The number of Americans relying on federal help to get food has been climbing for years now, with 45 million people and 21 million households currently dependent on the program. It’s not just the unemployed relying on the vouchers — seniors, veterans, school children and the disabled are among the groups hit hardest in this Great Recession. And the Republicans in Congress have a great idea that will save money and take care of the hunger problem: Cut America’s “Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program” completely so that the hungry people will all die. Win win!
The Republicans’ 2012 budget plan proposes changing SNAP from an entitlement to a block-grant program that would be tailored for each individual state, much like their proposal for Medicaid. States would no longer receive open-ended subsidies and the aid would be contingent on work or job training. It would also limit funding for the program.
It’s time that disabled veterans and near-death seniors and dumb impoverished schoolchildren stop living the high life and start appreciating that freedom isn’t free. Also, the state with the highest percentage of people on food relief — New Mexico — plans to immediately stop providing food assistance to seniors and the disabled. Somebody has to put an end to these luxuries. [ABC/New Mexico Independent]
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Eat those bootstraps, people.
Deep fried, with ranch dressing on the side.
Delicious w/ Poverty Sauce and hobo beans!
That's pretty difficult when you don't have any boots to begin with…
Hunger is the great incentive!
Eat the Rich!
Isn't this how the French Revolution started?
I'd say "Let them eat cake," but they probably can't afford anything other than that hydrogenated box crap, if that.
What do you say when there will be in old age?
When life gives you lemons, shut up and eat your lemons.
Love, the GOP
Take chicken shit, make chicken salad.
Salad is supported by Michelle Obama-Ayers thus is part of the commie agenda.
I say eat the chicken shit as is, and you better be smiling when you do!
Would that be a shit eating grin?
Too bad the GOP doesn't know the difference between chicken shit and chicken salad.
Let a smile be your umbrela, then use it to beat the shit out of Eric Cantor.
Lemons cost money. Shut up and eat your goddamn rocks.
Boil those rocks in polluted creek water, add a little lawn clippings from a CEO's lawn, and yum-yum! You've got GOP gumbo.
Have you bought a lemon lately? They're like 79 cents each! We can't afford that shit.
Scurvey free poverty!!11! Yay!
GOP = Lemon Party?
Unless they're armored tactical field lemons that cost $2.5 billion apiece for Lockheed Martin to manufacture, in which case, we'll need another 50 cartons.
Barb, that was just brilliant.
Please, sir, can I have some more?
No. Go fuck yourself.
Sincerely,
John Boehner.
Sincerely,
Dick Cheney
P.S. Also.
The GOP is looking for a world somewhere between Dickensian London and the Gilded Age. Plenty of debtor prisons and workhouses to supply willing servants to the rich.
Please, sir, can I have anything?
You'll get nothing! And like it!!
Bed Porn line ever. (Not a highly competitive category.)
No, Oliver.
But don't blame me, blame all those commie soshalists who outlawed child labor.
"Please, sir, can I have some
more?"fixed
Of course they want to cut food stamps; the Republicans can't stand the fact that the unquestionable greatest President of the 20th Century, and perhaps ever, was a liberal Democrat (and one who couldn't even walk) and so are trying to do everything they can to destroy his legacy.
Then W could take that spot…
Plus, he was extraordinarily wealthy, but not a smug, self-serving asshole. FDR made/makes all the modern Gooper Plutocrats look bad.
Hey, now–Lyndon Johnson could walk…
They believe that Herbert Hoover was framed.
Starving the Hungreez to death to solve the hunger problem. Genius.
When they're in Hell, I can't wait for the bill's sponsors to ask Satan for a drink of water.
The Republican Bible consists of three chapters: Genesis (no evolution), Leviticus (no gays), and Revelations (no sense worrying about tomorrow). Forget all that stuff about helping the poors, it's just filler.
And while you're at it, make sure to throw on another tax break for the ultra-wealthy, don't want to risk them not thinking of you next election.
Their Bible doesn't have any of that "render under Caeser" stuff either
They've been working hard to get rid of the first four books of the New Testament. Those words in red are communist!
Yeah, just keep Paul, who hatefucked slaves, women, children, and revolutionaries. Strangely, the Sermon on the Mount, the sentiments of which predominate in the Gospels and are the central tenets of Xty, are absent in the fundies rightwing hatefucking screeds.
I hope the DC heat has brewed up enough rotten vegetables in the White House garden for FLOTUS to give the House Republicans a good pelting today when they show up to discuss raising the debt limit (i.e., to get lectured by POTUS).
