'I'm Eating Once A Day': Congress' Food Stamp Cuts Hit Wisconsin Seniors Hard

[CrusaderFrank]

Obama twice threatened to withhold Social security checks, not a peep from the Prog Collective

 

[Socialist]

Obama twice threatened to withhold Social security checks, not a peep from the Prog Collective

You assume actual progressives support Obama, a corporate supporting moron.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Obama twice threatened to withhold Social security checks, not a peep from the Prog Collective

You assume actual progressives support Obama, a corporate supporting moron.

And by Progressives you mean Socalists, right

 

[Socialist]

Obama twice threatened to withhold Social security checks, not a peep from the Prog Collective

You assume actual progressives support Obama, a corporate supporting moron.

And by Progressives you mean Socalists, right

Not at all, but any progressive, if they had any sense, would be able to see that Obama hasn't done much that's progressive.

 

[dblack]

This is the shit that happens when people decide that "MUH FREEEEEDUUUUM" or some hogwash is more important then actually helping seniors, children, low income families.. but then again, most of us know that the GOP only cares about the extremely wealthy, democrats are just as guilty, but at least they throw out a bone..
I m Eating Once A Day Congress Food Stamp Cuts Hit Wisconsin Seniors Hard - Continued here

To take advantage of this "heat and eat" scheme, Wisconsin had been automatically signing up all SNAP applicants for $1 of heating assistance a year. When Congress said states couldn't increase food stamp benefits based on anything less than $20 in heating assistance, 11 of the 15 states affected boosted the amount of heating assistance they were giving out. Wisconsin went the other way, implementing the cuts on a rolling basis for new SNAP applicants and for existing enrollees when it came time to recertify that they were still poor enough to qualify.

The Congressional Budget Office estimated last year that the heat-and-eat cut wouldsave $8 billion in federal spending over 10 years, roughly 1 percent of SNAP spending over that period. The CBO's economists projected the cut would affect 850,000 Americans.

Beals said she was unaware of ever having signed up for heating assistance. The notification letters sent out by the Wisconsin government simply announce that the state is increasing its estimate of a person's income because his or her utility expenses went down.

She gets by on $956 a month in Social Security payments, Beals said, so losing more than $100 in nutrition assistance has been a big hit to her budget, causing her to fall behind on other bills. She said she's disabled, suffering from fibromyalgia, diabetes and severe migraines. She's been receiving SNAP, which in Wisconsin is called FoodShare, for the past three years, she said. She lives in an apartment at her daughter's house, she said, and doesn't have her own utility bill.

"This isn’t good for me. I’m eating once a day," Beals said. "I would love to be able to pay my bills, but I couldn’t because the FoodShare thing made everything start to fall apart."

Freedom sucks!

 

[CrusaderFrank]

LOOOOL. If we want to be honest with ourselves, North korea is a totalitarian theocracy, Cuba after the castro's took over, now, don't run at facts, but cuba's healthcare improved, as did food intake, housing, infant mortality, etc, etc, Yes, cuba isn't perfect, but compare it to capitalist Haiti.

Yes, Cuba is a paradise. That's why so many of them die floating on a raft 90 miles across the Caribbean trying to get to Miami.

Bullshit, complete and utter bullshit. Sure, some people are leaving cuba today, but more are fleeing capitalist haiti. None the less, the only ones who left cuba were the losers in the revolution, the wealthy landowners and such, and the MAJORITY OF CUBANS WANTED TO KILL THEM. They supported the castro's. Cuba isn't perfect, but the improvements after castro for the majority are factual.

So basically Fidel turned Cuba into Detroit; from prosperous and civilizated into a Third World hellhole and for all the same reasons: socialism sucks and fails 100% of the time

 

[HenryBHough]

Amused.

Reading all these liberal whines about the poor old folks but not a single offer to take one of them into their very liberal home and show them how live should be lived in a true People's Republic.

Not a ******* one.

 

[BluesLegend]

Amused.

Reading all these liberal whines about the poor old folks but not a single offer to take one of them into their very liberal home and show them how live should be lived in a true People's Republic.

Not a ******* one.

Liberals talk shit but you won't see them stepping up to lead by example, most libs I know are cheap ass bastards who don't even tip.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Sudden influx of sock accounts

 

[williepete]

I've said this before as have many others.

If socialism were so great for America, it would have been in place 100 years ago and would be humming right along to this day without a hitch. Everyone would be happy and rosy cheeked, well fed children would play on crime free streets. All would be sweetness and light.

But socialism has a very different face and bloody hands. I've had the honor of speaking at length with refugees from communist China, Cuba and North Korea. Don't need to reinvent that blood soaked wheel.

Whenever some snake oil salesman wants to pitch a 'new' and revolutionary system of social collectivism that will cure all the ills of the human condition, ask them why it wasn't done earlier and why it isn't in place now.

You'll be deafened by the sound of crickets.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Socialists always have to lie about how they'll make things better when all they give a **** about is seizing power over unarmed citizens aka slaves, or fertilizer

 

[dblack]

Fight the power

 

[williepete]

Socialists always have to lie about how they'll make things better when all they give a **** about is seizing power over unarmed citizens aka slaves, or fertilizer

In today's America where the deadliest afflictions of poor people are obesity, diabetes or diet and/or smoking induced heart disease, it's hard to push the 19th century theories of a quack who never worked a day in his life. Poor people in America have cars, cell phones, air conditioning, cable, free food and housing. Not exactly the textile mill hovels of 1840's England.
Poverty and Obesity in the U.S.

If you had been on the street corner in 1930 preaching socialism, I might have bent a John Steinbeck-ish ear to your rant. Your argument may have persuaded me given the conditions of the time. But in today's America, you've got to work pretty hard throwing away opportunities to be poor unless you are you are afflicted with a mental illness or a gender studies major.

