Summary
House Republicans are considering a 20% cut to SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) benefits, impacting over 22 million households, as part of a $5 trillion deficit reduction plan.
The proposed changes to SNAP would save $247 billion over a decade by rolling back a Biden-era increase tied to the USDA’s “thrifty food plan.”
Critics argue the cuts could harm vulnerable populations and reduce demand for food production, while Republicans view the changes as a way to curb spending and encourage employment.
Because starving the poor has historically always worked out for the wealthy…
…and I’m sure all the people that suffer from this will be blaming the motherfucking DEMOCRATS if/when this comes to pass.
Well yeah, they shoulda had a majority to prevent it! It’s all their fault! /s
Conservatives believe you have it too good and that makes you lazy. They promise to make life harder as a way of motivating you to work more.
My son got $150/mo for SNAP. His SSDI got raised by $75/mo so they reduced his SNAP by $75. Not sure what it is down to now after the new increase.
I don’t know if the Republicans have any idea of how to deal with what is coming when it comes to the job market. If software eats the world, AI will eat software…and even all the “good” jobs will soon be scarce to nil - turns out even the “creative” jobs can and will be automated. As expected, the C-suite stuff could be some of the easiest stuff to automate, but that’s not where they are going to start eliminating jobs, as you can well imagine. I think some people - myself included - thought that things like trucking and mining would be reduced to basically zero jobs first. But they are shooting for things like writers, animators, software developers, basic lawyer stuff, tax preparation, and it’s quite possible those jobs will be most impacted first. So telling your kids to level up on skills? Well, you can fuck right off with any of those skills unless you have a massive pile of money, too.
How are we going to determine how to distribute all the wealth being created when jobs are increasingly going to disappear? We have been playing musical chairs all this time and now the music stops, and it just means that more and more wealth is accrued by dipshits like Elon, while everyone else is kicked harder?
I wonder how long the broligarchs really think that will last? These assholes are building bunkers for a reason, and it’s because they know full well the guillotines are going to come out if this reaches what looks to be an obvious conclusion.
Encourage employment? Do these people think you can somehow live off snap? It doesn’t pay for rent, transportation, cooking utensils, napkins, toilet paper… Anything bit uncooked foods. If you want to cut the money needed for snap, increase minimum wage so they make enough money to pay living expenses while working.
They want you to get a 2nd job, they want you working one extra shift whenever you can.
You work three jobs? Uniquely American, isn’t it? I mean, that is fantastic that you’re doing that."
To a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005
- George W. Bush
He said that 20 fucking years ago, and the qons have not changed since. America, where you can work your fingers to the bone to get by, isn’t that a beautiful thing?
Right, because THAT’S where the untold billions of dollars are going. Not the defense and weapons spending
Well, we also have billionaires in this country, when that should not even be a thing. It’s time to Make America Great Again, and tax these fuckers at 92%. Like the 1950s.
Does anyone even believe in deficits anymore? Like even the rubiest of rubes have been watching trillions of dollars worth of weapons flow out with no debate whatsoever.
If you starve to death because you voted for Trump, it’s your own damn fault
Great idea. Take away from those that have nothing, should work out just fine.
The world is 9 meals away from anarchy
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People on snap barely get anything as it is. What a shitty thing to do.
This is short sighted.
Hungry folks’ anger knows no limits. They have nothing to lose and everything to gain.
Yeah but under the current misinformation curve the people who rely on government support the most will direct their anger at those that are trying to help them.
Well, if they let people like Alex Jones take a dump in their skull on the regular, they can be led to believe that Big Government Liberals/World Economic Forum/Bilderburgs/Freemasons/The Trilateral Commission/The Jews are laying plans to have them to own nothing and eat bugs and/or give up the mass consumption of meat and dairy or whatever the heck the crazies like Alex are telling them these days.
So they vote for donvict because “he’ll fight the deep state and the globalists”…and what will they end up with as a result? They’ll end up kicked even harder by austerity measures.
I mean, this is from the people who want to gut the benefits of individuals they trained to be killers.
That’s where the part of declaring martial law on day 1 comes into play.
And the rich are really tasty.
Empty calories though
Republicans considering cutting SNAP benefits as part of
deficit reduction planhurting the poorsThey don’t give a shit about harming anyone.
In fact, they revel in it. Wallowing in the pool of poor people’s tears, ahhhhh so so good.
They do give a shit. It’s their entire goal.
Aggravated crime rates are down in the U.S.
GOP: Hold my champagne
since when do they give a fuck about the deficit?
oh, right. it’s their battle cry when they’re trying to hurt (the ‘right’) people by cutting essential services.
then they pat themselves on the back as they cut taxes for the wealthy by far more than was ‘saved’.
First, the Two Santas strategy dictates, when Republicans control the White House they must spend money like a drunken Santa and cut taxes to run up the U.S. debt as far and as fast as possible.
This produces three results: it stimulates the economy thus making people think that the GOP can produce a good economy; it raises the debt dramatically; and it makes people think that Republicans are the “tax-cut Santa Clauses.”
Second, when a Democrat is in the White House, Republicans must scream about the national debt as loudly and frantically as possible, freaking out about how “our children will have to pay for it!” and “we have to cut spending to solve the crisis!” Shut down the government, crash the stock market, and damage US credibility around the world if necessary to stop Democrats from spending money.
This will force the Democrats in power to cut their own social safety net programs and even Social Security, thus shooting their welfare-of-the-American-people Santa Claus right in the face.
reduce demand for food production
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There’s another name for that.
Well, prices are so high because too many people are demanding food. Let some starve to death, boom, less demand and lower prices. Get two birds stoned at once. The second bird being MAGA reveling in other people’s suffering.
Let them eat cake.
Wait until they find out the SNAP program (aka food stamps) is run by the Department of Agriculture because it’s about increasing demand for agricultural products, not helping the poor. For comparison, TANF (aka welfare) is under the Department of Health and Human Services.
It’s going to be a crazy administration as they randomly wail, fight with each other, piss off their donors.
Right, it’s not just the poor lobby that cares about snap. The farmers rely on it a a form of price support. Large landowners have better lobbyists than the poors.
Do you want Luigis?
'cuz this is how you get Luigis.