Well, if you can't kick 'em when they're down, when can you kick them?
Good on you for asking the hard questions!
Fair and Balanced!!
Ah ha ha ha. More upfists!
Meh, all them food stamp people are fat anyway, could use to lose some weight.
*doesn't take into account the fact that the cheapest foods and therefore "best value" are the ones with the most starch and other fattening shit*
"Welfare Whales," what a great name for an indie band! Hipsters, take note…
Silly me. I always thought Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" was satire. It's really a GOP Action Plan.
Look for the Swiftian talking points!
Absolutely! God forbid they riot and eat the rich.
rich are too stringy or fatty – no good meat
Who cares? You can still have them stuffed and hung up on the wall, right?
The poors love them some jerky, and a lot of those orange rich folks come pre-dessicated.
The Donner Party called. They said when you are hungry, you can't afford to be picky.
And nothing goes better with child fricassee than a nice can of Hobo Beans skinked from the local Bent & Dent.
Kim Jong-Il approves.
The Republicans would turn this place in the Greater North Korea in no time, if given half a chance. Of course, they all see themselves as extended members of the Jong Il family in their power-driven fever-dream, thus they would be the portly few in a sea of emaciated
serfspeasantsvassals.Your avatar just made me miss the divine Miss Ivins. I would love to have heard her take on this.
I would love to hear her take on anything. Miss her lots.
If a few of the olds and poors have to die so that rich people don't have to endure the socialist trauma of paying their fair share of taxes, then that's a sacrifice those freeloading bastards should joyfully make.
Stop being a drain on society losers!
As long as there are no death panels involved: people shouldn't be able to ease their way out with drugs!
If people starve on the street, that's just the market at work, it helps incentivise the rest of the slackers researching their employment options.
Suffering builds character.
How Zen! GET OUTTA OF JEBUS EMERICA!!!!!
They'll change their tune when their gardeners and housekeepers start dying. Not because of compassion: It's so inconvenient to break in new ones.
Oh, SNAP!
Next up: "GOP to declare puppies, kittens no longer cute". They really are a bunch of assholes–God forbid any of them ever fall on hard times & need help from their socialist government.
Au contraire — that is exactly what I wish for. And I hope their caseworkers are Patty and Selma Bouvier.
Yeah, I'm all into the schadenfreude, would love this.
You mean like a tornado, flood, hurricane, forrest fire, or bridge collapse?
They get PLENTY of government assistance… tax breaks, subsidies, cash back, etc…
Next, GOP declares the poor don't need food stamps anyway because there are many stray puppies and kittens on the streets and in shelters who they can eat.
No one falls on hard times. They choose to be poor.
These layabouts need to stop depending on their betters for a paycheck and start their own business.
I think some of the GOP are actually drinking that tea and believing exactly that. It's not true, it has never been true and it will never be true. Sort of like the theory that wealth will trickle down from the rich to the poor. You know, horseshit.
At least maybe some of them veterans probably had jungle or desert survival school and know how to make a meal out of cactus or liana vines and some snakes and horny toads and shit.
…and know how to make a meal out of
cactus or liana vines and some snakes and horny toads andshit like the old bastards that gleefully sent them overseas to get all banged up, but seemingly wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire./fixed
With Gecko Urine Vinaigrette.
What are people bitching about? People in Haiti eat dirt & you don't hear them complaining. Plus there's plenty of dirt to go around. Win/Win!
And scientists are discovering that eating dirt builds a healthy immune system! Win-win!
C'mon, tell the whole story now.
That 45 million number doesn't seem so bad when you realize that 38 million of that 45 million are incarcerated in some form or another.
Or should be. Or will be soon.
Prisons – America's Growth Industry for the 21st Century™.
You are mixing up your 45's. It is a different 45M that are in prison, which is why we can't afford to keep feeding the 45M out of work, but not yet in prison.
Wait! If we put the out-of-work in prison for being poor, we don't have to feed them because they're terrible criminals and we are very tough on crime in this country! This problem just solved itself.
You guys all act like governing is hard or something.
Think of them as camps. when America concentrates, we can finally find a solution!
Finally!
Why are we surprised? This is the logical next step after "fixing" healthcare by trying to repeal the health care bill. Next up: we will clean air by increasing carbon emissions and we will improve water quality by pissing in wells.
As the Repubicans exercise the political power they won in the last election, people have a chance to see their vision for America. It's all about the uterus and a safety net for billionaires. While the poor, unemployed, hungry (hungry!) people get to live a 19th century ideal of self-sufficiency in today's age of riches.
