Democrats name their price on ending government shutdown

[Lisa558]

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Democrats do what they do. Their TDS is is great it blinds their eyes and their thinking. The tax paying People are not included in their decisions.

They’re also just stupid. I just explained to that libtard that thr SNAP leeches should have diverted their “soda and junk food” purchases to building a reserve fund, and he asks how would they have money to build a reserve fund. I just told him!

 

[IM2]

I was once a life and health insurance agent. I saw how the game was run. Stockholders got rich while people were denied coverage. The premiums went up every year. But as usual, the self-centered American right doesn't mind harm done to people just as long as it is not them. Who made the deadline is irrelevant. The relevant thing is that most Americans like Obamacare. And the people put in office are supposed to represent all the people, not the 30 percent of the self-centered assholes on the right. We don't need to go back to people paying premiums for years, then when they need the service, they get denied.

 

[Lisa558]

I you need government assistance to provide food you don't have the luxury of reserve. It's very interesting that that's a concept you don't seem to grasp.

And what you don’t grasp is that these people have the luxury of buying soda and junk food! If they have money to waste like that, they have money for a reserve supply.

 

[BULLDOG]

Dems set the date for the subsidies to expire with no republican votes, and now, like most dems, they don't want to be held responsible for their own decisions. They're trying to place the responsibility on republicans, and have their propaganda machine in high gear.

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Repubs shut the government down with no Democratic votes, and now, like most repubs, they don't want to be held responsible for their own decisions. They're trying to place the responsibility on Democrats, and have their propaganda machine in high gear.

 

[Lisa558]

I was once a life and health insurance agent. I saw how the game was run. Stockholders got rich while people were denied coverage. The premiums went up every year. But as usual, the self-centered American right doesn't mind harm done to people just as long as it is not them. Who made the deadline is irrelevant. The relevant thing is that most Americans like Obamacare. And the peope put in office are supposed to represent all the people, not the 30 percent of the self-centered assholes on the right. We don't need to go back to people paying premiums for years, then when they need the service, they get denied.

^^^ OMG…..he was an insurance salesman.

 

[IM2]

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Democrats do what they do. Their TDS is is great it blinds their eyes and their thinking. The tax paying People are not included in their decisions.

You're the one with TDS. You and every other trump sperm guzzling MAGAT in this country.

 

[BULLDOG]

In other words, if the GOP doesn't cave to Schumer's demands, the Dems think they can shift the blame for the continued shutdown on to the GOP.

Wanna take any bets on how many Republicans give in?

No shift involved. Repubs shut the government down.

 

[forkup]

They’re also just stupid. I just explained to that libtard that thr SNAP leeches should have diverted their “soda and junk food” purchases to building a reserve fund, and he asks how would they have money to build a reserve fund. I just told him!

You explained that you somehow think getting SNAP benefits means you somehow have extra food to last a month. It's the same disconnect Marie Antionette had with her famous let them eat cake comment.

 

[OKTexas]

Okay...so if the Republicans pass something (or if the Democrats were to pass something), the party that is in the minority is supposed to just accept whatever is passed? Really? On what planet have you been living your entire life where this WAS EVER THE CASE!???? We’ve had this system in place since the 1790’s. The House passes a bill, the Senate votes on it. Then there is reconciliation and a bill is sent to the White House.

What has happened is that the House passed a bill and left town. They’ve been legislatively out of session for about a month and half now. In the pre-blob era, law makers negotiated. They’re scared to do that now because of the blob and folks like yourself who want zero compromise.

Yeah, the republicans passed a bill to continue existing spending levels, no partisan additions or subtractions. Why would the Schumer crew object?

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[Lisa558]

You explained that to you somehow think getting SNAP benefits means you somehow have extra food to last a month. It's the same disconnect Marie Antionette had with her famous let them eat cake comment.

The money these people have thrown away on soda and junk food over the past six months would have indeed been enough to pay for a month’s worth of basic food.

 

[Seymour Flops]

Yep, and the voters put a pretty evenly split Congress (both the Senate and the House) in place. The DEM Senators are demonstrating the consequences that their voters wanted. To stall the GOP cuts.

