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This cut in food stamps is going to hurt the economy. Who are the geniuses in the federal government that think this is a good idea? The economy is still recovering. And food stamps have a stimulative effect on the economy.
Well then, perhaps some, not all, should be granted extensions and so forth. Case by case basis.
I don't know how they would have done that, but it would have been more just. It probobaly would cost more to pull that off than what they are saving. My gripe is that the reason they are giving for this being implemented is disengnuous, not to mention downright cruel.
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The proposed GOP cut is such a piddling amount of money, in terms of the whole federal budget and especially when spread out over 10 years. But nearly half of it is quite literally taking food out of the mouths of children. What’s the point? The point really is that Tea Party Republicans think these people don’t deserve the help. That’s some fascinating logic. The economy melts down because of something a bunch of crooked bankers do. The people at the bottom quarter of the economy, who’ve been getting jobbed for 30 years anyway and who always suffer the most in a downturn, start getting laid off in huge numbers. They have children to feed. Probably with no small amount of shame, they go in and sign up for food stamps.
The other argument one sometimes hears concerns the dreadful curse of food-stamp fraud. The actual rate of food-stamp fraud—people selling their coupons for cash—is 1.3 percent, but this of course doesn’t prevent the right from finding a couple of garish anecdotes and making it seem as if they’re the norm. Voter fraud, Medicaid fraud, food-stamp fraud…Somehow, in Republican America, only poor people and blacks commit fraud.
Nothing makes Republicans happier than heaping misery on the poor. It is the backbone of what they stand for.
Very true.
"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
- John Kenneth Galbraith
I see condemnation encoded everywhere, just look around. Partisan politics is not the cause.
OMG! A recession! These working poor folks, will go without tattoos, they may have to, gasp, spend their own money on food!
Why do these folks on EBT, have more tattoos than a rock star?
Can you quantify that?
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