Think of all the money we could save if we'd substitute left over styrofoam packing-peanuts into bridge construction, instead of that expensive cement.
The Hoover Diet Plan will keep the poors from voting. They'll be too weak to pull their photo IDs out their pockets. Bwhahahaha!
Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love – they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
You hungry fucks better get to painting. I wanna see some masterpieces!
Anyone who expect the Reptilian Party to pay for anything artistic is crazier that 2 teapartiers!
That guy has already done his "good presidents/bad presidents" AND his "Jesus comes back and the good people celebrate" paintings – if those are not masterpieces then I don't know art! Of course you can't get it at BYU.
And then there's the Orly Taitz portrait!
Hey – this is fun! OK, I'll stop now but I didn't even get to the Jeb Bush portrait.
It's basic economics folks. Fewer people to buy food, food prices come down for the rich. Win, win!
This will end in tears: as fewer people buy food, revenue falls pushing prices down, resulting in lower profits for the rich, who will then turn on their lobbyists, who'll get all up in Rep. Whoever's grill, which will bring about even stranger social engineering legislation, that will kill the remaining 200 poors, leading the rich to eat the rich, which they'll have to catch, prep and cook themselves! Themselves, people! The anguished wailing that will ensue will break hearts…
So there is a silver lining to this continuing cloud?
Just you wait until they find a way to privatize air.
Total Recall as policy guide.
The bastards are already trying to steal my well water and sell it back to me…
Of course, they can all get jobs at McDonald's and eat the leftovers.
Solved.
McDonalds can't hire all those people without compromising the sterling level of quality they're famous for. Perhaps if they open up their dumpsters.
Do they realize that some fetuses will be aborted due to lack of maternal nutrition? So this is a pro abortion measure passed by Republicans. How ironic.
Yes, but due to all the restrictions the states are putting up that make abortion effectively illegal for poor women they will be getting the abortions from back-alley butchers and some of them will be killed in the process, which is exactly what the "pro-life" lobby wants to happen.
Not that kind of abortion. Spontaneous abortion aka miscarriage. Or the kind where the fetus stops growing and a D&E is needed or else the woman will get an infection and die. Oh wait, D&Es won't happen anymore if Virginia Foxx gets her way. Awesome. So death to hungry pregnant poor women all around.
And yet the delicate dainties in the MSM and blue dog types keep saying it's rude to point out that "GOPers want non rich people to die."
Paging Alan Grayson.
The Republican health care plan; Don't get sick. If you do get sick, die quickly. Man, did he nail these fuckers or what?
It was always funny how Strom Thurmond came down in favour of stem-cell research after his (legitimate/white) daughter was found to have insulin-dependent diabetes.
It's just like how Sarah Palin supports government aid to mentally disabled children, but no other government programs to help people. If it benefits them or their families, then they're all for it.
Per worthless media:
Death Panels is NOT demagogy.
Saying that the Republicans are heartless assholes politicizing disaster relief, cutting food stamps and privatizing Medicare, (pointing out the truth), IS demagogy. Where are we all moving again?
What a bunch of motherfuckers.
At least they are consistent motherfuckers. Just imagine the confusion if they announced something involving tolerance or compassion.
Or the Sermon on the Mount.
I checked out the New Mexico Independent story and it turns out that NM provides at minimum for each food stamp recipient the amazing sum of $25 per month.
Twenty-five dollars PER MONTH. I'm sure a lot of people are getting more than that but still….think about it.
Jesus, that's a lot of store-brand ramen. Dog food too expensive at that price point.
I read some of the "comments". What has happened to our fellow citizens? Ugly, hateful ignorant assholes hax Faux created.
I only read comments on Wonkette and (occasionally) TPM. Everywhere else? Leads me to hate humanity.
Absolutely agree.
Think of it this way, you'll look back on this comment in 5 years and say, "good times."
Sad… but true…
Maybe that's why May 21st passed and no one noticed. No one is worthy of being Raptured anymore.
They must expect people to live on a bag of pinto beans plus any wild greens and road kill they can scavenge.
The New Mexico program for the elderly is $500,000 a year. They seriously can't come up with that?
I bet you that their legislature has some "fact finding" and "development" activities that add up to much more than that.
They probably spend more on guarding the Roswell Site…
In California the minimum allotment is $16. the average allotment is a little under $200/month. Of course the GOP hates SNAP–it's one of the best local stimulus programs going, with funds spent locally. Each SNAP dollar spent generates $1.72 in additional local spending. Yeah, who needs that?
