
@@oneshotrobb727299% of actors don't make squat... so yeah, he's CEO level successful in the acting world. Good grief Bobbie
@@Chris-es3wf Can you blame the guy for being a good actor and getting paid? It's not like he made 14mil from just the office alone which was 9 seasons. 10 years of work.
I dont think you can blame him for being a good actor and getting paid. While actors at the bottom dont make much, thats not Rainn's fault. He wasnt even the highest paid actor on the Office. He was, in my opinion, paid more than necessary and I don't agree with it. We could very easily pay people at the bottom more, but its not usually the guy getting paid $100,000 an episode that's the issue. It's the Chiefs in charge at massive corporations and their share holders that are sucking up all the money and hording it.
@@tyler3201 They horde it, huh? Are you one of those who thinks "the rich" owe you something? Sounds like you have fallen for the class warfare bullshit pushed by the neo-Marxist Dems.
On my days off from the firehouse, I worked as a remodeling contractor. Most of of the people I worked for were wealthy, and three were extremely wealthy. They all paid well, and on a few jobs, I got cash bonuses at the end.
Besides, the top 1% pay 40+% of all federal income taxes. The bottom 47% pay ZERO.
Rainn just mad about that minors on a island somewhere line.
The next song should be about native islanders losing their homeland to celebrity billionaires snatching up land at an alarming rate on those islands, and then said celebrity billionaires(cough Oprah cough)using natural disasters as fundraising gimmicks to help themselves to even more island real estate.
I feel everything you are saying
If you don't personally identify with this song you're part of the problem
You don't even have to identify. If this doesn't stir you up emotionally, there is something wrong with you.
@@Catgat37for real. Even those better off in life with an understanding of hardship can’t sleep at night over these lyrics because they mean something.
I think we all think of the rich men north of Richmond at night.
Yeah, the song's been stuck in my head every day since I first heard it. Sums up the corruption of our system very succinctly.
*not including children
I don't identify with it because I'm not gay.
"He's rich so that invalidates his arguement" is all you had to say
nothing funnier than listening to millionaires b*tch about billionaires.
But like why bc they can? Or like wtf
Imagine being a millionaire telling a working man how a working man should think lmao
They both got a damn point. The CEOs are no better than the others who fuck the system and the hard workers.
The CEO's are a symptom of a much larger problem, they are taking advantage of what the system has allowed
I would say a CEO who makes what you make in a year in one day is way more of a problem than your poor neighbors trying their best with their resources to gain anything...if you can't see the difference, I can see why we have such problems in the US.
It's us vs us or us vs them...we choose which way it goes.
If we dance to their tune then we deserve what we get.
@@michaelgrimes5588explain how someone who only takes, and never produces for society, is less of a threat to that society than someone who employs others? Demonizing every CEO because bad people exist in every profession is pretty damn ignorant.
I completely agree with you. Both are fucking the system and the only people paying taxes are hard working Americans. I am not a leftist nor am I a rightist. I feel both side are preposterous. They turn us against each other because they know that hatred turns you blind to reason.
@@andrewjung6987who’s stealing more?
Nothing funnier than a millionaire complaining about a billionaire
He wasn't a millionaire when he wrote this...
@@yourface3154 my comment refers to Rainn…
rain is a worker not an owner or ceo
@brandonborgerding182 And millionaire. Maybe stfu before you say something as stupid as the first thing u said
The only thing funnier is broke people blasting millionaires and defending billionaires.
He ain't wrong about the ceo's though.
Literally in the song title dude. Rich men North of richmond is both about rich dudes and those that suck off taxpayer dollars.
Why would I trust a corrupt government with more money……
@sunshui6114 this lady is just propaganda for the right. Not saying anything positive about the others. In general her speaking points and attitude is promoting the right wing flavor of propaganda.
