Hadenough wrote:
If people want to eat they can go to work, plenty of jobs for those WILLING and WANTING to work.
Wow, really? OK, well I tell ya what. When you're ready to climb out of your time capsule, be prepared because this isn't 1975 anymore. After 40 years of deregulation and stagnant wages, 30 years of outsourcing and 10 years of automation things are very different. All those jobs Trump keeps gloating about? They're sh*t jobs. And I don't mean they're jobs people don't want to do, I mean they're jobs that don't offer a living wage. So today "getting a job" might not be enough. Which is why today, unlike 1975, most of the people asking for food stamps ARE working.
In fact, McDonalds and Walmart have both been caught telling their underpaid employees to apply for food stamps, which is why they've been charged with turning SNAP into their own subsidy program.
Maybe if the retarded Republicans can for once adjust their tack and actually take the side of the American worker instead of ALWAYS siding with the "business" the workers might actually find jobs that can actually pay for their food. BTW, another change since 1975 is that company founders on average don't even control their business anymore, investors do and those investors may or may not even be American.
Hadenough wrote:
Granted there are those deserving of assistance, key word “assistance” too many are using it as a lifestyle.
I have seen the welfare abuse firsthand working in the food industry for many years at the grocery store level.
That really doesn't tell me anything. What, you look at a black woman at the cashier counter digging stamps out of her purse and you say... "this must be her lifestyle" ???
And so what if it is? What does it matter to you? Are you the judge of all your customers? Maybe her son has leukemia and after the medical bills there isn't any left out of her paycheck to cover food. Maybe she's already making as much as her skills and time will allow and maybe her son's leukemia isn't going away tomorrow, so yeah... that would make food stamps a lifestyle.
Look, I know I'm climbing all over your grill, just keep in mind it's more that I'm reacting to a common mind set... "just get a job"... 'Not the first the first time I've heard that reaction. And the personal experience dealing with recipients of government aid? Yeah, a million times.
So, please don't take it personally.
Anyway the point I'm making is that it's too easy to misjudge. It takes effort to be accurate and when you talk about taking food away from people... I just think it deserves that effort.
So... if you want to weed out the recipients of government aid, who are not critically dependent on that aid ( ie., the deadbeats and players) you need to spend more. You need to hire auditors, good auditors to make that effort. Human Services gets a better picture. They can target the cutoffs and minimize the genocide. Next year the president submits his budget, SNAP is cut by 23%...
after paying for those auditors.
Just slashing the budget and justifying it with impulsive judgements?
I mean, it's the cheap way to do it...
Hadenough wrote:
When you rely on government for your livelihood you have succumbed to their control.
yeah, so?
when you rely on a corporation for your livelihood, the same thing happens.
hell, when you rely on your own obsession for your livelihood, the same thing happens.