No wonder fry bread is so popular with the natives. It's cheap and filling, and kills you through obesity, diabetes, coronary heart disease, and hypercholesteremia in middle age.
Expect the talking heads on the Sunday A.M. shows to start praising the 'seriousness' of the G.O.P. plan, and demand to see the Democratic plan to cut food stamps.
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With no Democratic representation of course.
I'm sure it's time to do away with the overly generous minimum wage laws and let the invisible hand of the market determine wages.
Then we could stop pretending to want to halt illegal immigration and just start shooting those folks coming across the border without the proper papers.
Don't forget about child labor laws. Those lazy 10-year-old kids need to get off their asses.
How else will we compete with the Chinese? We've got to let the factories have our kids, and at a bargain too. It's our only choice.
Yup, and if our kids want "things," they can just sell off their organs like the Chinese kid did!
You mean shooting only the ones not riding in a bus sponsored by Tyson Chicken, right?
Exactly! Ending illegal immigration will save tons of money in "entitlements" but won't raise your cost of living, no sirree.
I'm surprised they are not afraid of being killed by the people they are hurting. So much for richies being smarter!
It really is exasperating that the folks these programs help the most usually vote Republican, think Snowbilly is awesome, etc. They just can't get past the whole Barry is black thing.
Have you seen the way American cities are designed? The white poors are dispersed and invisible, the brown and black poors are concentrated where they can be shot easily from highway overpasses. New Orleans was an instructive test run. 70 years of careful planning is a great security system.
Yeah, we've moved on to the "concentration neighborhood." "Camp" was too bucolic of a term.
"concentration neighborhood" – - hmmmm……
not very catchy – it'll never sell –
if there was just a single word to capture the concept – - I think ghetto might be the word for which you are looking….
some things never change –
First you feed them high fructose corn syrup and freedom fries, then they're easier to shoot because they are big, slow-moving targets.
You have to be at least upper middle class to buy guns&ammo.
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Why, this is just another example of Left-Wing Hate Rhetoric. THIS CLASS WAR AGAINST THE RICH MUST STOP!
has anyone read the comments in the new mexico article?…..wow americans are horrible people. we really are doomed.
It's almost as if they were Arizonans or something.
New Mexico is turning out to be Arizona with better food.
they're all around me in suburban red hell. do not want to be here.
I'm sure they're all fine upstanding Xtians who attend church 3 times a week.
absofuckinlutely
As Al Franken often says, if you took everything out of the new testament about our obligation to care for the poor and weak you'd end up with a nice box to store your weed in.
It really does make you want to cry.
Did someone say "soylent green" yet? Because the after the first million starve- we can feed the rest! Problem solved.
Needz moar Placenta Helper from Kraft. Or a goiter stew recipe. Or steamed Trucknutz with fondue.
I find it really hard to snark on hungry kids…..Focus Baconz, focus…..
Well, it's a step in the right direction to cure childhood obesity.
On the other hand, snaCking on hungry kids is relatively easy as long as there's a McDonald's to steal salt, pepper and ketchup packets from….
What happened to the Vincent Price Curry. Oh is this it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bhIKhGOjc4&
Actually . . . no it's not, unless you're a GOPer. People with SNAP benefits can afford fresh vegetables and fruit, rather than highly processed, high-fat, low-nutrient foods. So, you'll just have to try again with the snark at the poor kidz, baconz. . ..
With the temporary majority in the House the Repubs decide to go public with naked class war–hell with being subtle, the poor should starve.
And here, we thought it was all about the jobs.
Men will never be free until the last Republican senator is strangled with the entrails of the last Republican congressman.
Time for revolt!
AS LONG AS WE INVALLEYDATE THAT SOCIALIST NIGRAS COMMIE LIB'RAL DEMOCRAT POLICIES I AINT TO AFEARED CUZ JESUS WILL ALWAYS TAKE CURE OV HIS PEEPLE!!!!!!!1111!one!11
PASS TEH CHEETOS!
This is a jolly way to support the troops and create jobs.
Support the Troops = support making money off the troops and war
And nevermind that so many military families rely on foodstamps just to survive.
Much like wal-mart employees.
Thumbs up for using "jolly" in June. Jingle hells!
Simon Legree is now running third in GOP straw polls, trailing only Donald Trump and No One.
GOP replaces food pyramid with an empty plate. Hope those fuckers all choke to death at their next fundraising dinner.
