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House approves $40 billion cut in food stamps for the poor
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| Sep 19, 2013
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Posted on 09/19/2013 3:48:39 PM PDT by mdittmar
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To: Patriot Babe
Don’t be ashamed. You paid into it. Plus, you’ve been trying to find work, and aren’t one of the abusers. God bless you, take care. I hope you’re employed soon.
Do what talk show host Larry Elder’s dad did. Go sit at unemployment, tell them you’ll be there everyday until you get a job, and then take anything. I know it’s hard. My roomate is over 60, and has given up because of age discrimination.
Best wishes!
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posted on
09/19/2013 4:31:39 PM PDT
by
oneamericanvoice
(Support freedom! Support the troops! Surrender is not an option!)
To: Lancey Howard
Fire up the gas chambers! Someone is off the plantation!
To: mdittmar
The bill's savings would be achieved by allowing states to put broad new work requirements in place for many food stamp recipients and to test applicants for drugs. The bill also would end government waivers that have allowed able-bodied adults without dependents to receive food stamps indefinitely.From http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3068878/posts
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posted on
09/19/2013 4:34:19 PM PDT
by
RightGeek
(FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
To: kingu
Again, many, many people in cities do not have access to cooking facilities or food storage.
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posted on
09/19/2013 4:35:15 PM PDT
by
kabumpo
(Kabumpo)
To: kingu
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posted on
09/19/2013 4:36:48 PM PDT
by
nascarnation
(Democrats control the Presidency, Senate, and Media. It's an uphill climb....)
To: mdittmar
it also says $4 billion
There is a reporting discrepancy of a factor of 10
There were back to back threads....... $4 and $40 billion
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posted on
09/19/2013 4:38:45 PM PDT
by
bert
((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Travon... Felony assault and battery hate crime)
To: mdittmar
I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty of the general government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit. A prevalent tendency to disregard the limited mission of this power and duty should, I think, be steadfastly resisted, to the end that the lesson should be constantly enforced that, though the people support the government, the government should not support the people.
The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. This has been repeatedly and quite lately demonstrated. Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character, while it prevents the indulgence among our people of that kindly sentiment and conduct which strengthens the bonds of a common brotherhood.
-Grover Cleveland
How far we have fallen...and, this was a Dem.
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posted on
09/19/2013 4:43:12 PM PDT
by
Kaosinla
(The More the Plans Fail. The More the Planners Plan.)
To: Gabz
Yes what you are referring to is TANF - temp assistance for needy families.
A station here in Indy got an electronic file of where Indiana TANF card swipes were made. Vegas, Disney (Fl and Ca), Hawaii, Nevada brothels, yadda yadda.
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posted on
09/19/2013 4:44:23 PM PDT
by
nascarnation
(Democrats control the Presidency, Senate, and Media. It's an uphill climb....)
To: nascarnation
Yes, I aware of that. My point is that there is more than one type of benefit on the EBT card, and many people are totally unaware of that.
The abuses of what is now called TANF funds is just more obvious because it can be electronically tracked - but anyone who doesn’t think welfare checks went to those type things in the past needs their head examined.
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posted on
09/19/2013 4:49:56 PM PDT
by
Gabz
(Democrats for Voldemort.)
To: mdittmar
Bad timing, bad priority, bad PR. Instead working on defunding obamacare, they decided to deal with food stamps?
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posted on
09/19/2013 4:55:07 PM PDT
by
paudio
(Liberals teach Whites about guilt and shame better than Christian churches do...)
To: oneamericanvoice
True, that’s why I said “some.”
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posted on
09/19/2013 4:55:59 PM PDT
by
Huskrrrr
To: paudio
There will always be “bad PR”.
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posted on
09/19/2013 4:59:23 PM PDT
by
mdittmar
To: mdittmar
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posted on
09/19/2013 5:03:20 PM PDT
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
To: mdittmar
Of course, but this makes it even easier for the msm and dhims to smear the Republican.
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posted on
09/19/2013 5:04:15 PM PDT
by
paudio
(Liberals teach Whites about guilt and shame better than Christian churches do...)
To: mdittmar
Fantastic comment about the 5 percent cut in food stamps.
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posted on
09/19/2013 5:11:49 PM PDT
by
kitkat
(STORM THE HEAVENS WITH PRAYERS FOR OUR COUNTRY.)
To: Adder
NO ONE will have to be cut off if they would reinstitute limits on what can be purchased.Exactly. This "thing" turned into a wholesale fleecing of the taxpayer; cry me a river that I don't give a damn that the precious snowflakes actually have to tighten their belts like I have been doing.
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posted on
09/19/2013 5:12:06 PM PDT
by
Ghost of SVR4
(So many are so hopelessly dependent on the government that they will fight to protect it.)
To: bert
The Headline has changed again,doesn’t matter,every local paper in the country will run the original in tomorrows newspaper,because it from Reuters.
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posted on
09/19/2013 5:12:18 PM PDT
by
mdittmar
To: mdittmar
Fantastic comment about the 5 percent cut in food stamps.
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posted on
09/19/2013 5:12:28 PM PDT
by
kitkat
(STORM THE HEAVENS WITH PRAYERS FOR OUR COUNTRY.)
To: Monty22002
Yeah, theres so many jobs out there too.Then cut back to mad dog 20/20 then. We're all making sacrifices in this full blown recovering obama economy.
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posted on
09/19/2013 5:13:32 PM PDT
by
Ghost of SVR4
(So many are so hopelessly dependent on the government that they will fight to protect it.)
To: oneamericanvoice
As I have said to others on this thread, not everyone is a scammer. There are many who need FS to survive. Im glad you were never in that position. But there are seniors, students, people who havent been able to find employment who need this. Thankfully it wont pass the Senate. In the meantime, the Dems scored big. Whos boo-freaking-hoo now? I can't believe you have been here so long and are such a complete idiot, must be a sleeper dumpster kiddie.
The PROBLEM is government and the lazy voter who want's shit for free. The "general welfare" in the Constitution wasn't so "students" could kick their feet up and check out womyn's studiez nor was it for seniors who couldn't foresee having to actually support themselves when they were too old to work. Likewise, food stamps are not a given, they come in part from the labor I do to EARN wealth, wealth which is stolen from me by the federal government.
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posted on
09/19/2013 5:22:48 PM PDT
by
Ghost of SVR4
(So many are so hopelessly dependent on the government that they will fight to protect it.)
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