GOP bill to cut 40 Billion dollars in FOOD STAMPS! | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 47104454 United States 09/19/2013 11:43 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.usnews.com] Quoting: Melrox "It's welfare reform 2.0. It is pretty exciting," says Rep. Tim Huelskamp, R-Kan., one lawmaker who has been pushing to chop $40 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, during the next 10 years. "I think it is a very compassionate approach, targeting and reforming food stamps from being a way of life." Who said anything about a 'way-of-life'? What's so 'very compassionate' about this? It IS a way of life, when there are generations of kids who have NO IDEA how to get $$$ for food except with the EBT cards. It IS compassionate to give people a hand UP, instead of a hand OUT, and make them dependent on Uncle Sam, or anybody else's uncle, for that matter. It IS compassionate to TEACH people how to be self-sufficient and learn to FEED THEMSELVES. |
****SUPERFLY**** User ID: 19055858 United States 09/19/2013 11:46 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | How about prohibiting the use of food stamps to buy soda, junk food and other non-food items? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 39188864 yes, soda, candy bars, gum???, birthday cakes....I even watched some lady buying dog food because the supermarket had the dog food somehow misappropriated in the system as food. Now that is NOT a fucking mistake that is fraud on the supermarket....some say even some stores allow diapers. Nobody is watching the farm here folks! |
LT Prepper User ID: 46467605 United States 09/19/2013 11:46 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.usnews.com] Quoting: Melrox "It's welfare reform 2.0. It is pretty exciting," says Rep. Tim Huelskamp, R-Kan., one lawmaker who has been pushing to chop $40 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, during the next 10 years. "I think it is a very compassionate approach, targeting and reforming food stamps from being a way of life." Who said anything about a 'way-of-life'? What's so 'very compassionate' about this? Government dependence *IS* a way of life, and a pretty miserable one, at that. Why anyone would be in favor of having a government subsidized "underclass" of people is beyond me. This is a compassionate approach because it weans those without legitimate needs from the program over a period of years, instead of just cutting them off. Duh... |
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amywood71605 User ID: 46769830 United States 09/19/2013 11:51 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | How about prohibiting the use of food stamps to buy soda, junk food and other non-food items? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 39188864 yes, soda, candy bars, gum???, birthday cakes....I even watched some lady buying dog food because the supermarket had the dog food somehow misappropriated in the system as food. Now that is NOT a fucking mistake that is fraud on the supermarket....some say even some stores allow diapers. Nobody is watching the farm here folks! This. There's a small store in my town that lets people buy cigs. and alcohol with food cards too. They just ring it up under "Food" in the cash register. It's sickening. "Live each day like it's your last, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like no one is watching." GO PATS!! :Go Patriots!: |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 35410860 United States 09/19/2013 11:51 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Here's an article from 2005 that was reposted in 2009 [link to www.freerepublic.com] The authors noted that the number of Americans subsisting on welfare -- about 8 million, at the time -- probably represented less than half the number who were technically eligible for full benefits. They proposed a "massive drive to recruit the poor onto the welfare rolls." Cloward and Piven calculated that persuading even a fraction of potential welfare recipients to demand their entitlements would bankrupt the system. The result, they predicted, would be "a profound financial and political crisis" that would unleash "powerful forces … for major economic reform at the national level." |
Hard Eight User ID: 35278639 United States 09/19/2013 11:51 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | NYC welfare food is shipped in barrels to the Dominican Republic – then sold on the black market Food-stamp fraud in New York has turned into foreign aid — to black-market profiteers in the Dominican Republic. Last week, The Post revealed how New Yorkers on welfare are buying food with their benefit cards and shipping it in blue barrels to poor relatives in the Caribbean. But not everyone is giving the taxpayer-funded fare to starving children abroad. The Post last week found two people hawking barrels of American products for a profit on the streets of Santiago. “It’s a really easy way to make money, and it doesn’t cost me anything,” a seller named Maria-Teresa said Friday. More: [link to nypost.com] The rip-off is apparently so commonplace that giant plastic barrels used to pack up to $2,000 worth of provisions are sold in supermarkets across the Big Apple that cater to Caribbean immigrants. The scamming sibling pays $75 per barrel to transport the items to the DR through Mott Haven’s Luciano Shipping. Sometimes the family fraudsters take advantage of a special: three barrels for the price of two. [link to nypost.com] Last Edited by Hard Eight on 09/19/2013 11:56 AM Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may. Sam Houston "The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it." Thomas Jefferson If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed. -- Mark Twain Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and keys to teenage boys. -- P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian |
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LT Prepper User ID: 46467605 United States 09/19/2013 11:55 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.usnews.com] Quoting: Melrox "It's welfare reform 2.0. It is pretty exciting," says Rep. Tim Huelskamp, R-Kan., one lawmaker who has been pushing to chop $40 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, during the next 10 years. "I think it is a very compassionate approach, targeting and reforming food stamps from being a way of life." What about the over 600,000 in CA right now that haven't got their unemployment money in over 3 weeks?....hmmm *THAT* is the State of California's fault. We are seeing similar problems in NC. BTW, isn't it you LIBs who are always reminding us that "unemployment is not welfare, because people have paid into it" And of course, none of this has anything at all to do with the bill this thread is about... so why are you shiiling? |