I hope they all get botulism. And e-coli.
"Democrats are aggressively pushing back at the cuts that they argue constitute an attack on the poor."
There they go again with their food SCAREcity claims!
Just keep yer hands offa my oil depletion allowances!!!! Caviar futures will plummet without them.
Well I woke up this morning
On the wrong side of the bed
And how I got to thinkin'
About all those things you said
About ordinary people
And how they make you sick
And if callin' names kicks back on you
Then I hope this does the trick
Cause I'm a sick of your complainin'
About how many bills
And I'm sick of all your bitchin'
Bout your poodles and your pills
And I just can't see no humour
About your way of life
And I think I can do more for you
With this here fork and knife
Eat the Rich: there's only one thing they're good for
Eat the Rich: take one bite now – come back for more
Eat the Rich: I gotta get this off my chest
Eat the Rich: take one bite now, spit out the rest
Don't worry. All the middle class rubes in this part of the good old USA are still regaling themselves with anecdotal evidence that food stamps are used to buy t-bone steaks and filet mignon. Seriously. I got subjected to this the last time I was stuck in a Tahoe full of them. I really need to get out of here.
I bought some land in New Mexico for when it got too hard to live here in Nevaduh. Silly fucking me.
Can we please make time to ridicule these motherfuckers today? Srsly.
http://www.yaf.org
Equal parts NAMBLA and Koch brotherly love
"Countering Liberalism on Campus"
Oh jeezus kryst.
Exactly.
They helped bring Star Parker (gov't welfare recipient, to think tank welfare recipient), Alan Keyes (affirmative action beneficiary/"Republicans need a black dude"), & Robert Novak (lizard person) to my college to speak. I don't know if alumnus & John Birch scion Robert Welch, Jr., gave them a reach-around though.
Everyone on that site looks completely unaware that there are actual poor people all around them.
Ew. I clicked on that and immediately that rape-apologist dimwit Ben Stein is shaking his flabby jowls at me. Are the conservatives really hurting that hard for spokespeople? I don't think anyone under 30 has even seen Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
good lord and he's still doing the damn Bueller routine – but now for Randroids so there's absolutely no entertainment value….
The YAFers are proto-trolls. They've been doing this since the days of Bill Buckley.
The GOP Nat'l Convention in 2000 took place in Philly when I was living there. Besides being a total weird circus where the GOP tried to make it seem like they were this big tent party embracing minorities (srsly, the floor vote on Bush's nomination was like an Up With People routine), one of the highlights for me was a YAF protest outside the convention hall where they were handing out syringes with bright green labels that said HEY, GOV. RIDGE! GIVE A PUSH FOR JUSTICE – EXECUTE MUMIA!
That didn't go over well with the pro-Mumia protestors.
Stay classy, guys.
Ann Coulter at DePaul University? Sounds liberal to me, letting the transgendered speak at a private university.
This is overblown. With most poor people now non-paying their bills online, hardly anyone uses stamps anymore.
What have the poor done for us besides get killed for oil?
Congratulations Junior, you are a success because after reading this, you've pissed me off, made me yell, and ask why in the hell the shit stain, tin foil hat wearing asshats Republicans are so hell bent on fucking with the people who built and run this country.
I have no snark this morning. Monday we honored those Americans who died for this nation – today our leadership issues it's latest "fuck you people" declaration.
Ken, hire Wonkette Jr. and let him post his picture and name. He/she is a good, honest, capable and witty person.
US Congress: Fuck you. I'm sure this comment will piss off downfister douchebag so I'm off to Brietbart's website to incite an electronic riot.
Rareit!
The country should have a shortage of lamp posts soon.
If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding.
How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?
If you don't beat yer meat, you can't have any pussy!
How can you have any pussy if you don't beat your meat?
The real draconian part of it is that the food stamps will be placed at the bottom of a pool filled with Moray Eels.
Sharks with frickin laser beams.
Why would the Repugs care, they get a steady diet of Koch.
Is Swedish a hard language to learn?
Just speak English backwards.
Yumpin' Yimminy.
Did you watch The Muppet Show when you were a kid? You'll be fine.
So, while many Christian Republicans would proudly declaim their disdain for the Theory of Evolution they would at the same time proudly embrace Swiftian/Randian Social Darwinism? While most of them fetishize fetuses in their angry war against abortion rights and many of them are even suspicious of birth control they nonetheless feel comfortable turning their backs on all those babies once they're born? Well I say go Republicans, Go! Fuck us until all the fence-riding moderates and independents get it.
