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

[Kritic]

Don't whites on average get more food stamps than blacks?

yes they do that's why i said this

plan will starting taking effect where there's most waste ie the "urban areas".

 

[Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson]

Don't whites on average get more food stamps than blacks?

blas get nighty puhcent uh food stamps. da otha thurdy puhcent go to ileagle imagrins frum messico.

 

[Morph]

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

What ever happened to separation of church and state?

Obesity and "hunger" aren't necessarily opposed to one another, even if sometimes they are. Also, only about 1/3 of Americans are obese, not 70%.

69% of Americans over 20 are overweight. Many of those will be obese as they get older unless they get fit. Either way, they will be a burden on the health care system. Why should tax payers have to bear that burden?
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/overwt.htm

I'm almost convince liberals are borderline sociopaths.

FIXED THAT FOR YOU.

Who else votes for keeping poor people in a perpetual state of living in public housing and on foodstamps? Liberal policies reinforce the status quo.

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.

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.

How is it logical that automatically giving people free food and housing is going to motivate them to get out there and get a job? There really is no way to prove that is there?

You want to talk about putting everything on the table? Why not put an end to ALL welfare? There was a candidate in 2008 and 2012 that advocated for ending all government subsidies and removing ALL taxes and putting the money back in your pockets, because it's your money and YOU should do whatever you want with it...

Spoiler

But more than half of you voted for the guy that keep's George Dubya's policies in tact.

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...And what's more, it doesn't work.

The only crime here is that our government has spent over 15 trillion dollars in the 50 years since it declared the war on poverty. 15 trillion dollars which it stole from tax payers. And what does the government have to show for that?

Roughly 15% of Americans live in poverty today in 2013.
In 1965, roughly 15% of Americans lived in poverty.

15 trillion dollars, and NOTHING changed. If that isn't the real crime here then I don't know what is.

The truth is that most of these social programs that subsidize people's living are a failure. They don't get people out of poverty. They don't improve people's living conditions. Giving people free stuff for decades hasn't motivated people to work. If anything, it's probably had the opposite effect: complacency.

15 trillions dollars later, we're right back where we started from. 50 years of liberal policies and all we got was virtually 0% change in the poverty rate. The war on poverty is a monumental failure. It would be a crime to call it anything else but.

Nobody that is libertarian has ever been poor. Like ACTUAL poor, not "Well I guess I have to eat ramen while earning my useless poli-sci degree" poor.

Are you sure? Ron Paul was born during the great depression to immigrants. Just saiyan...

make posts about how people going hungry will be good for them brehs

So your solution is to spend another 15 trillion dollars and pray that the war on poverty plays out differently in the next 50 years? People are going hungry because they don't have meaningful work, not because the government isn't feeding them.

So ppl complain about there tax dollars paying for food stamps but never say a word about the free lifetime healthcare that these already wealthy congressman and women receive.

Why not end all subsidies for everyone and let people decide what to do with their money?

the real legalized theft is capitalism

Well, in America we don't have capitalism anymore, we have corporatism. Corporatism is legalized theft. Actually, it resembles extortion more than theft, but I guess they're the same thing?

 

[NZA]

and that's fine that you feel that way, its when you initiate force against some one else to take from them and give to another that you cross the line. Your doing a wrong to do a right, which robs of you of your moral high ground.

was it force when they were taxed to pay for the public infrastructure or the millitary?

 

[MostReal]

my boy Dr. Claud Anderson spoke about this too


keep thinking its a game. these guys are trying to kill us off breh
dude said by 2015, black folks will be starving to death in the U.S. and that if you look over the world black folks are dying at alarming rates already.

 

[CrimsonTider]

Food stamps is the best economic stimulus there is

Secondly, no one ever complains about corporate welfare

 

[Fillerguy]

More and more Americans are facing hunger while 70% of us are obese? Something doesn't make sense here

America's getting richer and richer yet most of the money is at the top %10. Dont believe that hype, numbers can lie.

 

[Domingo Halliburton]

Don't whites on average get more food stamps than blacks?

depends how you look at it. I think like half are children. If you look at adults, it's blacks. Twice as many Democrats as Republicans.

but forget all that. Food stamps are the best stimulus out there especially for a recovering economy like ours.

 

[DEAD7]

was it force when they were taxed to pay for the public infrastructure or the millitary?

Yes.

Food stamps is the best economic stimulus there is

Secondly, no one ever complains about corporate welfare

Libertarians do all the time.

Corporatism is probably the biggest problem in this country, since it encourages the sense of entitlement, which opens the door for more socialism.

 

[NZA]

Yes.



Libertarians do all the time.

Corporatism is probably the biggest problem in this country, since it encourages the sense of entitlement, which opens the door for more socialism.

is there an alternative that wont result in us living in an underdeveloped wasteland?

 

[DEAD7]

is there an alternative that wont result in us living in an underdeveloped wasteland?

capitalism that isnt over-regulated.....

 

[NZA]

capitalism that isnt over-regulated.....

so you think you could start from scratch with no public infrastructure investment and make a decent society?

 

[DEAD7]

so you think you could start from scratch with no public infrastructure investment and make a decent society?

Yes.



Sound crazy? I hope so cause that's exactly what early Americans did...

 

[CrimsonTider]

Yes.

Sound crazy? I hope so cause that's exactly what early Americans did...

lol

You do realize the model was based on not paying the employees.

 

[NZA]

Yes.

Sound crazy? I hope so cause that's exactly what early Americans did...

early americans had little freedom. they came here to work in compounds, many as indentured servants, they were starving, literally eating their own pawgs out of desperation, and turning on each other until the natives gave them free food and taught them how to live. once they got their weight up, they ramped up their slavery, genocide, and theft. you want america to return to those roots?