Andrew Sage

They're just not getting enough money to actually survive and feed their family.

And the $4,200 a year for a family is not, in fact, enough to stockpile a huge quantity of food.

No, it's not.

It's remarkable how detached the people who make our laws are from the working class experience.

There is no way that guy knows how much a banana costs.

No way.

No, he has no idea.

That man hasn't shopped for himself in fucking 20 years.

Yeah, that guy does not know how much it costs to buy mac and cheese for your kids.

And obviously, we talk about storing food, about canning your own food, and there are things you can do, even on a budget when you don't have much money, to build a stockpile.

And that's why I encourage people to pay attention to things like

prices at the grocery store when things are a lot cheaper because they're in season and learn how to do things like pressure can, right?

And pickle different foods and whatnot because there are ways that you can

And this is why.

Right.

It's not because you should be doing that or you're irresponsible.

It's because we even when it comes to the social safety net that we have, what little of one that we have, you can't rely on it because at any given point it could become a fucking fucking football for Democrats and Republicans to fight over and go away.

Right.

Like none of this stuff is reliable.

Right.