Trump plan will remove 750,000 from food stamp rolls

[Wingnut]

Libtard heads are exploding and the talking heads are spinning it: Trump plan will starve the childern.


As many as 750,000 will be cut off from food stamps under a new regulation set to be announced Wednesday.

The change will make it harder for states to receive waivers for requirements that certain able-bodied adults work or be enrolled in vocational training programs in order to receive benefits, Bloomberg reported.

Currently, states can request a waiver for work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as food stamps, if an area’s unemployment rate is at least 20 percent above the national rate. The national unemployment rate in October was 3.6 percent. Alabama’s preliminary unemployment rate for October was 2.8 percent.

As of August, 36.4 million Americans, including 721,299 Alabamians, receive food stamps.

Alabama currently doesn’t have any waivers in place.

Without the waiver, all SNAP recipients ages 18 to 49 who aren’t disabled or raising minor children are required to work at least part-time. Able-bodied adult SNAP recipients who don’t work are limited to three months of benefits within a three-year time frame.

https://www.al.com/news/2019/12/trump-plan-will-remove-750000-from-food-stamp-rolls.html

[verga]

Them that don't work don't eat.

[mountaineer]

Good.

[kidd]

<750,000 cut out of 36.4 million food stamp recipients.

That's only 2%.

America is now at full employment.
Charity should go to those who really need it.

[verga]

<750,000 cut out of 36.4 million food stamp recipients.

That's only 2%.

America is now at full employment.
Charity should go to those who really need it.

Still it is a start. Much better than Obozo going the other way.

[mountaineer]

Biden Supported Welfare Work Requirements in 1996, Now Calls Them ‘Morally Bankrupt’
Biden in 1996: 'The culture of welfare must be replaced with the culture of work'
Charles Fain Lehman - December 6, 2019 5:35 PM

Former vice president Joe Biden on Friday called the Trump administration "morally bankrupt" for its expansion of work requirements for food stamps, even though the former vice president was a self-proclaimed architect of America's work for welfare regime.

Responding to news that an estimated 700,000 Americans could be removed from welfare rolls by a recently announced federal rule, Biden took to Twitter to say, "This administration is morally bankrupt." He joined dozens of other Democrats who have expressed outrage at the change, which is meant to reduce SNAP rolls which swelled after the Great Recession.  ...

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As Joe might say to someone attending his rallies, "C'mon, man!"

[IsailedawayfromFR]

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As Joe might say to someone attending his rallies, "C'mon, man!"

Liz Warren uses the same line when talking about the pot of money that is always there.


http://youtu.be/X7PsSTivy1E

[IsailedawayfromFR]

This should be celebrated by everyone as it symbolizes a solid economy.

There is no downside.

[libertybele]

This should be celebrated by everyone as it symbolizes a solid economy.

There is no downside.

 

[berdie]

I don't mind making sure people eat when they truly need it. The food stamps and local food pantries should take care of that.

That being said...there are a lot of people that abuse this program. I had a neighbor that died and her son and wife moved here from another state to live in her house.  They immediately applied for food stamps and got them. Maybe more assistance, I don't know. Both were able bodied relatively young people and able to work. Those folks and folks like them need to be kicked out of the program.

[truth_seeker]

Elected respresentatives vote the programs in, then pass to unelected bureaucrats, the authorization to establish rules.

The jobs of the unelected, depends on plenty of customers.

For decades the rolls have grown with little inerest in cutting back, instead. The current cutbacks are the first in my memory, which spans Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush I, and BushII.

This President is enacting some measures, that others only talked about.

[mountaineer]

I don't mind making sure people eat when they truly need it. The food stamps and local food pantries should take care of that.

That being said...there are a lot of people that abuse this program.

I suspect we've all seen people in the checkout lines buying non-essential stuff with food stamps. I saw a guy buying potato chips and jarred pimentos on one occasion. On another, it was a fellow in his 20s buying a huge pile of candy. Why the heck do food stamps/SNAP/EBT/whatever it's called now pay for such nonsense?

