Stamp Of Disapproval

So what's ahead in the next phase of battles in Congress? House Republicans are champing at the bit in order to kick nearly 2 million people off of food stamps (because only "those" people need food stamps) and give the money saved to more government farm subsidies.  The plan won't save a dime of money as the Republicans are immediately giving every bit of the savings to Big Agriculture.  But it'll sure teach those young bucks selling food stamps for drugs (which is every minority on the program of course) a lesson.

House Republicans have spent the years since the Great Recession clamoring for “reform” of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps, cutting funding from the program in budget after budget. But now that a top House Republican has drafted a deal that would make the program’s basic requirements even more stringent than Texas — a state with notoriously strict eligibility standards — conservative Republicans are balking at the deal in favor of a requirement even they admit is “out of date.”

House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas (R-OK), in an effort to push food stamp reform that would have a fighting chance in the Senate, made sizable changes to SNAP in the House version of the farm bill. Lucas’ draft reins in state eligibility requirements by ending what is known as “categorical eligibility” for all non-cash-assistance food programs. The Lucas version of the bill would save billions but kick nearly two million people out of the program, following the footsteps of Republican efforts over the last two years. But that isn’t enough for his fellow Republicans, who want to make deeper, “symbolic” cuts that have no chance of passing the Senate...

But that doesn't matter.  Punishing those who choose to vote for Democrats matter.  There are no poor people in America, no hungry people, no people who go without food in this country, only lazy people who aren't working 80 hours a week at minimum wage.  America is the greatest country in the history of everything!

Come to think of it, why do you need a minimum wage, anyway?  Just work more hours, you lazy bums!

AMERCIA, FCUK YEAH!