Posted on 04/08/2018 10:24:53 PM PDT by caww
Lawmakers are poised this month to wage a major battle over the House version of the Farm Bill, which will call for work requirements in the federal food stamp program that serves the poor. ( the vast majority of Farm Bill funds spending is on food stamps)
Democrats are staunchly opposed to Conaway’s plan to add a 20-hour work or job training requirement for some able-bodied recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the formal name for the food stamp program............In the 2014 legislation, SNAP’s 10-year cost was $756 billion, or 80% of the entire $956 billion bill.
The federal government requires 20 hours of work for able-bodied food stamp recipients, but most states are able to waive the requirement.
The next Farm Bill would end the waiver allowances.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
The Democrats are upset because if these people are working, they would be available for a staged protest.
Umm if you are able bodied why are you on food stamps at all?
Go get a damn job.
And what happens when they have definitive proof of the millions that have absolutely no concept of any form of the English language and have no way of proving that they’re in this country legally.
Best thing they could do is offer all of them a chance to come forward, state their immigration status, “volunteer” that their demon spawn are giving up their ridiculous and fraudulent, birthright citizenship, give them $5000 and send them home.
Whoa!!!, give them $5000!!!! Are you a f**king idiot? No. I’d rather give them $5000 to leave than pay for them and their chain migration family members for a lifetime. Be cheaper.
I also think we need to definitively address the cycle of government dependence that starts with teenage pregnancy. Whereas I want to support stay at home moms, I think that is just not a viable option when dealing with multiple-child teen pregnancy with the expectation that the government will take care of you via welfare payments.
I would be in favor of mandatory work/training requirements that are linked with child-care. I would much rather government money go to pay for daytime childcare (with education and nutrition in safe environments) than to have it go to subsidize a recurrent cycle of single parent teenage pregnancies with welfare dependence and little hope or motivation to make a better life for the children.
Watch closely, as Senator Ben sASSe spins his Midwest bullsh*t to make certain that the farmers’ jaw lock on the federal tit remains firmly in place.
1.3 TRILLION dollar Omnibus? NO WAY, JOSE!
1 TRILLION dollar Farmers’ welfare - HELL, YEAH!
And, of course, the “senior” senator from Nebraska - Deb Fischer - will lead the way to secure yet another butt rape of the American non-farm worker.
Both of these two political bullsh*t artists work to ensure that their leveraged-up-the-wazoo AG constituents continue to have their land-greedy asses subsidized and protected from market price fluctuations, and to, at diverse times, pay them to NOT grow crops!
All these “gifts” will of course come from the wallets of the “other” American taxpayers - those of us less fortunate suckers whose jobs don’t rate to partake of FDR’s welfare ponzi scheme.
How abput lets stop government paying to feed poor people.
Government is not your daddy. Work, eat. Fair. All the working people work to pay for their food.
Welfare luxury state needs to be dismantled. And I say luxury because for many who have zero skills and ambition, theres no incentive for them to ever quit or want to stop receiving free money comfiscated from working people who are doing their best to be self-sustining.
It isnt too much to ask grown-ass adults to be self-sustaining and responsible for themselves.
End all the welfare except for the genuinely disabled and for messed up veterans.
I thought Slick had passed something like this (Workfare?) in between screwing interns.
If anyone knows how they are doing it I would like to know.
Personally, anyone getting a free ride by having tax money extorted from hard working people are a waste of human flesh.
People extorting a free ride by having tax money taken from the sweat of a working person brow, is guilty of slavery, as is the government and politicians who enable them
“The federal government requires 20 hours of work for able-bodied food stamp recipients, but most states are able to waive the requirement.”
Is that 20 hrs a week, month, year, lifetime?
week
OK, it wasn’t listed in the article.
I recall everyone working through 1962 or 63. Once LBJ unloaded his laundry list of “Great Society” programs/handouts this crap all started. LBJ added and added to FDR’s “welcome to the promised land” BS. Certain people threw out their shovel, sat on their ass and smoked a camel.
I have seen people at Sams Club snack bar pay with Foodstamp card. Think this happened under Obama.
Democrats against someone working? Say it isn’t so. You’d think they’d want everyone to work so that they could get their union dues if they joined one. Screw the non-union workers - they’re deplorables and expendables.
Boy have they got a surprise coming in the Supreme Court. Now if only Ginsburg would die tomorrow. That would make Tax Day a little bit better.
Seriously? We still have Obamacare, no wall and regular chuck n Nancy deals.... not to mention more anti-gun laws. Poor things they must be exhausted from rolling in all their liberal cash.
I have never understood why this is in the farm bill- should be on its own the welfare bill.
One would think that politicians were trying to fide what they are doing /heavy sarcasm
I have never understood why this is in the farm bill- should be on its own the welfare bill.
One would think that politicians were trying to hide what they are doing /heavy sarcasm
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