SNAP benefits about to be cut off -- and she don't like it

[Frankenstein]

No tax dollars no food stamp money going to pay for the ballroom, nice strawman, SJW whine rant!

 

[Frankenstein]

 

[SweetTea]

Maybe they don't want to see ANYONE going through that.

I can see that such a thought didn't even occur to you, in your war. No surprise there.

Right, that thought didn't occur to me because these are many of the same folks that dog whistle the killing of influential people with whom they disagree. I can assure you that they couldn't care less if everyone getting these benefits had voted for Trump. It is all politics for them and putting on a show that they care so much about people.

 

[berg80]

Then why is the Looney left crying the loudest?

Maybe those are the voices in your head you are hearing.

 

[MagicMike]

No. If you want to make more than minimum wage, you need to take responsibility to obtain the work ethic, skills, experience and know how to be worth more than that to an employer. Or you can go into business for yourself which also requires work ethic, skills, experience and know how as well as what products and services others will voluntarily pay you to provide.

Labor is a commodity and cost of doing business as much as anything else. The employee who cannot generate profit to cover costs of doing business plus a reasonable profit for his/her employer is dead weight and will usually be let go. Certainly he/she will not be worth more money.

Nobody owes any of us a living. In a free society, others should not ever be required to participate or contribute to our welfare but each should be required to earn what they have to the best of his/her ability.

Good people will always voluntarily participate or contribute to the welfare of the truly helpless in our society. But otherwise, as the Bible ways, he who will not work, let him not eat.

The utopian scenario you imagine is known as the Horatio Alger myth. They teach about it in college level American history classes.

https://owlcation.com/humanities/horatio-alger

 

[MagicMike]

How much are you willing to pay at the checkout counter so those employers can afford to pay a lot more?

Good point. Probably cheaper just to fund welfare programs.

 

[MagicMike]

How much are you willing to pay at the checkout counter so those employers can afford to pay a lot more?

Good point. Probably cheaper just to fund welfare programs.

 

[MagicMike]

What's the monetary value of the work?

That should be determined by the workers. If the job offers what the worker needs to live on then the employee accepts the terms.
If not they look elsewhere including government assistance.

 

[Foxfyre]

The utopian scenario you imagine is known as the Horatio Alger myth. They teach about it in college level American history classes.

https://owlcation.com/humanities/horatio-alger

They teach about it in high school economic/poli sci/history classes, maybe even middle school, too. Then and now.

And good education also teaches reading comprehension and critical thinking so that people will know that the economic principle has nothing whatsoever to do with the Horatio Alger myth.

 

[hadit]

Good point. Probably cheaper just to fund welfare programs.

No, it's not. Paying higher prices keep more people working and fewer non-workers dependent on those who are working. Think.

100% getting welfare - where does the money come from to pay them?
100% working - no need for welfare, correct?

There will always be those who cannot work and need support, aka welfare. As we can see, the more on welfare, the fewer producing for them, and the more that is taken from the producers.

 

[MagicMike]

51 republicans and 3 democrat/independents voted to open the gov't.

Dems have told Speaker Johnson that they will not vote to reopen government until they have a guarantee that Republicans aren't going to double healthcare premiums for hard working Americans. Republicans refuse to agree to this. Instead they'd rather the whole country suffers.

This is Schumer/Jeffries shut down.

You spelled Trump/Johnson wrong.

Trump has nothing to do with it--

Surre he does. If Trump gave Johnson the go ahead to agree to extend the ACA's tax credits the government would immediately reopen.

Educate yourself. Schumer could have spent the last 26 days negotiating the issues, instead he threw a hissy fit and decided to hold the country hostage.

Fake news. Republicans have the White House AND majorities in both houses of Congress. They own this.
Remember all that crowing you MAGAts did last November about your "overwhelming win?"
Well...how does all that "winning" feel a year later when it's time to own the failures you voted for?

Put the blame where it belongs and as I said IDGAF if the SNAP/EBT and ACA disappear and are never heard of again. See what happens when you hold the country hostage?

