“states will roll back their food stamps rules to pre-crisis levels”
According to the President, what crisis??
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Yes … and even though there’s evidence that cash benefits to low income families boosts the economy since recipients spend all of it.
That story is getting out more. Working people hate giving “free money” to rich kids who don’t need it and don’t spend enough in the U.S. economy.
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That’s unfair. You’re not alone though. Student debt must’ve radicalized as many people as the great working voters’ home equity transfer of '08.
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I can’t tell you how satisfying it is to see someone using the “iron ricebowl” idiom a few months after reading about it.
Many hungry people are “fully-employed”; they just don’t make enough to buy cover adequate food. I think that they get to keep their SNAP, though.
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I can’t help but notice that the cut-off is 80 hours per month, approximately 20 hours per week, which leaves Walmart employees on the still-in-business side of that line.
There’s no way the Waltons are going to allow the government to stop subsidizing their payroll.
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But wealth is trickling down to the poor and disenfranchised, it will get there soon, right? I’m sure everything will be fine.
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As a SNAP recipient myself, I’m well aware of that, just as you knew exactly what I meant.
Eat Wall Street.
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Hopefully this bullshit will catalyse a bit more support for Bernie.
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One thing is certain: this will greatly impact the economy of the country. People don’t realize that $200 a month x 1 million is 200 million dollars lost in revenue EVERY MONTH. That translates to roughly 2.2 Billion dollars a year. Poof. Gone from the economy instantly.
People spend more on items they wouldn’t normally buy with their own money, believe it or not. This means they won’t be buying for quality, but quantity.
That means less demand for quality items.
That means less production of quality items.
That means welcome to a future of Ramen noodles.
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Mmm yes and no. The money will be spent elsewhere. Just not at Wal-mart. It isn’t like the gov. isn’t operating on a deficit.
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right. the waltons are STILL buying influence… http://usuncut.com/politics/alice-walton-hillary-clinton/
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There is an amazingly popular myth in America that poor people are poor on purpose, bc they have somehow figured out to live more comfortably being homeless and poor and begging and on food stamps than if they had a job.
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I always cringe when some privileged twit chimes in with an observation like, “Free _____? Maybe I should just quit my job instead of paying for it like a shmuck.”
There is a huge swathe of the North American population who apparently have no idea what it is like to be generationally poor.
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I’m reminded of right-wing government angrily promising its base to get rid of the freeloaders (not corporate, obviously) cheating the system.
There was an enormous investigation into “welfare fraud”. It cost tens of millions of dollars.
There was no fraud found (among welfare recipients).
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Sadly just the same here in the UK…
I wish i could move to an actual civilised country.
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Don’t forget that a pernicious lack of numeracy means most of these blowhards don’t even realize that tens of millions of dollars is chump change.
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I mean that the government spent millions of (taxpayer) dollars to identify nearly zero dollars worth of fraud.
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Yes! This too!
It is irksome on so many levels.
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