Candy, jphelan has provided us the perfect teachable moment. He doesn't even care if it includes the word able-bodied. All he cares is that is called reform. He doesn't stop to ask the most basic questions. Is this a good or bad reform? Does this reform make things better or worse? Does this reform even address a real problem? As long as it is called reform, he is on board.
BTW nice to see you again jphelan. It is has been awhile.
The real Trumper viewpoint is that EVERYONE on ANY kind of public assistance for EVEN A BRIEF PERIOD is a lazy, worthless bum. Therefore, debating the details of the SNAP program with them is pointless. They think it should be abolished altogether.
I guess that's why so many people are attracted to conservatism. It apparently endows you with the ability to determine who deserves to live and who doesn't.
I do burst out laughing, though, when any Republican talks about the money that slashing benefits will save. These are the same people who want to piss away some $25 billion on Trump's wall--roughly five times the amount that will be saved with Trump's SNAP benefits cuts.
Our Trumpers are far too stupid, apparently, to understand that a so-called "able-bodied" person may not be able to find work, for any one of a number of reasons. Mark mentioned the obvious difficulty of finding work when you don't have a place to sleep or shower, don't have a phone number, can't afford transportation, etc. etc. etc. there are also various physical and mental conditions that could prevent an ostensibly "able-bodied" person from working, or at least make it extremely challenging to find and hold a job.
It all comes down to simple compassion and human decency. I have those things, and they don't make me noble; they make me a human being. But Trumpers lack them, and that makes them something much less than human.
Der Fuhrer ---What it comes down to is if you can't find a job for 20 hours a WEEK for 3 months out of 36 months than you are not trying. This is just one of the government programs needing to have the fat cut off of them. The money saved is not earmarked for the wall -so quit with that bullshit. Assistance for a brief period is not the focal point of the reduction of benefits - it is the long term freeloading that is targeted. You are the one that is too stupid.
David, Kevin's looking for free shit. Working 90 hours a year means that the shit isn't free.
In today's news-https://finance.yahoo.com/news/usda-says-strong-jobs-report-supports-cutting-food-stamps-184317976.html
Originally posted by: Boilerman
David, Kevin's looking for free shit. Working 90 hours a year means that the shit isn't free.
I'm not on SNAP benefits, and you have not the slightest goddamn idea of what I'm "looking for."
I explained to you how you've gotten more free shit in your lifetime than someone on SNAP for 100 years would get. But I guess you're OK with that, because, well, the recipient was YOU.
Once again when faced with facts he don’t like, Kevin says the facts don’t count.
Case me on point, Kevin was bragging about the Obama economy & upon finding out the facts don’t fit his narrative, he changes his tune.
Originally posted by: tom
Once again when faced with facts he don’t like, Kevin says the facts don’t count.
Case me on point, Kevin was bragging about the Obama economy & upon finding out the facts don’t fit his narrative, he changes his tune.
This message is brought to you buy the guy who used to preach anything below 3% GDP was awful...As is presidents who play golf.
And this message is brought to you by undisputable facts - as in telling the truth....
https://www.facebook.com/StephanieMMHamill/videos/806105046501889/----Check this out - the reality of the SNAP fiasco