Quit your whining snowflake!

 

[Marener]

Dems have told Speaker Johnson that they will not vote to reopen government until they have a guarantee that Republicans aren't going to double healthcare premiums for hard working Americans. Republicans refuse to agree to this. Instead they'd rather the whole country suffers.

You spelled Trump/Johnson wrong.

Surre he does. If Trump gave Johnson the go ahead to agree to extend the ACA's tax credits the government would immediately reopen.

Fake news. Republicans have the White House AND majorities in both houses of Congress. They own this.
Remember all that crowing you MAGAts did last November about your "overwhelming win?"
Well...how does all that "winning" feel a year later when it's time to own the failures you voted for?

Quit your whining snowflake!

Are Republicans even negotiating? It seems like they've just locked themselves in a closet waiting for Dems to fold.

 

[WEATHER53]

40 million dependents , at least half of which are stone cold moochers and manipulators, will see how it is not a good way to live your life
Thinkers will cheer and lib loons will cry and riot .

 

[Marener]

The utopian scenario you imagine is known as the Horatio Alger myth. They teach about it in college level American history classes.

https://owlcation.com/humanities/horatio-alger

The economy is becoming a casino. I thought this was a good article.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/opinion/trump-economy-casino.html

It's not sustainable.

 

[WEATHER53]

Huh? I hate poor people because I want to stop them from stealing other people’s property, after they’ve threatened to do so? I guess you’re one of those libtards who would like to make shoplifting legal.

You’re an absolute idiot. Stores would have GREATER reduced profits if they just let thugs walk out the door with all their foodI hated being poor so U set my ambitions on not being that way

Huh? I hate poor people because I want to stop them from stealing other people’s property, after they’ve threatened to do so? I guess you’re one of those libtards who would like to make shoplifting legal.

You’re an absolute idiot. Stores would have GREATER reduced profits if they just let thugs walk out the door with all their food.

I hated being poor so I set my aspirations on not being that way. Mostv lib loons don’t believe in or even know the concept

 

[Concerned American]

Dems have told Speaker Johnson that they will not vote to reopen government until they have a guarantee that Republicans aren't going to double healthcare premiums for hard working Americans. Republicans refuse to agree to this. Instead they'd rather the whole country suffers.

That's called holding the country hostage to get their way instead of negotiating. I can see the demise of the ACA as a result of the Schumer shutdown tantrum.

You spelled Trump/Johnson wrong.

Off topic.

Surre he does. If Trump gave Johnson the go ahead to agree to extend the ACA's tax credits the government would immediately reopen.

Johnson did his job. He and the majority of the house voted for a clean Continuing Resolution. Petulant democrats are holding the country hostage to their tantrum. The fact that they won't pass the CR is proof that they don't want to negotiate.

Fake news. Republicans have the White House AND majorities in both houses of Congress.

That is exactly right and those majorities have voted for the CR across the board---spoiled democrats refuse to add six votes---on Schumer's direction. SCHUMER'S SHUTDOWN.

Quit your whining snowflake!

Remember that on Nov. 1 and again on Nov. 21 when your communist programs come to an end.

 

[Mac-7]

That should be determined by the workers. If the job offers what the worker needs to live on then the employee accepts the terms.
If not they look elsewhere including government assistance.

If a job is available then government assistance should not be an option

 

[struth]

That should be determined by the workers. If the job offers what the worker needs to live on then the employee accepts the terms.
If not they look elsewhere including government assistance.

It is, nobody is forced to take a job. If someone values themselves at $10/hr, and the employer says, no I value it at $8/hr, he doens't have to take the job.

 

[struth]

Are Republicans even negotiating? It seems like they've just locked themselves in a closet waiting for Dems to fold.

what's there to negotiate? It's a continued resolution, we are just contining what we all already agreed to.

 

[Mac-7]

It is, nobody is forced to take a job. If someone values themselves at $10/hr, and the employer says, no I value it at $8/hr, he doens't have to take the job.

True

That person should be free to go hungry if that is their choice