House Votes To Cut Food Stamps By $2 Billion

[Wiggs]

KILL WHITEY!!!!

No. Hell no. Just keep it real.

[Soul Crusher]

Quit making shit up Frenchy....Taken directly from footnotes of table A21. "i
This category includes the following values: Unknown; Not recorded on the application for this individual; The application was not found during the QC review, therefore racial/ethnic data is not available."

So no, Blacks = 22.8% on welfare.
As I stated, this isn't about % of Americans are black or white. This is about sheer SNAP numbers. Quit making excuses for whites.

True - I would put all the welfare cases on a work detail.  no excuses for whites to be on welfare  

[beakdoctor]

There is more than enough means in this country. There is too much waste. Quit stringing people along at the poverty level with welfare. Some just need to start doing for themselves.

[Man of Steel]

No. Hell no. Just keep it real.

Certainly, I shall keep it real.   

[Wiggs]

Certainly, I shall keep it real.   

lololol. Embarrassing as hell.

[Man of Steel]

lololol. Embarrassing as hell.

an over-the-top parody of a racial stereotype, but funny for what it is.   

[Devon97]

True - I would put all the welfare cases on a work detail.  no excuses for whites to be on welfare  

Agreed. If a white person is on welfare they should be ashamed of themselves.

What do you think about unemployment checks ?

[Wiggs]

Agreed. If a white person is on welfare they should be ashamed of themselves.

What do you think about unemployment checks ?

This is not directed towards me but I think people should be randomly tested for unemployment checks. If you don't show up, no, check.

[Devon97]

Between this and Zimmermen about to go scott free the black community will be in turmoil  

[Devon97]

This is not directed towards me but I think people should be randomly tested for unemployment checks. If you don't show up, no, check.

Randomly?? How about Mandatory!

[shootfighter1]

Food stamp use is way beyond the inner city communities.  It has spread like a virus, leeching our tax dollars.  They lowered the financial requirements and advertise the program.  Screw making this a black vs latino vs white issue...people of all colors are using food stamps in increasing numbers over the past 5 yrs, and like I said previously, even college kids and tons of people between jobs taking advantage of the 'free' stuff.  1 in 7 people in this country using food stamps, outrageous.  Our generation and the next are fucked if we don't address expanding government dependency.

[Voice of Doom]

1. The Government is always looking for more power.
2. People have to think they need government to live.

[arce1988]

http://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-work/


  Amazing

[JBGRAY]

Want to wipe out poverty in less than one generation here in the US? Here's how:

 - Rather than giving out EBT cards where food stamp recipients use at supermarkets, give them a voucher for food-stuffs only at designated food warehouses....sugary cereals and snacks? Nope, not at the taxpayer's expense....here is a box of plain oatmeal and Wheatabix cereal. Soda's? nope.....Juicy Juice instead. This would cut out a lot of corruption and would give incentives to recipients to work to get off the program.

- Voluntary Sterilization. The Government will pay any able-bodied male $10,000 if that male willfully submits to a sterilization program. Leroy, Jorge, and Bubba Jim are now not producing future prison inmates, but spending their money on rims, candy paint jobs for their '85 Olds Cutlasses, used pinatas, and Popov Vodka.

[Roger Bacon]

- Voluntary Sterilization. The Government will pay any able-bodied male $10,000 if that male willfully submits to a sterilization program. Leroy, Jorge, and Bubba Jim are now not producing future prison inmates, but spending their money on rims, candy paint jobs for their '85 Olds Cutlasses, used pinatas, and Popov Vodka.

This x100

[The Abdominal Snoman]

What cost more for a society? People on food stamps or people who go into more debt than they can possibly pay? Both of these are forms of control.

[jon cole]

Quit making shit up Frenchy....Taken directly from footnotes of table A21. "i
This category includes the following values: Unknown; Not recorded on the application for this individual; The application was not found during the QC review, therefore racial/ethnic data is not available."

So no, Blacks = 22.8% on welfare.
As I stated, this isn't about % of Americans are black or white. This is about sheer SNAP numbers. Quit making excuses for whites.

yes i read the table a21.
black 12% of population = 22.8% of welfare. + 18% of unknown (certainly african non american like haitien, dominican, )
white 72 % of population = 36 % of welfare.

the term "african american" lead to a bad interpretation.
They don't speak about asian american or hispanic american but they speak about african american.
If they use the term black (like they use asian or hispanic) instead of "african american" and unknow and you got the magic number of 41%

so in proportion black are over represented in welfare.

[240_Iz_Nutz]

Want to wipe out poverty in less than one generation here in the US? Here's how:

 - Rather than giving out EBT cards where food stamp recipients use at supermarkets, give them a voucher for food-stuffs only at designated food warehouses....sugary cereals and snacks? Nope, not at the taxpayer's expense....here is a box of plain oatmeal and Wheatabix cereal. Soda's? nope.....Juicy Juice instead. This would cut out a lot of corruption and would give incentives to recipients to work to get off the program.

- Voluntary Sterilization. The Government will pay any able-bodied male $10,000 if that male willfully submits to a sterilization program. Leroy, Jorge, and Bubba Jim are now not producing future prison inmates, but spending their money on rims, candy paint jobs for their '85 Olds Cutlasses, used pinatas, and Popov Vodka.

