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.
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
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.
If you want to reduce the size and scope of the Federal Government. You have to have a strategy, you can't just lash out. The Democrats helped here, because they didn't want a work requirement.
The GOP, being the Stupid Party, has no strategy, has no set of priorities.
The number one attack on the GOP is that it's the party of the rich and big business. That's the perception. So, if you had a strategy to reduce the size and scope of the Federal Government, your first target would be corporate welfare, no food stamps for "starving people".
You go through the entire Federal Budget and eliminate all subsidies and at the same time introduce a flat ccrporate tax rate. Eliminate subsidies, grants, tax advantages, etc., etc., etc.
That's what you do first.
The bottom line is that it was never a "farm" bill. It was another stealth welfare bill with a minuscule "farm" issue attached.
Too many working net-tax-paying Americans got wise to the scam.