Friday, December 21, 2018

Last Call For Scrooged At Christmas

As a shutdown looms tonight after House Republicans adjourned without a deal, the Trump regime has decided that if Republicans won't take food out of the mouths of families and continue turning America into a Dickensian workhouse nightmare, than by God they will.  Work for your supper, peasant!

The Trump administration unveiled a plan Thursday to force hundreds of thousands more Americans to hold jobs if they want to keep receiving food stamps, pursuing through executive powers what it could not achieve in Congress.

The country’s food assistance program, which is run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, already requires most adults without dependents to work if they collect food stamps for more than three months in a three-year period. But USDA regulations allow states to waive the requirement in areas with unemployment rates that are at least 20 percent greater than the national rate.

The USDA is now proposing that states could waive the requirement only in areas where unemployment is above 7 percent. The current national unemployment rate stands at 3.7 percent.

Approximately 2.8 million able-bodied recipients without children or an ailing person in their care were not working in 2016, according to the USDA’s latest numbers. Roughly 755,000 live in areas that stand to lose the waivers.

The Trump administration unveiled a plan Thursday to force hundreds of thousands more Americans to hold jobs if they want to keep receiving food stamps, pursuing through executive powers what it could not achieve in Congress.

The country’s food assistance program, which is run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, already requires most adults without dependents to work if they collect food stamps for more than three months in a three-year period. But USDA regulations allow states to waive the requirement in areas with unemployment rates that are at least 20 percent greater than the national rate.

The USDA is now proposing that states could waive the requirement only in areas where unemployment is above 7 percent. The current national unemployment rate stands at 3.7 percent.

Approximately 2.8 million able-bodied recipients without children or an ailing person in their care were not working in 2016, according to the USDA’s latest numbers. Roughly 755,000 live in areas that stand to lose the waivers.

You can either starve and be unemployed, or work and make too much money to be on SNAP, but either way it's not the Trump regime's problem.  Dead Americans don't consumer resources, you know.  We're already to the point where tens of millions of Americans are buying food at dollar stores because there are no grocery stores where they live, canned foods that are less healthy and actually more expensive than grocery stores, because that's all they can afford on a $7.25 an hour job.

But remember, Republicans refuse to raise the minimum wage, they want to throw millions off food stamps and Obamacare and everything else so you can experience the dignity of poverty.

Merry Christmas.  Work or starve.

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