He’s talking about them too. You can oppose the bourgeois decadence that CEOs and wealthy people exemplify while also opposing the parasitic nature of some people in low classes. Both are not equal but both are certainly not right
Private wealth is better than giving our private wealth to a centralized authority (Federal government) and allowing that centralized authoritarian government to redistribute our wealth to how they see fit!!(socialism). Capitalism is the consequence of Freedom!! Every tax is an invasion on our freedom, Capitalism!
Calling out welfare abuse and corporate greed aren't mutually exclusive. One can be against both.
Amazing how the rich men always have something to say.
Theatre kids really dont know what the real world is like
Hey, I resent that remark! I was a theater kid and I have to enjoy it the old fashioned way.
Working my ass off to pay for my incredibly expensive passion.
I'm a fatass, but at least I have the deceny to work 10 hours a day and earn my stuff
❤
Yessir, I may be a fatass but I’m not gonna be one of these bums too lazy to work,living off other peoples tax dollars. Ima earn my money the right way. And try to lose some weight in the process.
You only get judged from the likes of me if you expect me to pay for it. Other than that, we are all brothers who makes different choices.
It you buy your own fudge rounds, you get a pass
@@zaproodas9626 🎟️ here’s my pass bro.
I lived in government housing as a kid in the 90’s. We were desperately poor- could barely buy food- but soooooo many of our neighbors had amazing cars, the latest gadgets, new toys for their kids. They lived in government housing with us- and it was like we were the only poor people. So many of them worked the system and lived well off taxpayers money.
It’s really sad. There’s enough money for everyone. But for a number of us, there’s never enough money for just them.
Yep. I grew up the cold, hungry version of poor. Worked my butt off to succeed. Then, as a mom, met so many women who offered to show me how to "game" the system. No thanks!
I grew up the same way. My mother still lives on assistance she can't work, she just can't, with her disabilities it's not going to happen. I know that there are people that work the system, but there's also a lot of people that genuinely need that welfare, and people tend to forget that. I do really like that song but I also agree that it should have hit more points about politicians and the millionaires that don't care, they're the ones that are really working the system they're the ones that are really letting you and I the working-class down.
Edit: I just wanted to say that the basic income assistant where I live is only $600 a month. Disability you get $1,000
I grew up in a meth-ridden trailer park. The vast majority of people living there were on some form of welfare. If they weren’t spending their money on meth, it would be a brand new truck or a side by side parked in front of their dilapidated trailer…
They probably didn't. Those sound like people trapped in poverty by financial illiteracy.
When someone with 14 mil get offended by that song you know it’s working
I think the 67 million views in a month says that more of us are standing with Oliver Anthony.
Yup 💯👍
Yup 💯👍 and I can tell you more then 67 million people stand with Oliver try the billions that's if everyone on the planet heard the song I can guarantee that
Dwight was the idiot of the show if I remember correctly.
Not much different from real life I guess
So he isnt acting then? He paid for nothing. Someone get him a sack of fudgerounds.
Actually I disagree, Dwight was a working man that used his hands and never took anything for free. Dwight is who the song is about in a way.
@@williampoole1742 like when he bought the office building and started spliting the toilet paper sheets?
Hes just staying in character lol!
Actors should have no say. They are overpaid, often making someones annual salary for one episode, speaking lines someone else wrote.They don’t have a foot to stand on when talking about income comparisons.
Holy shit everything you just said was wrong.
"They are overpaid, often making someones annual salary for one episode" Maybe a few A list actors are making millions an episode, but stop looking at the 1% and extrapolating that experience to apply to everyone. That's not how it works. Do you even know what an actor is? It's not just people on the front page of Disney+ or the box office, it's also every extra, every stunt double, every side character you've forgotten. Most of these actors don't make millions, or even hundreds of thousands. Most actors are struggling to live in our current economic climate.
Also what? "speaking lines someone else wrote" This is so asinine it should automatically devalue your opinion on virtually anything.
@@philipsmashmouth8782That wasn’t a swing and a miss. They were 100% correct. Just because you disagree doesn’t mean it’s wrong.
