Why would anyone have a problem with working 80 hours a month

Woke people are fat
The only skinny ones are the ones addicted to fentanyl
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It's pretty crazy that Trump is trying to starve people out as a negotiation strategy. And you can say 'both sides' about the shutdown because either party could choose to stand down. But it is not both sides on SNAP. The admin resisted using contingency funds to fund it, which is not something Democrats are even empowered to do. And when the courts tell them the contingency funds must be used, they're still slow walking it, asking the court to tell them how to do their own job, even though in every other arena they arendoing stuff without any blessings of the court. They think they can get the Democrats to crack if they starve people and somehow not lose votes. Crazy. Makes me think of the Bible story where a woman tells Solomon another woman stole her baby so Solomon says he will split the baby, only to give to the baby to the woman who relents first because she cares for the baby's welfare. Trump is counting on Democrats caring about people's welfare so he can get the whole thing himself.

Honest discussion needs good data.

 

Hostage?

p.s. Not at all crazy. What’s truly no longer crazy is when some people support this as a negotiation strategy.

 

5 years or so of that damn near killed me

Dude, aren't you a Salvadoran anchor baby?

 

All of you people, every one of you, can straight up go **** yourselves. Just garbage humanity.

 

If their employee gets 200$ in Food Stamps
I'd say about 150-180$ of it is probably spent IN WALMART

So the Government subsidizes Walmart by giving its underpaid employees money for food
Then the employees take that money and spend it at walmart
Sweet Racket Walmart has there

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Basically . . .CHOOSE: Food or Healthcare
You can only have one

That is the Republican thinking

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SNAP is 110 billion a year for food for Americans, many of them women and children… how much did President Limp Dick give Argentina and their weirdo leader? 60 billion?

GTFO

 

The average Walmart frontline (cashier, greeter, etc) employee averages $18-20+ an hour. They're not on SNAP.

 

I'm sorry but lobbyists don't control what people eat and how much they exercise.

That's the television's job.

 

Jon Stewart made a good point earlier, and Manchin agreed: we spend so much time b!tching and moaning about the few hundreds of millions called "welfare" that goes to poor people while we don't bat an eye at the hundreds of billions that go to corporations.

 

Giving people cash (UBI) is stupid although it will likely happen in some form eventually. The fact is the people that 'need' it the most are also some of the most irresponsible people when it comes to money. No, I do not support UBI. Its a terrible idea and all it does is win a politician a vote.

Good healthy food (however you want to define that) is very important for a healthy population (our country in this context). So no, I do not have a problem handing out healthy food to everyone.

 

Free water or free soda? Which do you think a SNAP recipient will take on average?

 

Hourly wage does not equate annual income. Im certain you've debated this before.

 

And now Amazon is planning to automate over 500,000 jobs in places where they received tax breaks. Should states demand a tax rebate from the company that they gave money away to now that Amazon is gleefully automating the local economy?

 

Nay, the logic is simply backward.

The backward logic is that you completely ignore the people who cannot work. You do realize there are individuals who genuinely can’t work, right? What do you propose we do with them? Let them die of starvation? Because that’s essentially your solution when you require 80 hours of work per month.