Thread: Food Stamps: the latest entitlement

it's time for today's installment of "unbelievably hypocritical republicans":

During the food stamp debate, GOP Rep. Stephen Fincher, who received thousands in farm subsidies, responded to a Democratic Congressman during the debate over the cuts by quoting the bible, saying “the one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.”

Fincher himself has received his own large share of government money. From 1999 to 2012, Stephen & Lynn Fincher Farms received $3,483,824 in agriculture subsidies. Last year he took in $70,574 alone.

Another Republican congresswoman who voted to make cuts to the food stamp program was Rep. Vicky Hartzler of Missouri. Her farm received more than $800,000 in Department of Agriculture subsidies from 1995-2012. In 2001, her farm received $135,482 in subsidies.

Rep. Kristi Noem of South Dakota, who also voted to make cuts to the program, was a partner in Racota Valley Ranch, her family’s farm and previously had nearly a 17% stake through 2008. The farm received $3.4 million in subsidies from 1995-2012. The Environmental Working Group, which analyzes subsidy data, says the “estimated amount of subsidies attributed to Rep. Noem from 1995-2012 is $503,751.”

Rep. Marlin Stutzman, a Republican Rep. from Indiana also received his fair share of government subsidies. He personally took in nearly $200,000 for the farm he co-owns with his father.

According to the New York Times Stutzman said Thursday the bill cutting food stamps by $39 billion over the next ten years “eliminates loopholes, ensures work requirements, and puts us on a fiscally responsible path.”

These Republicans Who Voted To Cut Food Stamps Personally Received Large Farm Subsidies

Originally Posted by raycarey

it's time for today's installment of "unbelievably hypocritical republicans":

During the food stamp debate, GOP Rep. Stephen Fincher, who received thousands in farm subsidies, responded to a Democratic Congressman during the debate over the cuts by quoting the bible, saying “the one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.”

Fincher himself has received his own large share of government money. From 1999 to 2012, Stephen & Lynn Fincher Farms received $3,483,824 in agriculture subsidies. Last year he took in $70,574 alone.

Another Republican congresswoman who voted to make cuts to the food stamp program was Rep. Vicky Hartzler of Missouri. Her farm received more than $800,000 in Department of Agriculture subsidies from 1995-2012. In 2001, her farm received $135,482 in subsidies.

Rep. Kristi Noem of South Dakota, who also voted to make cuts to the program, was a partner in Racota Valley Ranch, her family’s farm and previously had nearly a 17% stake through 2008. The farm received $3.4 million in subsidies from 1995-2012. The Environmental Working Group, which analyzes subsidy data, says the “estimated amount of subsidies attributed to Rep. Noem from 1995-2012 is $503,751.”

Rep. Marlin Stutzman, a Republican Rep. from Indiana also received his fair share of government subsidies. He personally took in nearly $200,000 for the farm he co-owns with his father.

According to the New York Times Stutzman said Thursday the bill cutting food stamps by $39 billion over the next ten years “eliminates loopholes, ensures work requirements, and puts us on a fiscally responsible path.”

These Republicans Who Voted To Cut Food Stamps Personally Received Large Farm Subsidies

This is the same type of posting style that got BM suspended. Just lefty crap instead of righty. Cut and paste crap ...

He is spot on because the right wing believes; socialism? For me only!

Originally Posted by Rainfall

He is spot on because the right wing believes; socialism? For me only!

I think it's universal, Rainfall.

I used to say this to these so-called "socialists" Vietnamese I met in Vietnam.

I used to repeat this saying:

Socialism defined:

"What's mine is mine, and what's yours is all of ours."

Originally Posted by barbaro

Originally Posted by Rainfall

He is spot on because the right wing believes; socialism? For me only!

I think it's universal, Rainfall.

I used to say this to these so-called "socialists" Vietnamese I met in Vietnam.

I used to repeat this saying:

Socialism defined:

"What's mine is mine, and what's yours is all of ours."

But don't you think the gap between the haves and have nots has grown way out of proportion since the 70s? The rich just getting richer and even worse they're starting to act like they have some sort of birth right to wealth ... like they're royalty or something wanting to give the peasants a smaller and smaller piece of the pie.

6 kids. How many different fathers? Any child support being paid?

Oops. Food Stamp computer glitch.