@@mayonnaise9993you got paid how much to say this? Nothing, well read the room. Actors get paid so much, maybe if us workers got paid as much, we would not be in a damn cash crisis. Or better yet, pay the actor the same salary as us.
@@mayonnaise9993🤓
@@mayonnaise9993lmao easiest job ever. I do not care what you have to say
Dont need a rich man telling me how we are supposed to think
We???😂😂😂 buddy think for YOU! Think for yourself
Uh, he’s right. I can’t tell if you’re being deliberately obtuse or not.
Both people are right. The song IS about the rich.
Welfare is a system to enslave the poor to the system the rich created.
We really didn’t ask the opinion of the rich.
The gluttons are the CEOs and the corporations.
And the people who take advantage of welfare and the rich men north of Richmond who enable the CEOs and corporations and the welfare thieves by taxing the hell out of you and giving it to themselves and the people who vote for them. You missed the most crucial point of the song.
Well yes, but also the common man stealing from the common man. These realities are not mutually exclusive, both are true at the same time as is explained in the song.
While youre right who do you think they pay to continue to push their narrative? People like Raine. So yes its the ceos. but you do realize that theres thousands of millionaires in this country that think exactly like the ceos. Because when you get rich and a taste of power all you want is more money and more power. And most of them will step on the little guy to do it. The ceos and millionaires are the same person. just some have less money.
He’s part of the elite class, so he has a right to be offended.
My sister work for Richmond welfare department. She told me a story oldest lady that had four or five kids.
She was getting 800$ in food stamps. Plus 300 pers child up to 3 . The lady baby daddy was living in the government approved apartment. She was fined and kucked out if he doesn't move out.
Then this one girl had 2 kids getting 650$ in stamps and $300 of the 2 kids she gets a job at a fast-food restaurants her first month . Was under the amout she got from Social Services. She had to report her income because of the job. They took away her $300 a month money for the kids and almost all the food stamps. Left her with $150 a month .
The girl quit that day in the social service office. Right in front of my sister. And the girl got all her assistance that she had before working. the girl told my sister that she was living a lot better and not have to stress about going to work and be on time. Busting her butt for a little paycheck. Now she can do what ever she want .oh yeah her rent was being paid by social service so all she had to do was come out of her pocket with 15 to $20 a month and when she got her job she had to pay the full amount of the rent which was like maybe eight hundred bucks. Needless ti say i bet she still on welfare. That was in 2009.
It's weird that you are blaming that impiverished single mother rather than the system that forced her to decide between employment and putting food on her children's table.
I really thought your story was going in a different direction until the very end there
@@FriedPotatoFarmerdid you read the same comment i did? Because he's blaming the gov, not her.
Both are at fault. Stop giving people who are gaming the system a pass. If you really wanted out of welfate you would find a way
Many people do. Many people game the system.
She has kids. Many dont because they cant afford them. They could have...except they have to pay high taxes for her kids and herself. So they dont have kids
@@FriedPotatoFarmer you have terrible reading comprehension if that’s the conclusion you came to
@@FriedPotatoFarmerdon't have 4 or 5 children with a deadbeat while your likely in a shitty financial situation.
Something ironic about an actor who is worth millions, saying ceos and stuff haven’t earned their money, like dude your job is fucking easy, while the set builders, editors, and dozens of other positions work exponentially harder and get a fraction. Maybe he should share his next paycheque with the sound guys next time he’s in a shitty movie
That's what I'm saying
He's a hollyweird weirdo of course he's offended by it!!!!!!!!
Dwight isn’t wrong about the CEO situation. It’s a way bigger problem than gluttony in the lower class.
Right or wrong, he didn't write the damned song!
Yep. Well said
ya he is. You guys are guilty of envy. Do you get mad at your neighbor when he gets a raise because it comes out of your bank account? It's not a zero sum economy. Pretend a CEO of a company that has 100k employees forfeits his entire $100 mil salary so everyone in the company can "make it". That would just be another 1k for everyone. What a joke. It's not the problem.