Yeah, it's kinda hard to envision all these "Albert Einsteins" coming about if they won't teach a science class without mentioning Adam or Eve.
John Boehner has announced that the federal debt ceiling won't be raised until more of the undeserving poor are starving he the streets.
Let me see if I've got this straight. The "Seen at Walmart" crowd, the owners of the Freedom Trays, the addict-victims of the high fructose corn syrup, these are the ones who support a move to get the govt to stop spending ON FOOD? I'm having a hard time getting a firm grip on this. I think I'll go back to rubbing one out. I had a good grasp on that, at least.
'…the aid would be contingent on work or job training…'
"… so people, head to China, Honduras, etc… and get some friggin' job training if you want to eat!"
I'm with Aerosmith on this one- EAT THE RICH!
Actually I believe it was Motorhead.
Aerosmith, Motorhead, British Lions, Krokus, Fozzy. You choose.
LEMME!!!!
The GOP just hates the fact that, unlike a proper third-world country, in America the poor can eat and get some health care, and don't starve to death or die whenever they get sick, as happens in civilized countries unlike the socialist nations of Europe and much of Asia.
GOP 2011: "A chicken in not every pot"
More taxes. Hmmmm…funny that.
Feeding people isn't as expensive as feeding Lockheed Martin.
But feeding Lockheed is much more important. Keep your priorities straight!
the aid would be contingent on work or job training.
It's about fucking time all those shiftless disabled veteran children put in a day of hard fucking work. Send the lot of them to the salt mines.
Ahhh…I get it now…this is their roundabout way of addressing the problem of jobs? By telling people to get them? weeping….
Luckily, salt is something New Mexico has in abundance. Unfortunately, this is where they store trans-uranic waste. Wait, maybe not so unfortunate, since forcing the poors to work in close proximity to nuke waste should hasten their deaths, to cancer, thereby lessening the need to feed them…
"and the aid would be contingent on work or job training"
That's rich! There are no jobs to train for because the wealthy sent them overseas where they can get away with paying in bowls of rice and avoid environmental restrictions. I'm sure they're going to demand that recipients test for drugs next, too.
I was once a job coach in a summer job between semesters. A number of Hispanic women were displaced when their jobs assembling rifle scopes were terminated when the factory was sent overseas. It was my job to find them new work and job training. Some of these women had been doing this work for over twenty years and all they had known was assembling these little parts into scopes. My final recommendation as my summer job ended was to eliminate my position because it was a joke to pay me to do the impossible. There was no hope of finding them any new jobs doing anything like what they had been doing because whatever I found them or trained them for was just going to be sent overseas like their last job. This was in 1982! It's not gotten any better since.
According to a story on NPR last week, some of the southern states are experiencing a manufacturing renaissance. Companies are moving jobs back from China and Third-World countries because wages in these states are now competitive. One owner that was interviewed said that they noticed that products that were advertised as Made In The USA saw a 30% higher sale rate.
Of course, the interview came to crashing halt, when it was pointed out that the employer was paying it's employees 8 bucks an hour with no benefits.
But they provided profit-sharing which for a 10 year time period equated to an extra 20,000 paid out to employees. Per employee. For the entire 10 years.
I think the WIC program should be the first to go, because you know those moms with their kids take that WIC check and buy huge slabs of steak, right? Oh, they can only by cans of tuna fish? Forget that! Let them buy tuna on bogo like the rest of us.
I swear this Republicans watched A Christmas Carol and missed the point of the whole second half of the movie. We know they don't read books.
They thought it was a tragedy, not a tale of inspiration and hope. Poor Scrooge, being bothered like that!!!
We haven't seen anything yet, darlings. By Friday, these succubi will announce their boldest plan yet: The Haiti Option.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22902512/ns/world_new...
Killing the poor increases jobs! At least in the undertaker business. Clever entrepreneurs will drive around collecting bodies for cash, others will sell the dead for meat like in Russia http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article... …
For all this, I have not completely given up hope on our leaders in Washington, DC. This guy is onto something:
http://meetu.ps/1x0FD
I think in the Republicans' Bible, they've edited the Beatitudes down to only the last one. The others seem a bit inconvenient to the standard GOP and Fundy approach to life. Thinking they are persecuted for their religious beliefs, however, fits right in.
Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Let's not even get into the whole feed the hungry, clothe the naked, heal the sick, etc.
See. This is how it is. Ya got yer sheep and on the other hand ya got yer goats. Pretty simple really.