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Integrity101 User ID: 1526444 United States 09/19/2013 11:58 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | How about prohibiting the use of food stamps to buy soda, junk food and other non-food items? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 39188864 yes, soda, candy bars, gum???, birthday cakes....I even watched some lady buying dog food because the supermarket had the dog food somehow misappropriated in the system as food. Now that is NOT a fucking mistake that is fraud on the supermarket....some say even some stores allow diapers. Nobody is watching the farm here folks! Exactly, if the recipients are allowed to buy such items other than the bare necessities it gives no motivation to better themselves. |
LT Prepper User ID: 46467605 United States 09/19/2013 11:59 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 47107726 To me, it is a direct admission that the Democrats know damn well that their economic agenda has failed, kinda like Bernanke announcing that he was "just kidding" about tapering QE. That was a REAL doozy: QE hasn't worked, so we can't stop it now. Only a liberal could use that sort pretzel logic. And always does. ^^^^^ THIS ^^^^^ X 63,000,000,000,000 of US Federal debt. It has to stop, and NOW. |
LT Prepper User ID: 46467605 United States 09/19/2013 12:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | How about prohibiting the use of food stamps to buy soda, junk food and other non-food items? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 39188864 yes, soda, candy bars, gum???, birthday cakes....I even watched some lady buying dog food because the supermarket had the dog food somehow misappropriated in the system as food. Now that is NOT a fucking mistake that is fraud on the supermarket....some say even some stores allow diapers. Nobody is watching the farm here folks! Exactly, if the recipients are allowed to buy such items other than the bare necessities it gives no motivation to better themselves. It is not the government's responsibility to motivate people...natural consequences do that so long as others don't interfere. Neither is it their purview to reward the behavior of individuals, be that behavior "good" or "bad". Welfare and other "social benefits" reward bad behavior, plain and simple. THAT's why it must stop. |
MonocyteOne User ID: 15041895 United States 09/19/2013 12:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | How 'bout first reinstate glass-steagall, declare the trillions of debt to foreign banks 'illegal'. Maybe after that we can address inefficiency of social programs. But no, that would *actually* benefit America, and our politicians DON'T WANT THAT. Last Edited by everLearner on 09/19/2013 12:06 PM |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 20969160 United States 09/19/2013 12:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Food stamps are just hiding the fact that there isn't that much left to do ATM. What are they going to do? Damn near everyone has a car or two, place to live, TVs, computers, phones, iCrap, game systems. Railroads, roads, airports, dams, skyscrapers a whole list of stuff is already there and some of it ghost towning. Evan at that most jobs are just busy work and it's only a matter of time before a lot of them get automated away. Plus they are trying to license, insure, regulate and fee small businesses and especially start ups out of business. Now they are starting on the medium size businesses. Game plan we all starve in a hovel. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 35410860 United States 09/19/2013 12:08 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This is like patching a massive hole with a tiny piece of duct-tape, while saying "Hey everyone, look! I care, and I'm trying to fix this!" Quoting: MonocyteOne How 'bout first reinstate glass-steagall, declare the trillions of debt to foreign banks 'illegal'. Maybe after that we can address inefficiency of social programs. But no, that would *actually* benefit America, and our politicians DON'T WANT THAT. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 25030473 United States 09/19/2013 12:10 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.usnews.com] Quoting: Melrox "It's welfare reform 2.0. It is pretty exciting," says Rep. Tim Huelskamp, R-Kan., one lawmaker who has been pushing to chop $40 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, during the next 10 years. "I think it is a very compassionate approach, targeting and reforming food stamps from being a way of life." Who said anything about a 'way-of-life'? What's so 'very compassionate' about this? The Republicans are shooting themselves in the foot. AGAIN! You can hear the democrats now: "SEE, SEE? They fell all over themselves to give TRILLIONS to the BANKERS and WALL STREET, but pinch pennies when it comes to the poor." They don't pick their battles well, and they reinforce every negative stereotype every chance they get. If they keep it up, they will blow 2014. There's much truth in the reply. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 31290433 United States 09/19/2013 12:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | How about just investigating the open fraud that occurs. Start at the top of the 'food chain'. A federal grand jury indicted 10 Baltimore business owners or operators on charges of stealing nearly $7 million from food assistance programs by agreeing to debit cash for beneficiaries without selling food — then keeping a cut of the proceeds. The owner of a corner grocery in West Baltimore called "Second Obama Express" is accused of obtaining more than $2 million in payments for food sales that never occurred, a practice that authorities call "food stamp trafficking." Eight others are accused of taking between $348,000 and $1.4 million. "Taxpayers fund the food stamp program to put food on the tables of needy recipients, not to put money in the pockets of greedy criminals," U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein said. "Food producers and distributors benefit when food stamp funds are used to buy food, and honest storeowners work hard to earn a profit by actually selling food." [link to www.baltimoresun.com] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 20969160 United States 09/19/2013 12:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | How about prohibiting the use of food stamps to buy soda, junk food and other non-food items? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 39188864 Who do you think lobbys to keep food stamps? You think the congress and president give two fucks about some starving kids? NO! But they get plenty of cash and favors from Coke and Pepsi and whoever else, Walmart, FOOD STAMPS ARE CORPORATE WELFARE! |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 25030473 United States 09/19/2013 12:13 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | How about prohibiting the use of food stamps to buy soda, junk food and other non-food items? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 39188864 There's always ways to circumvent. Leave it alone or go back to commodities. Of all the free housing, free cell phones,money for having children that people can't afford and money going to other countries, focusing on FOOD stamps is quite ridiculous. It's really hard to qualify (unless you know someone). We are a first world country atm still, stupid to go after feeding our own. |
Master Jedi Powers User ID: 45078308 United States 09/19/2013 12:15 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Hey, how about we cut off half a trillion a year to Das Fed? Last Edited by Mad Scientist (aka AmJedi) on 09/19/2013 12:15 PM (GLP aka American Jedi) Listen here you beautiful bitch, I'm about to fuck you up with some truth. Kenny Powers If you steal the dreams of others long enough, sooner or later you'll end up in a nightmare. American Jedi Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. Albert Einstein Satis Eloquentiae, Sapientiae Parum.... "The last of the old?" "No, the first of the new." |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 47039989 United States 09/19/2013 12:17 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Prosecute Wall St to the maximum amount.. the Trillions of dollars that are made and swapped in illegal trades and actions... of course that will not ever happen. Tax revenues are way down for one real, the mega predatory capitalists are working very hard to keep all the moneys locked behind vaults and not out in circulation. 600 Billion per year for a DoD that wastes trillions in a four year span... for that money ever man, women, and child that resides in the USA would eat like kings. But no, the time will come though, if peoploe get hunger enough, the Rich will be eaten... |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 47107726 Thailand 09/19/2013 12:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.usnews.com] Quoting: Melrox "It's welfare reform 2.0. It is pretty exciting," says Rep. Tim Huelskamp, R-Kan., one lawmaker who has been pushing to chop $40 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, during the next 10 years. "I think it is a very compassionate approach, targeting and reforming food stamps from being a way of life." Who said anything about a 'way-of-life'? What's so 'very compassionate' about this? The Republicans are shooting themselves in the foot. AGAIN! You can hear the democrats now: "SEE, SEE? They fell all over themselves to give TRILLIONS to the BANKERS and WALL STREET, but pinch pennies when it comes to the poor." They don't pick their battles well, and they reinforce every negative stereotype every chance they get. If they keep it up, they will blow 2014. There's much truth in the reply. Thinking like that in the first post I quoted, while it is certainly correct, results in sacred cows. The creation of sacred cows, things too sacred to touch, are the exact thing liberals depend on when expanding the government's control over the people. If Republicans stop fighting the creation and maintenance of these socialist sacred cows, they may pick up a few votes from the people who worship them. However, they'll lose the votes from the people who sent them to Washington to kill and eat those sacred cows. Presumably, the latter group is more numerous, accounting for why they got elected in the first place. Seems a pretty simple choice to me, despite the fact that you'll never read about this choice in the LMSM. |
ladycaska User ID: 46231600 United States 09/19/2013 12:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | So, they're going to cut the SNAP program, and implement Obamacare at the same time? So for people who actually need help, they are going to be stretching it even farther just to pay for health care. And on that note, tons of companies are cutting hours so they don't have to offer health insurance and instead have their employers get obamacare on their own? This certainly is a doozy. 1. Cut foodstamps. 2. Implement Obamacare. 3. Cut hours = less pay. Am I getting this right? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 47107726 Thailand 09/19/2013 12:24 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Prosecute Wall St to the maximum amount.. the Trillions of dollars that are made and swapped in illegal trades and actions... of course that will not ever happen. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 47039989 Tax revenues are way down for one real, the mega predatory capitalists are working very hard to keep all the moneys locked behind vaults and not out in circulation. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 47039989 600 Billion per year for a DoD that wastes trillions in a four year span... for that money ever man, women, and child that resides in the USA would eat like kings. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 47039989 Then the poor will starve, because it is the rich who they are living off. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 7159688 United States 09/19/2013 12:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Congress could vote today on cutting 40 billion dollars over a 10 yr. period. Quoting: Melrox [link to www.npr.org] Ruh Roh! Good. We need to cut more than that. I see it every day, right now the system is being used by scumbag naggers that abuse it to get free stuff. Why should anyone with multiple flat screen TVs, cell phones, computers, Xbox and Playstation get handouts when it comes to food? The "poor" just want to spend all their money on gadgets and junk/fast food, then when it's time to go grocery shopping "Oops out of money! Gotta swipe that EBT!" |