The problem is a hyper inflated housing market, gas prices, supply chain issues, quiet quitting, woke agendas screwing up the bottom line in corporations, sky rocketing healthcare costs because government regs require it to be an oligopoly, wasteful unaccountable government spending increasing inflation and decreasing productivity, and a flood of new people coming across our border.... just to name a few.
No its not. There are more obese ppl than billionaires or millionaires. And in case u didnt know the money rich ppl spend basically holds up the entire economy. Hes speaking about politicians ,rich ppl lobbying not billionaires who just run a business. How did u get anything other than that?
No it's not.A billionaire isn't effecting your life.However the choices we make for ourselves does
People that don’t like that part are just completely oblivious that he’s not talking about the disabled people on welfare who literally cannot work. He’s talking about the people that abuse the system so they don’t have to work and staying overweight while there’s other people starving who literally CANT use the system that should be helping them.
@@bobbybobson19283 kind confused why you left this comment under mine 😂 I don’t think I ever used the word glutton or the word skinny.
@@bobbybobson19283 oh cry me a river. Are you really going to try and say the semantics take away from my overall statement. Who gives a shit. Obviously fat people can starve. You don’t magically lose 120lbs while not eating for over a week and starving to death. Didn’t realize I had to put a moron disclaimer in my comment. You’d rather nitpick than just agree with what is a POSITIVE comment 🤦🏽♂️
They are both right. No need to fuel the drama to pit people against each other.
The Office guy isn’t right though. The overarching theme of the song is CLASS STRUGGLE, which is literally the basis of all left wing sociopolitics. For fuck sake the name of the song is “RICH men north of Richmond.”
But there was one line about welfare misappropriation(which was also tied into a line about the issue of homelessness), so he simply dismissed the entirety of the song. It’s a completely absurd conclusion that’s typical of chronically online neoliberals.
Class struggle literally stems from "CEOs who make 400 times their average workers salary (up from 50 times 30 years ago) & corps that pay zero taxes & offshore tax shelters for billionaires" and politicians who facilitate those people and corporations.
FYI, politicians typically are CEOs of some sort who made insane amounts of money off the backs of workers that the song references. So again, they are both right. @@charlesbrown4483
@@charlesbrown4483he is right though…billionaires own an absolute absurd amount of money that it’s almost difficult to comprehend, yet pay minimal taxes and are very greedy. In 2017, only 8 men owned more money than half the population in the world. That was when bill gates was the richest man with $80 billion, it’s far worse now
@@charlesbrown4483lol
I’m not complaining about what Rainn said I mean he did call out the exploitation
I jate when actors think they’re important and intelligent just because they’re on TV. You’re not on tv because you’re intelligent, you’re on it because you’re emotional.
Well said. It can be both, but extremists have the overwhelming need to flip out on someone not being called out TOO.
Maybe another time folks. The next album is on the way.
The moral is that you are supposed to write and sing about what they want you to or else you'll get a call out. You have no artistic freedom whatsoever as far as they are concerned.
That’s definitely not the point of the song but I wouldn’t disagree and I’m sure Anthony doesn’t either.
Rainn Wilson said that because his overlords told him to.
Poor gluttons aren't the issue, sweety
Actually Oliver Anthony said his song was about the corporate globalist welfare and poor welfare scammers. I'll take the perspective of Oliver Anthony verses stupid talking heads including rain and the woman who is just as pathetic
So disappointing. I thought Rainn was better than that.
he's not wrong tbh
Bro he is literally not wrong though. The issue here isnt the poor taking advantage of programs. The issue is a lack of investment due to the rich hoarding.
The vast, VAST majority of new wealth is recycled in financial markets and locked up by executives that doesn’t get reinvested back into the economy.
Go back in history, the most prosperous peace times in America were when we taxed the rich the most.