Their Bible doesn't have any of those pussy Beatitudes. They only like the Parable of the Talents, certain parts of Leviticus, and all the wrath stuff. They loves them some divine wrath.
Blessed are the cheesemakers?
But what does "blessed are they" even mean? It could mean, "God will take care of them, so I don't have to give a shit." Or it could mean, "their suffering enhances their spirituality, so suffering is good." If you're going to argue with Oligarch-duped Fundies, you better come armed with more direct Biblical instructions to stop fucking with the poor than the Beatitudes.
“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’
Jesus says: "Fuck you, burn in hell Republican assholes".
That's right….those on his LEFT. DUH.
If Americans get the government they deserve, what the fuck did we do to deserve this? How do we make it go away? Because I've tried voting, organizing and snarking. Can I say 50 freedom rosaries and pray for Paul Ryan and Dick Cheney to be caught doing a Tony Danza on Reagan's grave?
Because of a quirk in the electoral college system, we get the government the red states deserve.
Like you, I did my job the last election and will continue with the next one. Do freedom rosaries come with hail marys?
Gah, it's the beginning of hurricane season and I have no snark. My bad.
For most of forty-two years now, I've wondered why the fuck I get the government they deserve.
Because a vast majority of people have been indoctrinated into believing that their vote does not count. Nothing in Washington will ever change. One party is as bad as the other.
And now, the Republiklans want to implement a voter ID system which will further discourage new voters.
Soon, we will have a government that 5% of the public actually voted for.
Have the GOP members of Congress been reading Jonathon Swift? Oh dear what am i saying, the GOP doesn't read.
They must have seen it on an episode of Veggie Tales.
If they made it through college I'm sure Cliffs notes and greek house test files had a lot to do with it.
Maybe they watched this? http://youtu.be/Yf0LH8FtHAc
There's no justice, there's just us.
Reagan was right. I'm tired of these welfare veterans driving around in their cadillacs while I have to work and pay taxes.
Get out there and get to work you lazy bums. The Messicans don't have any trouble finding jobs!
Hungry kids dodging handgun violence getting rote facts crammed into their otherwise creative heads is a recipe for a really screwed-up country.
I predict 15 years from now we will refer to this crop of the future as the "lost generation".
Thanks Republicans. Oh and you too, short-sighted capitalist-tool Teabaggers.
I thought Arizona would be the first to go full blown Malthusian on us and starve out the old and weak, but now New Mexico is threatening to up the wingnut ante. Arizona's next move should be work camps and debtors prisons.
Due to climate change and the concomitant drought, there's virtually no water in New Mexico rivers anyway. Maybe they can catch a landshark.
Candygram!
If nobody's on food stamps, nobody's poor. WINNING, motherfuckers.
The Republicans want long bread lines to jack off to, me thinks.
I'll entertain other explanations, but that's the only obvious one I can think of.
Let them eat Koch!
Cheer up, Ralph Reed is making a comeback! After having successfully gotten the taste of Pat Robertson's goober out of his mouth and replacing that with the taste of Jack Abramoff's goober and nearly getting that taste out of his mouth he is now smooching Koch Goober (although he won't name his financial backers) and is again thrilling tens of people with his Flag, God and Freedom snake oil seminars. This smarmy piece of shit won't give up until someone drives a stake through his flinty little heart. Amazingly, the sheeple still show up and smile adoringly like good Stepford Wives while he spins his dark fantasies about his special vision for America. I am just about ready to give up on this Country.
I had the dishonor of meeting Ralph Reed during the 2000 Iowa Caucuses. If evil has a human form, it is Ralph Reed.
Shaking his hand, I could hear the cries of a million tortured souls.
how are they going to spin this, Jesus wants death panels? Can Repukes at least stop with the mythical BS that we're the richest nation on earth with the best standard of living etc?
GOD does not give us any more than we can handle. GOP…"suck it up weaklings."
These conservative fucks should do away with food stamps completely and issue armaments to the poor instead, so they could enjoy their second amendment rights. That might prove interesting.
The repubs–ensuring that all fetuses are born so that we can all watch them starve.
Given the fact that most people on food stamps work but are still poor, that motto should really be:
I WILL TEACH YOU TO FISH THEN GIVE YOUR FISH TO MILLIONAIRES. AFTER ALL, THEY DESERVE FISH MORE THAN YOU FOR BEING RICH.
I already know how to fish, but I'm allergic to fish. Delicious irony.