In today's America, if you're pushing socialism you're either a power craving psychopath who has no problem lining dissenters up against a wall to be shot or a lazy bum who wants free stuff. Or like the above, you are afflicted with a mental illness or a gender studies major.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

This is the shit that happens when people decide that "MUH FREEEEEDUUUUM" or some hogwash is more important then actually helping seniors, children, low income families.. but then again, most of us know that the GOP only cares about the extremely wealthy, democrats are just as guilty, but at least they throw out a bone..
I m Eating Once A Day Congress Food Stamp Cuts Hit Wisconsin Seniors Hard - Continued here

To take advantage of this "heat and eat" scheme, Wisconsin had been automatically signing up all SNAP applicants for $1 of heating assistance a year. When Congress said states couldn't increase food stamp benefits based on anything less than $20 in heating assistance, 11 of the 15 states affected boosted the amount of heating assistance they were giving out. Wisconsin went the other way, implementing the cuts on a rolling basis for new SNAP applicants and for existing enrollees when it came time to recertify that they were still poor enough to qualify.

The Congressional Budget Office estimated last year that the heat-and-eat cut wouldsave $8 billion in federal spending over 10 years, roughly 1 percent of SNAP spending over that period. The CBO's economists projected the cut would affect 850,000 Americans.

Beals said she was unaware of ever having signed up for heating assistance. The notification letters sent out by the Wisconsin government simply announce that the state is increasing its estimate of a person's income because his or her utility expenses went down.

She gets by on $956 a month in Social Security payments, Beals said, so losing more than $100 in nutrition assistance has been a big hit to her budget, causing her to fall behind on other bills. She said she's disabled, suffering from fibromyalgia, diabetes and severe migraines. She's been receiving SNAP, which in Wisconsin is called FoodShare, for the past three years, she said. She lives in an apartment at her daughter's house, she said, and doesn't have her own utility bill.

"This isn’t good for me. I’m eating once a day," Beals said. "I would love to be able to pay my bills, but I couldn’t because the FoodShare thing made everything start to fall apart."

If they're anything like my 75 year old mother thats about all they eat anyway.

 

[Socialist]

Socialists always have to lie about how they'll make things better when all they give a **** about is seizing power over unarmed citizens aka slaves, or fertilizer

Keep telling yourself that McCarthy wants you.

 

[Socialist]

Socialists always have to lie about how they'll make things better when all they give a **** about is seizing power over unarmed citizens aka slaves, or fertilizer

In today's America where the deadliest afflictions of poor people are obesity, diabetes or diet and/or smoking induced heart disease, it's hard to push the 19th century theories of a quack who never worked a day in his life. Poor people in America have cars, cell phones, air conditioning, cable, free food and housing. Not exactly the textile mill hovels of 1840's England.
Poverty and Obesity in the U.S.

If you had been on the street corner in 1930 preaching socialism, I might have bent a John Steinbeck-ish ear to your rant. Your argument may have persuaded me given the conditions of the time. But in today's America, you've got to work pretty hard throwing away opportunities to be poor unless you are you are afflicted with a mental illness or a gender studies major.

In today's America, if you're pushing socialism you're either a power craving psychopath who has no problem lining dissenters up against a wall to be shot or a lazy bum who wants free stuff. Or like the above, you are afflicted with a mental illness or a gender studies major.

Karl marx never held a job? He was a journalist, first of all, and I guess you can't provide one of the most accurate critique's of a economic system if you're not holding a company now? What kind of logic is this? Personal attacks on Marx do nothing to his actual works, it's pathetic you would stoop that low.

 

[Socialist]

Socialists always have to lie about how they'll make things better when all they give a **** about is seizing power over unarmed citizens aka slaves, or fertilizer

In today's America where the deadliest afflictions of poor people are obesity, diabetes or diet and/or smoking induced heart disease, it's hard to push the 19th century theories of a quack who never worked a day in his life. Poor people in America have cars, cell phones, air conditioning, cable, free food and housing. Not exactly the textile mill hovels of 1840's England.
Poverty and Obesity in the U.S.

If you had been on the street corner in 1930 preaching socialism, I might have bent a John Steinbeck-ish ear to your rant. Your argument may have persuaded me given the conditions of the time. But in today's America, you've got to work pretty hard throwing away opportunities to be poor unless you are you are afflicted with a mental illness or a gender studies major.

In today's America, if you're pushing socialism you're either a power craving psychopath who has no problem lining dissenters up against a wall to be shot or a lazy bum who wants free stuff. Or like the above, you are afflicted with a mental illness or a gender studies major.

Refer to my signature also, and yeah, I'm sure obesity is a horror on senior citizens these days, and also, not like junk food is cheaper then healthy food or anything...

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Socialists always have to lie about how they'll make things better when all they give a **** about is seizing power over unarmed citizens aka slaves, or fertilizer

Keep telling yourself that McCarthy wants you.

McCarthy and his HUAC blacklisted Zero Mostel, right

 

[Rexx Taylor]

Socialists always have to lie about how they'll make things better when all they give a **** about is seizing power over unarmed citizens aka slaves, or fertilizer

right, all they want is everything handed to them. whenever i go to cape cod in the summer, i am pretty sure i see estates owned by liberals who bought them "With Our Money" !!!

 

[Socialist]

Socialists always have to lie about how they'll make things better when all they give a **** about is seizing power over unarmed citizens aka slaves, or fertilizer

Keep telling yourself that McCarthy wants you.

McCarthy and his HUAC blacklisted Zero Mostel, right

You'd probably be his best friend with all of your bullshit fear mongering.