The Biggest Heist in America Is Being Sold as a Gift to Children — CounterPunch
The Biggest Heist in America Is Being Sold as a Gift to Children — CounterPunch
Dec 5 2025, 1:54 AM
Specifically this comment quoting the article got my attention: https://reddit.com/comments/1pdwk0f/comment/ns83q2x
Quote:The trick here is simple and old. You starve the public systems until they’re so weak that anything looks like relief. Then you let a billionaire deliver a drop of water and call it a miracle. Americans have been trained to applaud the spectacle. They forget to ask why one of the richest men in the country gets to decide how twenty-five million children experience their first introduction to money. They forget to ask why the richest people get public praise for giving back pennies compared to what they extract. They forget to ask why children need investment accounts instead of stable housing, food, medical care, and schools that aren’t falling apart.
There's also this entertaining video from a streamer guy about this stupid kids investment scam thing:
Oh, edit, also this comment was insightful:
waxwayne This remind me of what the west (mostly Europe) did to Africa. They put African countries in huge debt and dictated what crops they could grow. Those crops were sent to European grocery stores. Then out of the blue Africans started not having enough food. The same west that created the problem started large charities to help feed these poor Africans. Africa is the most resource rich continent on earth but we had pundits and comedians saying how dumb Africans were to live there without food.
It’s the same in the US the rich have transferred all the wealth to themselves so these kids have no future but in the name of charity they are now giving back.
Edited Dec 5 2025, 2:02 AM by Clover.
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An article about the weird-ass new "Trump Kids funds": The Biggest Heist in America Is Being Sold as a Gift to Children
Specifically this comment quoting the article got my attention: https://reddit.com/comments/1pdwk0f/comment/ns83q2x
Quote:The trick here is simple and old. You starve the public systems until they’re so weak that anything looks like relief. Then you let a billionaire deliver a drop of water and call it a miracle. Americans have been trained to applaud the spectacle. They forget to ask why one of the richest men in the country gets to decide how twenty-five million children experience their first introduction to money. They forget to ask why the richest people get public praise for giving back pennies compared to what they extract. They forget to ask why children need investment accounts instead of stable housing, food, medical care, and schools that aren’t falling apart.
There's also this entertaining video from a streamer guy about this stupid kids investment scam thing:
Oh, edit, also this comment was insightful:
waxwayne This remind me of what the west (mostly Europe) did to Africa. They put African countries in huge debt and dictated what crops they could grow. Those crops were sent to European grocery stores. Then out of the blue Africans started not having enough food. The same west that created the problem started large charities to help feed these poor Africans. Africa is the most resource rich continent on earth but we had pundits and comedians saying how dumb Africans were to live there without food.
It’s the same in the US the rich have transferred all the wealth to themselves so these kids have no future but in the name of charity they are now giving back.
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