I wonder the same thing about goverment workers
Posted on 06/22/2013 3:39:34 PM PDT by neverdem
But the same elected officials will vote for amnesty..
Looks as though Boner got “boned” by his own folks. Now they should move ahead, have a caucus meeting and elect a new Speaker.
Halt the Food Stamp TOTUS.
The show is about to start.
I just hope you all are happy now that those 300+ pound WalMart folks are going to starve to death.
I seriously doubt that, not if they want to keep their jobs. Check out The Cabal That Quietly Took Over the House.
Almost three quarters of them are in safely conservative districts. Their main worry is being primaried.
Progs always want to dictate everything else about what we do and consume...They can start by rewriting what is and isn’t eligible for purchase with OUR money...
Households CAN use SNAP benefits to buy:
Foods for the household to eat, such as:
— breads and cereals;
— fruits and vegetables;
— meats, fish and poultry; and
— dairy products.
Seeds and plants which produce food for the household to eat.
In some areas, restaurants can be authorized to accept SNAP benefits from qualified homeless, elderly, or disabled people in exchange for low-cost meals.
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Soft drinks, candy, cookies, snack crackers, and ice cream are food items and are therefore eligible items
Seafood, steak, and bakery cakes are also food items and are therefore eligible items
Since the current definition of food is a specific part of the Act, any change to this definition would require action by a member of Congress. Several times in the history of SNAP, Congress had considered placing limits on the types of food that could be purchased with program benefits. However, they concluded that designating foods as luxury or non-nutritious would be administratively costly and burdensome.
http://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/retailers/eligible.htm
reread this part...
“However, they concluded that designating foods as luxury or non-nutritious would be administratively costly and burdensome.”...
in this computer day and age, I’m calling a big fat “BULLSH!T” on this one
The liberals will spin this that Republicans want to literally take food out of the mouths of children. I can just hear Rachel Maddow and the MSNBC crowd saying this. Since I know exactly what they will say, there’s no need to watch their programs.
Why are there some heavy poor people in America?
Are you bitter? You sound like a Democrat / moocher.
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Is that a joke?
Who in God's name with an IQ over 70 watches that channel, ever?
I think it was tongue in cheek, not a bitter moocher.
Stein’s Law: If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.
“Sustainability” is a concept the left loves to scold the rest of us about. But when the left dreams up a scheme or program, it is never “sustainable” economically. Liberal ideas are only “sustainable” where liberals can also manipulate the results or subsidize them in ways that hide their full costs.
Government welfare programs are a case in point.
Spending in such excessive amounts beyond income is not “sustainable”. A some point government will either become exhausted by the effort to sustain the level of outrageous spending. When economic reality returns, there will be clueless and slackjawed reaction by both supporters and those who have carelessly become dependent upon the program. Wailing, weeping and gnashing of teeth will commence. Major scapegoatting will begin in earnest. Indeed any reason will do except the plain truth.
It is simply not healthy for the character of the nation to have government replace private charity with a government entitlement. This could be solve at any minute by crafting a fully refundable tax credit for donations to approved social aid charities. Indeed, I am willing to wager that the tax credit doesn’t have to be 100%, I bet it could be less than 75%. Charities could compete for people to help, as long as there was a registry of total aid given to every recipient. Charities would enable direct connection between aid providers and recipients. Recipients who needed more could justify more. This would put an end to the “you owe me” mentality that is so corrosive among the recipients.
But there is no power to be derived from this by government, lovers of big government, the collectivists, and the welfare pimps. That is why it has never been talked about.
I know a kid who is going to college and works at a Kroger store. He says that when the frozen snow crab legs come in, the folks with the “food stamp” cards come out of the woodwork and buy them all up.
Let us hope that you are not right. The economic and social damage of amnesty is not even in the same league with the farm bill.
If the Democrats truly believed this way, Obamacare would never have had a chance.
exactly.
They’ll have absolutely no problem in taxing the hell out of these same items
I wonder the same thing about goverment workers
In 2008, a mere 14 senators and 109 House members voted against overriding President George W. Bush’s veto of the farm bill.
Archer Daniels Midlands is sad....
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