I’d like to not even have some lazy shareholder make millions of dollars for buying shares in the first place, but lets start small with fixing this system. Cant change it overnight
Dude. Look at what he actually wrote on Twitter. Not what she says he wrote. She is getting paid big bucks to make up stuff to distract people who don't know better. Rainn is right. Compare corporate welfare to actual welfare. Corporate welfare ballooned to over 48x more then welfare for regular people. People on welfare most of the time also have jobs. Why are these companies who have had record profits getting billions? Why is the sum total of all welfare given to normal people 48x less then the sum total given to already profitable giant corporations? The dude is criticizing things that don't matter.
@@yohancain5295nerd
@@yohancain5295 the majority of people on welfare are people who don’t need it and the majority of people who need it don’t qualify. There are rich people on welfare. I would know. I’m related to some. Ignoring problems because you don’t like how they sound doesn’t make them disappear.
I think the "North of Richmond" part flew over his head. Needs to study geography
Why can’t they both be right? The system is broken and the CEO’s fk over everyone below them.
Don’t forget, the government works for them. 😂
Who do you think the rich men are north of Ricmond. This Wilson clown is a prick plain and simple.
I was at “Sprouts” grocery store yesterday…. I can only afford like 2 things from them.
They are asininely over priced!
I got 8oz of candy for $12.
As I’m in line to pay for my 4 things 3 boxers of fruit roll ups and one $12 candy… the lady in front of me had a CART FULL of amazing food!
I was livid when I realized 90% was paid by welfare and her 10% was all her booze!
I was all WTF?!?!?!
So I asked the checkout girl, she said welfare alone is keeping this store open!!!!
So yeah, Oliver Anthony has a valid point here! Why are we funding good that even WE CAN NOT afford?!
A man who has 14 million blaming those who have even more.Why not give away his fortune then?
People need to realize that all the welfare programs combined only account for 2%-5% of government spending. I am more concerned with the other 95% of government spending personally.
That isn't true, not in the slightest. The US Government has two budgets, the Mandatory and the Discretionary budget. The Mandatory budget encompasses almost all of what we call welfare, and it makes up a wopping 60% of the budget most years, add in a +/- 5% for variance. It includes SNAP, and Social Security, which are the two largest programs in the total budget. It includes several other forms of welfare as well. The Discretionary budget makes up the remainder. That is everything from the Departments of Education, Energy, Defense, State, Agriculture... The list goes on. Welfare is not a bad idea if it is being used on people who fix their situation, who grow, and become net contributors. Sadly, going on demographic studies, that is simply not the case. Most people who use welfare will never become a net contributor, not even in a single tax year!
That's not true at all. It's much higher percentage than that. But even if it were true, welfare is still a problem because of the way it is designed. It incentivizes people to make less because if they make more they get less benefits and it makes single moms to stay single. I have seen these results first hand from single moms turning down pay raises and relationships because they didn't want to want to ruin their benefits. Of course, when that happens, they also have less incentive to work hard and grow their career and live a fulfilling life.
Both are correct, it’s just stupid for Rainn to deny that.
Yeah i knew people were gonna say "oh well he doesnt care about this other thing he didnt mention?" Its like a song can only be so long wed be here for weeks if you wanted a comprehensive list. L take from rainn for sure
He’s not right though. The overarching theme of the song is CLASS STRUGGLE, literally the basis of all left wing sociopolitics.
The one topic of the song he apparently takes issue with, about welfare misappropriation, is tied into the line before it about homeless people starving in the streets…
It’s a completely brain dead take. The only explanation for someone disliking the subject matter of the song is because they heard a country voice. And in their peanut head, country=redneck=republican=evil=enemy.
😂 All I can see is Dwight Schrute being gas light in the office!
Awesome song! 👍 NAILED IT!!
He’s a rich person himself, I’m tired of all these rich people crying about rich people not paying their taxes and talking like they’re part of the middle/ working class. So if he’s complaining about rich people not paying their taxes he’s either silently admitting that he doesn’t pay his taxes himself or that the whole rich people don’t pay their taxes thing is a load of horseshit. I mean r there rich people who do that, yes, but overall most of them do pay their taxes.