[sneakypete]

Libtard heads are exploding and the talking heads are spinning it: Trump plan will starve the childern.


As many as 750,000 will be cut off from food stamps under a new regulation set to be announced Wednesday.

 

@The Ghost

I like it.

[sneakypete]

<750,000 cut out of 36.4 million food stamp recipients.

That's only 2%.

America is now at full employment.
Charity should go to those who really need it.

@kidd

I agree,and we already have a system in place that exempts organized religions from having to pay taxes because they are the ones who are SUPPOSED to be feeding and clothing the needy to start with,not buying ocean front property and tv stations.

[Hoodat]

They could cut even more if they simply stopped giving out food stamps to fat people.  Make them means tested.  If you are overweight, then you are already getting enough food.

[bigheadfred]

Trump plan will starve the childern. @The Ghost

Maybe the wormens will survive. To breed another day.

[Free Vulcan]

I agree,and we already have a system in place that exempts organized religions from having to pay taxes because they are the ones who are SUPPOSED to be feeding and clothing the needy to start with,not buying ocean front property and tv stations.

I agree. There are churches that do, but they are usually low key and of course not wealthy, and don't get much notoreity, and are often attacked.

[sneakypete]

I agree. There are churches that do, but they are usually low key and of course not wealthy, and don't get much notoreity, and are often attacked.

@Free Vulcan

I agree with all that,and will add that it is a shame they get slammed for what the "designer churches" do,while they quietly go about their business and acting responsibly.

[catfish1957]

NIce job Mr. President. 

[verga]

I suspect we've all seen people in the checkout lines buying non-essential stuff with food stamps. I saw a guy buying potato chips and jarred pimentos on one occasion. On another, it was a fellow in his 20s buying a huge pile of candy. Why the heck do food stamps/SNAP/EBT/whatever it's called now pay for such nonsense?

I used to work at a local Convenience store back in the day when they gave our paper food stamps once or twice a week a kid I graduated with would come in and buy half a dozen eggs or a quart of milk and pay with $5 "stamp" then use the cash change to buy cigarettes. P!$$ED me off no end. I was busting my ass working almost full time going to school full time and this little shit sat on his @$$ nd go free cigarettes that I paid for.

[sneakypete]

I used to work at a local Convenience store back in the day when they gave our paper food stamps once or twice a week a kid I graduated with would come in and buy half a dozen eggs or a quart of milk and pay with $5 "stamp" then use the cash change to buy cigarettes. P!$$ED me off no end. I was busting my ass working almost full time going to school full time and this little shit sat on his @$$ nd go free cigarettes that I paid for.

@verga

Back in the 70's I live in a Mexican neighborhood in Denver,and it was a common practice to see junkies and drunks of all ages out in the parking lot of the local supermarket,selling their Food Stamps at a discount for drug/alcohol money. It was so common the off-duty Denver cops that worked store security just ignored it.

[Hoodat]

I used to work at a local Convenience store back in the day when they gave our paper food stamps once or twice a week a kid I graduated with would come in and buy half a dozen eggs or a quart of milk and pay with $5 "stamp" then use the cash change to buy cigarettes. P!$$ED me off no end. I was busting my ass working almost full time going to school full time and this little shit sat on his @$$ nd go free cigarettes that I paid for.

Back in high school, I had a friend who worked at IGA.  One day, a woman came in wanting to buy a bag of dog food with food stamps.  The store manager explained to her that he could not legally allow this because dog food was not on the eligible list of purchases.  So the woman retreated to put the dog food back to the shelf and then returned with a large package of hamburger.  She told the manager, "That's OK.  My dog likes hamburger better anyway."

This was during the malaise of the Carter years when beef in any form was considered a luxury.  But most families I knew wouldn't dream of getting on public assistance either.  We simply helped each other out like our Founding Fathers intended.  FDR and LBJ put Democrats on the path of destroying that.  The Freedom that our Founding Fathers secured has slowly been replaced by the Slavery of government checks and debit cards.