EBT Food Stamp System Crash: "How Am I Going to Feed My Family?" - YouTube

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Originally Posted by barbaro

6 kids. How many different fathers? Any child support being paid?

Oops. Food Stamp computer glitch.

EBT Food Stamp System Crash: "How Am I Going to Feed My Family?" - YouTube

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With close to 50 million Americans relying on EBT to put food on the table an extended outage could get ugly quick, but from what I've read it seems this was a temporary glitch.

Who cares how many fathers Barbaro? Should kids' food be dependent upon the lifestyle of their parents? Food stamp eligibility is based on gross and net income and includes child support. Gross income limits are established by the federal government and adjusted annually.

Certainly there is abuse in the system and it must be addressed, but I wonder if there have been any studies that try to estimate how many recipients are abusing the system?

More on that EBT system “glitch” temporarily eliminated card limits.

Thanks to the fact that the card holders all have Obamaphones, they advised all their social network friends with EBT cards of this manna from heaven.



It was like Christmas…only free!



Shoppers abandoned carts at Walmart when EBT glitch was fixed.

Ripped from here

That thin veneer of 'civilization' is getting thinner by the day with Democrats and their enablers in power...

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

That thin veneer of 'civilization' is getting thinner by the day with Democrats and their enablers in power.

This from a Teabagger.

Originally Posted by TonyBKK

Originally Posted by barbaro

6 kids. How many different fathers? Any child support being paid?

Oops. Food Stamp computer glitch.

EBT Food Stamp System Crash: "How Am I Going to Feed My Family?" - YouTube

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With close to 50 million Americans relying on EBT to put food on the table an extended outage could get ugly quick, but from what I've read it seems this was a temporary glitch.

The problem is, close to 50 million are NOT relying on food stamps. It's an extra fill.

Who cares how many fathers Barbaro? Should kids' food be dependent upon the lifestyle of their parents?

People like this are bottom-feeders. How much child support is she getting?

Food stamp eligibility is based on gross and net income and includes child support. Gross income limits are established by the federal government and adjusted annually.

Certainly there is abuse in the system and it must be addressed, but I wonder if there have been any studies that try to estimate how many recipients are abusing the system?

Agreed, but the net has been widened so much. The net for eligibility.

Originally Posted by barbaro

Originally Posted by TonyBKK

Originally Posted by barbaro

6 kids. How many different fathers? Any child support being paid?

Oops. Food Stamp computer glitch.

EBT Food Stamp System Crash: "How Am I Going to Feed My Family?" - YouTube

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With close to 50 million Americans relying on EBT to put food on the table an extended outage could get ugly quick, but from what I've read it seems this was a temporary glitch.

The problem is, close to 50 million are NOT relying on food stamps. It's an extra fill.

^ Do you know this for a fact or is it supposition? This last recession was brutal and has created a huge new class of working poor- people who work full time but still live in poverty because these crap jobs don't pay a living wage.

Who cares how many fathers Barbaro? Should kids' food be dependent upon the lifestyle of their parents?

People like this are bottom-feeders. How much child support is she getting?

You don't know a thing about the woman in the video other than the fact she has 6 children. Does she work or is she a full time mom to her 6 kids? Does she receive child support? Who knows?

Food stamp eligibility is based on gross and net income and includes child support. Gross income limits are established by the federal government and adjusted annually.

Certainly there is abuse in the system and it must be addressed, but I wonder if there have been any studies that try to estimate how many recipients are abusing the system?

Agreed, but the net has been widened so much. The net for eligibility.

^ Has it? Have the standards been lowered? A link to substantiate this claim sure would be nice

Originally Posted by sabang

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

That thin veneer of 'civilization' is getting thinner by the day with Democrats and their enablers in power.

This from a Teabagger.

Your post makes utterly no sense at all.

A smaller, more responsible government and an adherence to the Constitution and Bill of Rights is some how wrong?

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Originally Posted by sabang

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

That thin veneer of 'civilization' is getting thinner by the day with Democrats and their enablers in power.

This from a Teabagger.

Your post makes utterly no sense at all.

A smaller, more responsible government and an adherence to the Constitution and Bill of Rights is some how wrong?