She just went straight to talking like Buffalo Bill.😂
If I wrote a song, I’d sing about how rich people want me to sing about a certain group of people instead of allowing me the freedom to sing about who I wanna sing about😂
Yes, lets listen to the guy who played the office idiot for 9 years.
What he said actually is completely right. Do you want to be paying higher taxes so that big corporations don’t have to pay their fair share?
He's a millionaire...do you think he pays his "fair share"?
@@knightfox4121
@@knightfox4121his song coverd, corrupt politions, you wanna know who makes the laws that allow billionaires to scam and cheat the system? Those same corrupt politicians......hes calling them out and everyone eles in power who uses it to shit on the average person.......catching on yet???
@@knightfox4121 No it’s actually completely brain dead. The overarching theme of the song is CLASS STRUGGLE, literally the basis of all left wing sociopolitics.
The one line you, rain, and all other neoliberals take issue with about welfare misappropriation, is tied into the line before it about how we have homeless people starving in the streets.
Just say you hate the song because he has a country accent and in your mind “country = redneck = republican = enemy” and move along.
I’ve worked manufacturing, and warehouse for a lot of my life and this song simply just tells the truth about so many jobs, and what it’s like living low class
Haters gunna hate. He’s the one eating those fudge rounds!!
The song isn't about the fat people on welfare. It's about the politicians that let it happen! 🤦
our economy isnt screwed because of lazy people
come on lol. Sure, it's an issue, but most Americans are suffering because countless wars, corruption
70% of federal expenses are on welfare security. Defense budget is only 14%.
So tell me more how main problem is countless wars.
I, too, love posting imaginary numbers without citation in the comments section of political shorts.
@@Lambspascuant Open browser, pick your search engine of choice, type in "us federal spending" and first link(at least with DDG) should be to US Department of the Treasury site, that has rather good breakdown of US federal spendings. This site also has a few links to even more detailed breakdowns.
@@sjentWhere is your source? I just checked the budget on the government website and it said 20% went to social programs.
@@idiotshittiot My source is US Department of the Treasury.
Social Security - 21%(1.12T)
Health - 14%(741B)
Income Security - 13%(666B)
National Defense - 13%(666B)
Medicare - 13%(657B)
Net Interests - 11%(561B)
Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services - 5%(286B)
Veterans Benefits and Services - 4%(233B)
Transportation - 2%(100B)
Community and Regional Development - 1%(77B)
Other - 4%(192B)
Social Security + Health + Income Security + Medicate + Social Services + Veterans Benefits and Services = Social Welfare. Technically i could even add Net Interests here, as most of this debt has been acquired by giving free shit to parasites. This is why there is this huge debt.
"Social welfare is a broad and imprecise term that refers to different things depending on context. Strictly speaking, when used with the definite article, the term refers to the overall well-being of the entire society, which could be based on such factors as standard of living, access to essential social services, quality of the environment and exposure to crime.
In most general usage however, used without an article, it refers to a governmental system designed to assist and improve the well-being of those sectors of society most in need. These include those living below the poverty line, the elderly/retired, sick/permanently injured, unemployed, and those with new dependents (e.g., young mothers)."
They should outlaw women talking.
Rainn Wilson is an actor who's worth $14 million, he needs to sit down and shut up.
Rain Wilson Canceled!!!!!!!!!
Wilson's sittin' high & might on the millions he's earned from being fictional characters in fictional shows & movies. When will they ever get it? We don't care what Hollyweird says. We'll make up our own mind liberal, thank you very much. Meanwhile, Raiin could stand to lose a few pounds.
