Republicans Try to Cut Food Stamps as 15% of U.S. Households Face Hunger

[godkiller]

doing whats best, is always going to look like whats "right"...

promising to feed every child, doesnt give any incentive to not have children one cant afford...

Most importantly, black people are disproportionately poor. I want the government to think of better ways to help poor blacks. I don't think starving them out of having children helps black people. In fact I know it doesn't. That just further reduces our number while helping white numbers, since most whites are middle class.

 

[DEAD7]

I am not in the business of trying to starve poor people into not having children. Like I said, I was once poor. My mother worked her way up and even today she isn't where she wants to be, but things would be harder without support. The poor need happiness too.

Making people responsible for themselves and those they bring into this world isn't starving anyone...

and if you truly feel that way you should be donating most of your income to charity, not trying to take money from others to pay for those down on their luck...

 

[DEAD7]

Most importantly, black people are disproportionately poor. I want the government to think of better ways to help poor blacks. I don't think starving them out of having children helps black people. In fact I know it doesn't. That just further reduces our number while helping white numbers, since most whites are middle class.

Its hard to see, but the help being provided to blacks it whats keeping them down...

Its an extremely f*cked up situation, where we now feel we need the chains.

 

[DEAD7]

The poor need happiness too.

Not at the expense of others...

 

[Shogun]

bet most of those hungry people got IPhone 5's

 

[¯\_(ツ)_/¯]

Nothin like hunger to get a man movin.

I'm almost convince libertarians are borderline sociopaths.

 

[Spin]

How is it logical that automatically cutting food stamps is going to "force bums to get a job"? There is no way to prove that. Another outcome could be that these same people will come into your house looking for food while you're worried about saving a few dollars.

While we're talking about cutting funding, why don't we put everything on the table? All the money that we shell out to a few select defense companies is the biggest welfare plan going. We have no problem giving billions to Wall Street when they already have billions. Oh wait they have the lobby to convince us the world would end if we didn't.

I'm totally against people taking advantage of the system, but don't act like that doesn't happen in everything. You can find some anecdotal evidence to support any cause.

 

[Kritic]

is @DEAD7 a troll? i've not been around here long to read ppl. i get thrown off when someone with a black pic posts this bullsh1t...

 

[Kritic]

How is it logical that automatically cutting food stamps is going to "force bums to get a job"? There is no way to prove that. Another outcome could be that these same people will come into your house looking for food while you're worried about saving a few dollars.

While we're talking about cutting funding, why don't we put everything on the table? All the money that we shell out to a few select defense companies is the biggest welfare plan going. We have no problem giving billions to Wall Street when they already have billions. Oh wait they have the lobby to convince us the world would end if we didn't.

I'm totally against people taking advantage of the system, but don't act like that doesn't happen in everything. You can find some anecdotal evidence to support any cause.

if someone doesnt think this world wants to wipe out black ppl off the face of the earth they're either ignorant or stupid. or lying. the worst thing about it iis black ppl don't look at it that way. which makes the process move even faster.

"where my reparations?" no reparations for you sir. that will make your situation better. this thing isn't designed to make your situation better. it's designed to make it worse.


cut off all these stupid azz programs. we don't need them. lets talk reparations.

 

[Black smoke and cac jokes]

asdf @DEAD7 a troll? i've not been around here long to read ppl. i get thrown off when someone with a black pic posts this bullsh1t...

He's one of those people who started of being an insightful poster but noticed that he didn't get the recognition he wanted so he started trolling instead.

Food stamps are not only distributed to people that don't have job but EVERYONE who doesn't have a sufficient amount of income to provide for your family. Therefore, the argument that people will get lazy and not find a job because of it is ridiculous.

 

[The Real]

I am not in the business of trying to starve poor people into not having children.

This is how I feel, too. Modern reasons for cutting social services usually emerge from an implicit or explicit conflation of poverty with criminality. In many streams of free market discourse, poor people are to be punished for their poverty, as if that will magically set into motion a causal chain that will lead them to prosperity (or remove them from the picture in a social Darwinian manner.) Prisons right now are filled with people like that.

And what's more, it doesn't work. The only thing that really slows down birth rates to reasonable (in the sense of within one's means) amounts is an increase in education and attendant quality of life.

 

[88m3]

Infographic: Stop Slashing SNAP
By Sarah Baron and Melissa Boteach | September 16, 2013

See also: 30 Years of Tackling Hunger on a Bipartisan Basis Is in Danger of Failing This Fall by Erik Stegman and Nicole Williams

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/poverty/news/2013/09/16/74122/infographic-stop-slashing-snap/

 

[the cac mamba]

Anyone care to tell me how this is doing Gods work?

they have the ability to help people, but they choose to stand by and do nothing?

 

[Chris.B]

How is it logical that automatically cutting food stamps is going to "force bums to get a job"? There is no way to prove that. Another outcome could be that these same people will come into your house looking for food while you're worried about saving a few dollars.

While we're talking about cutting funding, why don't we put everything on the table? All the money that we shell out to a few select defense companies is the biggest welfare plan going. We have no problem giving billions to Wall Street when they already have billions. Oh wait they have the lobby to convince us the world would end if we didn't.

I'm totally against people taking advantage of the system, but don't act like that doesn't happen in everything. You can find some anecdotal evidence to support any cause.

how will the bums survive of they have no food stamps to look forward to? Sit down and starve?

 

[You Win Perfect]

I am not in the business of trying to starve poor people into not having children. Like I said, I was once poor. My mother worked her way up and even today she isn't where she wants to be, but things would be harder without support. The poor need happiness too.

its pretty sad that the "middle class" is just as greedy and selfish as the 1%. Anybody agreeing with purposely starving people has serious issues. More reasons why this country will continue to crumble, there's no unity. The States of America is a more fitting name for this country.