Every Senator and Representative won their respective votes of their constituents.

WW

But, the DEM are not stalling the GOP cuts. They have effectively cut nearly the entire government.

They are trying to force Republicans to reverse their cuts by holding the Democrats contituents hostage.

 

[OKTexas]

Liar.

LINK?

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[Seymour Flops]

Yes because people chose to not have health insurance because they are irresponsible. Funny though how many after ACA came to be all of a sudden became less irresponsible. I'm sure those things are unrelated.

I'm not sure if you are this detached from reality or simply gaslighting.

Many of them were so less irresponsible that they got policies without even knowing it!

 

[forkup]

And what you don’t grasp is that these people have the luxury of buying soda and junk food! If they have money to waste like that, they have money for a reserve supply.

I'm pretty sure it's cheaper to go to McDonalds and get junk food than get a nutrious meal so there's that.

SNAP is a subsistence level benefit, which means people will go as cheap as possible, in the US sadly enough, that means junk food more often than not.

 

[OKTexas]

Repubs shut the government down with no Democratic votes, and now, like most repubs, they don't want to be held responsible for their own decisions. They're trying to place the responsibility on Democrats, and have their propaganda machine in high gear.

Poor thing, can't come up with anything original? The dems are making the shutdown about the ACA subsidies, when they alone set the expiration date.

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[Rawley]

And you would rather they were in perpetuity?

That's what your cult was demanding.

You do know that Democrats didn't have filibuster proof majorities, right?

So there was at least tacit agreement from the republicans.

Nope. Subsidies were part of the Green Scam that was passed via reconciliation, 51 majority vote, your Goddess Kamala casting the tie breaking vote.

Try less ignorance.

 

[Lisa558]

I'm pretty sure it's cheaper to go to McDonalds and get junk food than get a nutrious meal so there's that.

SNAP is a subsistence level benefit, which means people will go as cheap as possible, in the US sadly enough, that means junk food more often than not.

Excuses, excuses.

McDonalds is a small fortune for a family. It would be cheaper to buy a pound of beef and a bag of frozen veggies.

But SNAP people are spending almost 10% of our money on soda, another 7% on frozen prepared food (like those overpriced Stouffers), and another 7% on prepared desserts. If SNAP only provides for a subsistence level, how are they spending almost a quarter of our money on these unnecessary, and UNHEALTHY, items?

https://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/ops/SNAPFoodsTypicallyPurchased-Summary.pdf

 

[Rawley]

No shift involved. Repubs shut the government down.

You sound like a ******* idiot with that propaganda

 

[Mac-7]

Not when it comes to healthcare apparently. Health spending per capita

ObamaCare has caused healthcare costs to go up

 

[Seymour Flops]

I'm pretty sure it's cheaper to go to McDonalds and get junk food than get a nutrious meal so there's that.

SNAP is a subsistence level benefit, which means people will go as cheap as possible, in the US sadly enough, that means junk food more often than not.

That's not true at all.

They trade SNAP bennies for junk food because it is more convenient to simply open a package and eat, and because they have learned to eat this way.

Beans and rice should be the staple of any low-income person's diet. They are very cheap and very nutrient dense. If bought dry by the bag, they are pennies per meal. I once worked part-time for two years, with a stay-at-home wife, so I could complete a college degree. At that time, we had four boys and a girl on the way. We ate a lot of beans and rice.

With B&R taking care of caloric needs, fiber, protein and hunger, our remaining grocery money was spent on salad veggies, heavy on the raw spinach, one of the most vitamin and mineral rich foods you can eat, tomato paste for making sauces, spices to flavor everything, and either chicken or ground beef. Oatmeal and eggs for breakfast. The only place where we didn't skimp was bread.

The main ingredients: willingness to spend the time preparing these meals, and willingness to forego the non-nutritional food that SNAP recipients are encouraged to purchase.

Are their meals that are healthy AND easy? Not as healthy as what I describe above, but much healthier than Hot Cheetoes and Hawaiian Punch. Lunchables and a variety of frozen meals come to mind. Microwaveable meals.