Fortunately, im not struggling and have stepped up to middle class, but the amount of sacrifices I've made and nearly died for won't let me forget where i came from. Anthony's message rings true, and the vast majority of this country knows that greed has ruined us. This country is imploding, and the 1% is riding this chaos out till there is nothing left because as far as they are concerned, when crap hits the fan, they can flee to there vacation home in any country and made sure we are so divided that we will be to busy fighting each other to go after the true tyrants who created this mess
Your absolutely right, fudge rounds are pure poison... That's why I eat the oatmeal pies. Lmao
I love how rainn will always be called Dwight from the office lmao
Ok lived in NY state for almost 2 decades and I'll give you an insight into how bad the welfare system is there....there are 4th and 5th generations welfare recipients....the state pays rent utilities food medical dental vision prescription and gives them a monthly check. I paid over 12,000 a year in property taxes alone and once went to the store got a can of tuna and stood and watched as the lady in front of me had an entire conveyor belt of steaks rung up then paid with a benefits card.....I just looked at the can of tuna and thought its nice to know that my taxes are paying for someone else to eat better than me.
Dammit Dwight. I think he was saying food stamps don’t buy healthy food, I don’t think it was a dig at poor people.
Crazy how rich actors think they know much about folk struggling to pay for basic things while working 40-50 hrs a week.
I just wanna sit at home and eat 300 BAGS OF FUDGE ROUNDS!
Rainn Wilson has donated over 18 million dollars to charity over the course of his career, I would say that's pretty generous for Richmond north of Richmond
If you make more money than the middle-class, and you try to express your opinions, they are null and void without question.
It doesn’t surprise me,It wouldn’t surprise me if someone in Hollywood asked him to say it.
They’re both correct. People should not be abusing welfare, corporations should not be abusing workers and exploiting them, whilst avoiding paying their taxes.
All I know is I gotta find me a bag of fudge rounds and a shop that takes ebt
They are trying to silence him with controversy. Guys when are we going to wake up?
I dont care that a mother is able to afford junk food for her and her family..
The damage 1 billionaire does is WAY MORE than hundreds, thousands of people who "game the system".
I agree with Mr. Wilson on this one.
You're absolutely wrong. Those billionaires actually produce things. They also provide jobs that are not taxpayer funded. Welfare recipients contribute nothing at all. And it's millions of peopke, not hundreds or thousands. Also those billionaires already pay the majority of taxes in this country.
When you throw a rock of truth into a pack of wolves, the ones that Yelp are the ones that got hit!
Welfare causes more harm than it does do good, there are way too many leeches in welfare who can’t get out of it or refuse to get out of it, in the modern Western world or at least these in America poor people are obese because they are the ones and large Who are eating cheapest and most unhealthy foods provided and approved by the government.
Put some of the welfare taxes into schools! People are refusing to pass levies in my state because it adds a little bit to their taxes! Our highschool is literally falling apart (we had a chunk of rotten drywall fall off of the wall), but they won’t vote to pass basic maintenance levies! Put some of that wasted money into maintaining the condition and improving the safety in our schools!
Hypocrite allowed to be hypocrites is sicking😅
So, he loves corrupt politicians?
The irony of a millionaire calling out Billionairs.
But you’d want top dollar for your bookings, he has cancelled concerts because they were charging $99.00 for a ticket!
And you know we don't give a f@+% what Dwight thinks . That hilarious that he even thought we even cared about him or what he thought . 😂😂😂😅😅😅😅
Tell me someone's in the big club without telling me you're in the big club.
He doesn't hate the song, he's just adding to it.
I believe it's in reference to a statistic that very high percentage of ebt money is spent on junk food.
People with tons of money love telling the less fortunate what to do. Fook em
Millionaires aren’t the ones to blame for playing less tax it’s the government that writes the codes that let them do it. If I was rich and had an option to not pay why wouldn’t I do it
The pay is up from 30 years ago only because of inflation. Everyone is actually making alot less, not to mention when minimal wage goes up everyone just doubles the price of everything so you can never get ahead.
Well fuck Rainn, Dwight is wayy better anyway.
Nothing more annoying than millionaires complaining about billionaires🤦🏽♂️