Rich people telling people on food stamps to get “off their asses”!

    by GuiltyBathroom9385

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    1. weird how they don’t bitch and cry about the united states dairy industry being literally govt funded

    2. I work my ass off. I struggle. I can’t get food stamps. I can’t afford food. So what am I supposed to do? I am already doing everything I can. I don’t think people who don’t have to worry about things like food have a clue what it is like to struggle. I wish you could wave a wand and they can live like people who struggle for a month. Then they would understand.

    3. 40mm people? Why you complaining about feeding borrowers? They shouldn’t cost that much to feed.

    4. atthevanishing on

      Aren’t most people who receive benefits white? It doesn’t matter to the people who read this shit and agree, cuz facts never get in the way of good old fashioned racism

    5. “Stop reproducing” says a member pf a political party that takes away abortion rights, is again birth control and does think sex education should be taught in schools.

    6. If the price of getting food to all those to desperately need it is that some food goes to people who are less desperate is that so bad?

    7. Evening_Rock5850 on

      Reminder boys and girls: The vast majority of food stamp recipients are working. Food stamps are not free money handed out to citizens by hard-working taxpayers. Rather; they’re a way to subsidize the wages of some of the largest, and wealthiest corporations in the world.

      Raising the minimum wage would drastically reduce the number of people eligible for SNAP. This means that raising the minimum wage *is* the solution to get “freeloaders off my taxes” or whatever variant of that one might believe. Because it’ll force employers to be the ones to pay their employees; instead of the taxpayers.

      Of the SNAP recipients who are not currently working; the vast majority of *those* were working within the past 6 months.

      People who have gone 6+ months without working while receiving SNAP are a very, very small percentage of the overall pie. And of *those*, the bulk are disabled or elderly. There are, of course, people who have every ability to work; and choose not to. But they’re few and far between.

      Companies like Walmart and Amazon actively help their employees sign up for government benefits like SNAP, because even they see it as a taxpayer subsidy on their wages.

    8. Cool. Maybe we should go after all of those that got the biggest welfare of all: the fraudulent PPP grants that put them ahead of other struggling Americans.

    9. The idiot doesn’t realize how many more people are going to be eligible for SNAP in these next 3 years as companies here will continue to goes out of business

    10. A lot of poor elderly get food assistance. And housing assistance. As a once upon a time Sec. 8 housing manager, I had numerous elderly, widows, disabled, etc., that would have been homeless and most likely DEAD without these assistance programs. Are there abusers? Sure. But do we want to punish or effectively kill the majority of recipients because of the lower percentage of abusers? I think not.

    11. Outrageous_Seaweed32 on

      “We don’t want you here, if you won’t work.”

      *Looks at government shutdown.*

      Hmmmmmm…

    12. This isn’t just a rich, racist asshole. This is a former clerk to Neil Gorsuch, a George W. Bush White House staffer, and chief counsel for Senator Grassley on judicial nominations. The rot he’s introduced into America’s judicial system is immeasurable.

    13. jim-james--jimothy on

      It was directed at one race. Not just a rich person telling people to not be lazy. He is a racist.

    14. I cannot figure out why these people
      Have so much hate in their hearts. I mean what has caused them to hate their fellow man so much? How can anyone in power be associated with someone like this? If we as a county cannot allow our poorest citizens the dignity of having food then we deserve whatever collapse is coming.

    15. 37% of SNAP recipients are White.
      26% Black.
      16% Hispanic.
      4% Asian.

      Immigrants have to wait 5 years to get SNAP, unless they’re refugees, asylees, or lawful permanent residents. Undocumented and those with temporary visas are no eligible.

    16. I cannot imagine being this blatantly vile, disgusting and evil that you think this is ok to broadcast. What a fucking miserable human.

    17. 70% of the adults who will be denied SNAP benefits this month are working adults who have jobs, and simply do not get paid a living wage for the job they do. The 30 percent of adults not working have needed to prove they are unable to work – this can be from an injury or disability… but they must provide evidence that they are physically unable to work in order to remain on the benefit program roster.

      These Republicans are so eager to be racist that they have to make up phony stats to be enraged about – all the while hurting their own constituents with a refusal to pass a national minimimum wage that actually provides a livable wage; with their refusal to support social support programs; with their refusal to support free meals at school for children; with their refusal to provide universal healthcare… all these things that can help eliminate the need for SNAP – but they would rather bail out foreign countries, auction off out national monuments to corporations, and raise taxes on the middle and lower classes so that the rich can just keep getting richer… they have an addiction to wealth that is ruining this country.

    18. tychobrahesmoose on

      “Stop reproducing.”

      “Can we have comprehensive sex education and universal access to birth control and family planning services?”

      “No.”

    19. Pay your taxes… When I was kid we were on welfare, food stamps, govt cheese… My mom had 2 jobs and was going to school. You don’t know the shame of having to get the free lunch. We got out of it, but it was not easy. I shame no one who needs it. This also goes to support the elderly, disabled… People who can not do it . And I would rather do this little thing than give a corporation a tax loophole.

    20. Racism ✅

      Classism ✅

      Sexism ✅

      Ableism ✅

      Xenophobia ✅

      Conservatism ✅ ✅ ✅

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