We have six days until snap/food stamp cards might run out of money…predictions

[toobfreak]

If we were limiting government to stay out of people’s lives, then we wouldn’t have a free government food program at all.

Wrong. We are not talking about limiting government from HELPING people. It is none of the government's business what I eat or how I live really. First it was prohibition. That didn't work. Then about 20 years ago, they went after tobacco, another wholly legal product. Now they are going after comfort food. It is just a rationalization to steal from the weakest and most vulnerable least able to defend themselves to take back a little to help compensate for years and years of bad governmental management and spending. If the ******* government hadn't spent itself 40 trillion into debt getting all fat and lazy, no one would care about Joe Blow having a candy bar a couple times a week.

But once you have these tax-payer provided assistance programs, then we need restrictions on how our tax dollars are to be spent to curtail the waste.

The waste is not in people buying food. The waste is in government theft, and the government letting many onto the programs who could be out earning a living for themselves. The government is justified in not letting folks starve, but are not justified in telling people what they can eat. How would you like me picking movies for you to watch? Places to go on vacation? Maybe choosing your meals. Perhaps I could even pick out who you should date, marry or have kids with? After all, you use lots of publicly-funded services yourself.

If you were a conservative, you’d understand this. Instead, you revert to the lib MO of insulting your opponent with childish lies and bringing up Israel in an asinine comparison.

Listen honey, I'm probably THE most conservative person on this board. I just don't have my head up my ass.

 

[Anathema]

Government cheese is not only unhealthy, it's addictive.

I know thst. My wife’s entire family is addicted to it in one way or another.

 

[dudmuck]

If we were limiting government to stay out of people’s lives, then we wouldn’t have a free government food program at all.

But once you have these tax-payer provided assistance programs, then we need restrictions on how our tax dollars are to be spent to curtail the waste.

If you were a conservative, you’d understand this. Instead, you revert to the lib MO of insulting your opponent with childish lies and bringing up Israel in an asinine comparison.

 

[cnm]

There has never existed a time in contemporary Western society when the population of "helpless" fat people was larger than it is today....The last I read it's around 47 million in the US on SNAP/EBT.

Because of all the "help" our society has given people, we now have tens of millions of fat people who can't live without that "help".

And we've now reached the point where we don't know what the heck else to do with them.

That's what happens when a society is constructed as a feeding frenzy and wealth is wildly unequal in distribution.

Funny that.

 

[Invisibleflash]

Options:

Dems cave and open the .gov before then?

Dems pass a stand alone bill for SNAP?

States cover the shortfall with their rainy day funds?

Blue cities burn?

IMHO

There has never existed a time in contemporary Western society when the population of "helpless" fat people was larger than it is today....The last I read it's around 47 million in the US on SNAP/EBT.

Because of all the "help" our society has given people, we now have tens of millions of fat people who can't live without that "help".

And we've now reached the point where we don't know what the heck else to do with them.

 

[1srelluc]

Listen honey, I'm probably THE most conservative person on this board. I just don't have my head up my ass.

I don't know, you are sure to the left of this issue and to be honest I've noticed a left lean to several of your posts of late.

 

[1srelluc]

That's what happens when a society is constructed as a feeding frenzy and wealth is wildly unequal in distribution.

Funny that.

Maybe you had your life handed to you....I had to work to get my net worth to where it is today so bugger-off with that tripe.

 

[Woodznutz]

True, but its the "working poor" that needs a break.
I support the ACA subsidy, but paid for by cutting spending, like the DOGE savings.
Family formation fell off a cliff. No one can afford a house or kids.

Nope. The middle class move to upper middle class. The upper crust stays the upper crust.

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I like the pyramid graph better. You have a broad base of entry level workers, then a broad middle class, topped off by the few very rich at the top. The whole thing moves like an escalator. Capital flows downward to the lower and middle class who produce the profits much of which return to the upper class. Rinse and repeat. The big difference is that the pyramid is dynamic, always in motion while most graphs are a snapshot in time.

 

[sparky]

population of "helpless" fat people

>>>>stares down @ gut<<<< ~S~

 

[1srelluc]

>>>>stares down @ gut<<<< ~S~

If you grew it on your own dime then that's between you and bettus.

 

[Seymour Flops]

It is the Democrats who are ending "food stamps," now known as SNAP benefits - not MAGA.

They have refused to fund feeding poor children after midnight, October 31st. I hope those poor kiddos get some apples, spam, and beef jerky mixed in with their Halloween candy. They're going to need it.

 

[Mack The Finger]

Options:

Put plywood over your windows !

Be ready for the riots !

 

[1srelluc]

Put plywood over your windows !

Be ready for the riots !

Don't forget the weapon ports.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

 

[XponentialChaos]

A candy bar might not be much of anything to you or I, but to some people, it is literally all that they have left to hang onto for sanity to keep life tolerable worth living.

I really want a candy bar.

Buy me one.

 

[dudmuck]

It is the Democrats who are ending "food stamps," now known as SNAP benefits - not MAGA.

They have refused to fund feeding poor children after midnight, October 31st. I hope those poor kiddos get some apples, spam, and beef jerky mixed in with their Halloween candy. They're going to need it.

republicans control congress, in case you havent noticed.

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

Just stay out of shady neighborhoods and areas

 

[Mac1958]

When you yank the carpet out from under someone with little or no notice, you have to understand they may react. It could be food stamps, it could be tariffs, it could be health insurance, it could be international military assistance.

That's what this administration has done since it started its second season term. Presumably they have decided that ripping off every single band aid at the same time will result in something positive in the long run.

They will, in turn, react with heavy-handed authoritarianism. They have planned for that as well. We'll see what that looks like. This is what America voted for -- whether it realized it or not -- so this is what it gets. Elections have consequences.

 

[Mac1958]

republicans control congress, in case you havent noticed.

It's pretty safe to assume that there is something personal/financial in it for Trump in this "deal".

And he knows the flock will put up with it. That's some pretty astonishing power right there.

 

[Dorian Mode]

My suggestion to good people: Do your shopping in Montana. Doing your shopping in CA, GA, IL, NJ, NY is going to be more dangerous than the front line of the Russia-Ukraine proxy war. Imagine going to your local Walmart and seeing 50 or more 400lb. behemoths with 7 kids, all from different fathers, all screaming at the top of their lungs and heading to the door with 3 shopping carts full of junk food and the kids all have Glocks in their hands. When they steal all the food then they are going to eat the employees.