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House votes to cut $4 billion a year from food stamp
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Drop of water in the ocean
Drop of water in the ocean
"The bill's savings would be achieved by allowing states to put broad new work requirements in place for many food stamp recipients and to test applicants for drugs. The bill also would end government waivers that have allowed able-bodied adults without dependents to receive food stamps indefinitely."
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This is horrible.
See, I have as much resentment of people who abuse the system (particularly those who pump out babies just for the sake of increasing benefits) and "generational" welfare families. It's sad, it's sick, it's not healthy, etc., etc. But this shit ... it hits EVERYBODY and there are people who genuinely need the benefits, who have health conditions that make it impossible to work (yes, I know all you able minded and bodied folks cannot imagine being so messed up you can't work but it happens to good people, and living with/off family isn't always an option).
I have a friend who has multiple mental health issues (despite being very intelligent) and multiple degenerative health conditions. She physically cannot handle the demands of a job, period, and even if the job is just mentally demanding her mental health problems preclude her doing that. She's a good person who got handed a shit sandwich for life. Because her medications, 90% of which are psychoactive drugs, cost sooooo much -- upwards of $2,000 a month -- her food stamps have been cut to a grand total of $16 a month. She only gets $1,000 a month cash and her rent alone is $290, she needs a car to get around (public transportation in my state unless you're right in Philly SUCKS) she has to pay electric and phone and everything else like the rest of us.
The system has to treat everyone the same, judge them and accord them benefits by the same standards. So laws that reduce benefits reduce them for everyone. Maybe it drives a few to find what work they can but the rest just have to seek out food banks and learn to live on cheap calories.
See, I have as much resentment of people who abuse the system (particularly those who pump out babies just for the sake of increasing benefits) and "generational" welfare families. It's sad, it's sick, it's not healthy, etc., etc. But this shit ... it hits EVERYBODY and there are people who genuinely need the benefits, who have health conditions that make it impossible to work (yes, I know all you able minded and bodied folks cannot imagine being so messed up you can't work but it happens to good people, and living with/off family isn't always an option).
I have a friend who has multiple mental health issues (despite being very intelligent) and multiple degenerative health conditions. She physically cannot handle the demands of a job, period, and even if the job is just mentally demanding her mental health problems preclude her doing that. She's a good person who got handed a shit sandwich for life. Because her medications, 90% of which are psychoactive drugs, cost sooooo much -- upwards of $2,000 a month -- her food stamps have been cut to a grand total of $16 a month. She only gets $1,000 a month cash and her rent alone is $290, she needs a car to get around (public transportation in my state unless you're right in Philly SUCKS) she has to pay electric and phone and everything else like the rest of us.
The system has to treat everyone the same, judge them and accord them benefits by the same standards. So laws that reduce benefits reduce them for everyone. Maybe it drives a few to find what work they can but the rest just have to seek out food banks and learn to live on cheap calories.
Jesus Christ.
Everyone in this country is so fucking used to being taken care of by someone else that the thought of having to give up a little free shit throws everyone into a panic.
Fuck all these yuppie pieces of shit who cry because the free shit they get this week is a little less than the free shit they got last week.
Let's bankrupt the government so that more fuckwads can abuse welfare, great idea.
Everyone in this country is so fucking used to being taken care of by someone else that the thought of having to give up a little free shit throws everyone into a panic.
Fuck all these yuppie pieces of shit who cry because the free shit they get this week is a little less than the free shit they got last week.
Let's bankrupt the government so that more fuckwads can abuse welfare, great idea.
NO, it isn't.
There are approximately 47 million people who rely on food stamps. Do the math. That $4 billion equals $85 a month per foodstamp family. Not much when you have an income over poverty level. HUGE when you're living on welfare.
Its cutting $4B per YEAR, not per month. Its $7 a month when using your 47M person figure.
Gotta start somewhere when we are $16T in debt with out of control entitlement spending
Oh yea, fuck corporate welfare also
Lulz
Math is hard
Math is hard
TheSVPdeal
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Our system is broken and should be scrapped.
This makes all other points moot.
There is nothing we can do at this point but start over.
This makes all other points moot.
There is nothing we can do at this point but start over.
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