Like I said earlier in the thread, most aren't interested in anything but selling the shit for half price.

[James28]

http://www.lex18.com/news/house-votes-to-cut-food-stamps-by-2-billion/

WASHINGTON (AP) - The House voted on Wednesday to cut food stamps by $2 billion a year as part of a wide-ranging farm bill.

The chamber rejected 234-188 a Democratic amendment to the five-year, half-trillion-dollar farm legislation that would have maintained current spending on food stamps, now called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. The overall bill cuts the $80 billion-a-year program by about 3 percent and makes it harder for some people to qualify.

The food stamp cuts have complicated passage of the bill and its farm-state supporters were working to secure votes Wednesday. Many conservatives have said the food stamp cuts do not go far enough since the program has doubled in cost in the last five years and now feeds 1 in 7 Americans. Liberals have argued against any reductions, contending the House plan could take as many as 2 million needy recipients off the rolls. The White House has threatened a veto over the food stamp cuts.

The amendment by Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., and other Democrats would have eliminated the SNAP cuts and taken the money from farm subsidies instead.

"It's too big, it's too harsh and it's going to hurt so many people," McGovern said of the food aid cuts.

Other amendments chipped away at the program. The House adopted by voice vote an amendment to require drug tests for SNAP recipients, angering Democrats who said the tests would be demeaning to people who apply for the food aid. Lawmakers also adopted by voice vote an amendment that would end a 2004 U.S.-Mexico agreement to educate Mexican-Americans about food stamps. More amendments are expected to try and scale back the program.

Also complicating passage is growing Republican opposition to farm subsidies, some of which are expanded under the bill. Republicans have proposed amendments that would cut back dairy and sugar supports that could turn lawmakers from certain regions of the country against the bill if they were to succeed.

The House is scheduled to continue voting on 103 amendments to the bill Thursday with a vote on passage possibly next week. As of Wednesday, it was unclear if Republicans had enough votes.

In an effort to push the legislation through, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said last week that he would vote for it, while making it clear that he did not really like it. He said he wants to get the bill to House and Senate negotiators for a potential deal, and that passing the bill was better than doing nothing.

The legislation would cut around $4 billion a year in overall spending on farm and nutrition programs. The Senate passed its version of the farm bill last week, with about $2.4 billion a year in overall cuts and a $400 million annual decrease in the SNAP program - about a fifth of the amount of the House food stamp cuts.

Democratic leaders have said they will wait to see how the House votes on the many amendments, but have so far signaled opposition to the measure. Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California argued against the food stamp cuts on the floor Wednesday and was a "likely no" on the bill, according to an aide. No. 2 House Democrat Steny Hoyer of Maryland called the food stamp cuts "irresponsible."

The chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Okla., told colleagues that a robust farm policy was necessary to avoid farm crises like those in the 1930s and 1980s.

"I will work with all of you to improve this draft," he said Tuesday. "I ask you to work with me."

The legislation would achieve some of the food stamp cuts by partially eliminating what is called categorical eligibility, or giving people automatic food stamp benefits when they sign up for certain other programs. The bill would end a practice in some states of giving low-income people as little as $1 a year in home heating assistance, even when they don't have heating bills, in order to make them eligible for increased food stamp benefits.

Lucas said the cuts would still allow people who qualify to apply for food stamps, they just wouldn't automatically get them.

The Oklahoma Republican has called the overall legislation the "most reform-minded bill in decades" because it would make needed cuts to food stamps and eliminate $5 billion a year in direct payments, subsidies that are paid to farmers whether they grow or not. The bill would expand crop insurance and makes it easier for rice and peanut farmers to collect subsidies.

The bill also sets policy for international food aid abroad, which is currently shipped from U.S. farms. The House rejected an amendment to shift around half of international food aid money to more flexible accounts that allow for cash purchases abroad.

The Obama administration has proposed shifting the way the food aid is distributed, saying it would be more efficient to make purchases closer to conflict areas.


(Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Good. If you keep spawning little rats you can't afford, suffer. If you're that much of a parasite that refuse to work in the long term. Suffer.

Why on fucking earth we keep propping up this toilet genetics that keep spawning more worthless mouths to feed is beyond me. Might actually do them a favour by pulling the carpet out from under them. Literally force them to take responsibility for their own economic well being.

[syntaxmachine]

Conditional cash transfer programs have a good record overseas and there doesn't seem to be any compelling reason they wouldn't work here as well.

[FitnessFrenzy]

  NO one should be hungry in the USA

not exactly the current reality.

[shootfighter1]

We absolutely should have the right to dictate what food types or brands people using food stamps use, it is our tax dollars.

[Soul Crusher]

We absolutely should have the right to dictate what food types or brands people using food stamps use, it is our tax dollars.

Damn right - we should have food depots - not these scams and ebt swipe cards.

Beans, Rice, potatoes, etc for these people - no lobsters and steaks

[BigCyp]

The ONLY person responsible for feeding a child, and ensuring it's possible to feed a child is the parent.

[Soul Crusher]

The ONLY person responsible for feeding a child, and ensuring it's possible to feed a child is the parent.

Not according to that hag on msnbc Harris Perry.