"It’s time that disabled veterans and near-death seniors and dumb impoverished schoolchildren stop living the high life and start appreciating that freedom isn’t free. "
No it's time for vets and seniors and women to stop voting for Republicans just because they're white guys who wear flag pins and talk about Jesus. Sorry I'm out of snark.
Fine….trucknutz.
Next up: GOP announces plan to save government money by shooting the homeless (and anyone else they can find). Cheney named chief gun czar.
You can never go overboard while ranting at assholes.
Snark aside, I think it would be nice if the food stamp program were run like Oregon's WIC (Women and Infant Care) program, which only allows real food to be bought. I used to be a general store owner in Eastern Oregon and it was discouraging to see that well over 90% of my food stamp sales were for junk food; chips and the like. Then again, if the idea is to poison all the recipients, I guess it's working.
That's fine, unless you live in a food desert.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert
Since you're talking Arizona… they realize that these people on food stamps are (elderly, disabled, possibly veteran) citizens, right? And not illegal immigrants?
They don't; in fact one of the teabaggers' big complaints about food stamps (and other government services) is that so much is "wasted" on "illegal" immigrants who don't spend into it, even though undocumented aliens don't get any benefits and do pay taxes.
Let them go hungry. Let them get desperate. Then you will see how a revolution comes. I am in awe of the great socialist recruitment program called the Republican Party.
Yeah. It's a real head scratcher on their thought processes. And with minorities bound to out pace the white population in this country within the next 30 years, they seem to be doing everything they can to alienate them.
But they seem to think they can gain the African-American and Hispanics vote in this country by sticking to their wedge issues like same-sex marriage and abortion.
People that have no food, whether or not gays can get married is not their biggest concern.
Please allow me to explain/apologize:
The Editorial board at the Albuquerque Journal and our local Clear Channel/AM radio hatemonger wield a disproportionate amount of influence in state politics. It is because of them that these couple hundred morons on the NMI comments page make the state sound like Arizona. We elected this PalinLite/teabagger insane governor who wants to convert all public schools into private prisons, on top of this abortion of a "budget-cutting measure" she just signed, and use the savings to subsidize strip mining and the aforementioned private prison industry.
I would think that only Montana would be a worse state to try this kind of shit.
[large per capita foodstamp-receiving population] x [barely any capita] = ?
I did clicky to the article, discovered that the leg is eliminating a state supplement to SNAP (still chickenshit, but), and then made the mistake of reading a few comments. What a bunch of self-righteous, fact-free, inhumane drivel.
To be marginally fair to the NM government, if I read the article correctly, they are eliminating the state supplement to SNAP, which, e.g., has made the minimum payment $25 per month per person, instead of the Federally-mandated minimum of $16 per month.
An analytical note: This means the supplement is $9 per month per minimum recipient. Or, about $100 per year. If we make the assumption that the supplemental amount is the same for all, the NM leg is gonna save the state a whopping half a mil by pulling a small prop from under about 5,000 oldz / disabledz.
…reading the comments in the New Mexico forum where the poor and disabled are dismissed as unworthy and simplistic, knee-jerk solutions are paraded out, just makes me depressed…sorry no snark today…
Are there no soup kitchens? And the dumpsters – are they still in operation? Oh, from what you said at first I was afraid that something had happened to stop them in their useful course. I'm very glad to hear it.
Geeze, can't all you lib-tards see the truth:
It's all these impoverished, hungry children/seniors that are DESTROYING AMERICA.
WHY DON"T THEY GET A JAWB???!!!1111!!
Love all the comments on the site about big, fat fatties buying steak and chips with the food stamps and then pulling out cash for beer and ciggies. I've seen plenty of people who work for a living, sometimes even at a couple of part-time jobs who qualify for food stamps. They're not living la vida loca and lying around drinking and watching television. If they're lucky enough to get a few hours off, they're either taking care of kids or sleeping.
Bah, I hate the GOP
Proving once again that the Republican party has its priorities in order: Line your pockets, put the tab for everything on the saps and fuck the poor, a lot of money has been spent making sure the fuckers don't vote. If the bubbas ever snap and realize what these folks have been doing to them in their Lords name, it will make the French revolution look like an ice cream social at a Methodist church. They will be bowling with severed heads for years. I hope I'm not around for it.
Ah Wonkette. Headlines like the Onion's, only they're true!
Sob.
Soak the rich! In fava beans….mmmm….
A Modest Proposal to let the poors starve. Thanks Daddy Warbucks!
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