You make no sense ever. The bullshit you suggest has been tried continiously since Reagan, and nothing trickles down. It's streaming up. People with full-time jobs are on foodstamps in the dozens of millions because their private employers pay wages too low for a living. Meanwhile, more than $ 1 trillion is lost every year in the US to means of tax evasion open to corporations and very rich individuals only, funds that could finance the food stamps many times over. Not the government or the worker suck the economy dry, but the enemy of the US are the rich.

Originally Posted by barbaro

People like this are bottom-feeders. How much child support is she getting?

So you want to starve children to inflict retribution for bad decisions made by their parents?

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Obamaphones

You mean Lifeline right? The program created during the Reagan Administration and expanded in 2005 to cover mobile phones.

Originally Posted by quimbian corholla

Originally Posted by barbaro

People like this are bottom-feeders. How much child support is she getting?

So you want to starve children to inflict retribution for bad decisions made by their parents?

Of course not.

Why would you ask that?

Sickening…Aunt Cares More About Foodstamps Than Her Nephews



Entitlement Nation or what?

Poor White Cash: GOP and Food Stamps

Republicans have become so deluded that they're engaged in class warfare against their own loyal voters.

(The Root) -- The Republican Party is engaged in class warfare against poor and middle-class white Americans. It is a little-discussed fact but an ironic one worth noting, since those are the very same people who elect them.
This week, House Republicans passed a nutrition bill that eliminates $39 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, previously known as food stamps. Nearly 47 million Americans currently rely on SNAP -- roughly 15 percent of the population -- and 17.6 million U.S. households are considered food insecure, which means they aren't sure where their next meal will come from. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (pdf), nearly 17 million of these people are children, 5 million are seniors and 300,000 are elderly veterans.
And despite prevailing racial stereotypes, which first became mainstream during President Ronald Reagan's tenure and his propagation of the myth of a "welfare queen" from the South Side of Chicago, the overwhelming majority of food stamp recipients are white. And curiously, many of them are Republicans. USDA data show that in 2011, 37 percent of food stamp users (pdf) were from white, non-Hispanic households.


Republican Cut in Food Stamps Hurts GOP Voters

Originally Posted by TonyBKK

[B]the overwhelming majority of food stamp recipients are white. And curiously, many of them are Republicans. USDA data show that in 2011, 37 percent of food stamp users (pdf) were from white, non-Hispanic households.

I've long known this statistic, but how can 37% be considered an "overwhelming majority?"

Originally Posted by barbaro

Originally Posted by TonyBKK

[b]the overwhelming majority of food stamp recipients are white. And curiously, many of them are Republicans. USDA data show that in 2011, 37 percent of food stamp users (pdf) were from white, non-Hispanic households.

I've long known this statistic, but how can 37% be considered an "overwhelming majority?"

Indeed...

Originally Posted by barbaro

Originally Posted by TonyBKK

[b]the overwhelming majority of food stamp recipients are white. And curiously, many of them are Republicans. USDA data show that in 2011, 37 percent of food stamp users (pdf) were from white, non-Hispanic households.

I've long known this statistic, but how can 37% be considered an "overwhelming majority?"

You are welcome to look it up if you don't believe me. Unlike Boontard I base my statements in FACT

Originally Posted by barbaro

I've long known this statistic, but how can 37% be considered an "overwhelming majority?"

Because it is the "overwhelming majority" OF FOOD STAMP RECIPIENTS. Which is what Tony wrote.

Are you really incapable of comprehending a single short sentence?

Notice the part in bold: And who was President during the 1996 job requirement? Clinton who also did welfare reform with bipartisan efforts.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_a...snap_data.html

How Many People Around You Receive Food Stamps?

Slate’s interactive tool for finding local SNAP data.
By Chris Kirk

Since the turn of the millennium, participation in the food stamp program, known officially as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, has more than doubled to 15 percent of all U.S. residents in January. In some parts of the country, as few as 1 in 20 people receive food stamps. In others, the figure is more than 1 in 3. Low-income households that meet SNAP eligibility requirements receive a payment card that can only be used to buy government-approved essential foods.


Under President Obama’s watch, the value of the benefits distributed by the program each year has more than doubled as more people have fallen below the poverty line and more households have joined the program. Obama has expanded eligibility under the theory that it helps the economy, which led Newt Gingrich to dub him the “food stamp president” early in the 2012 election season. Due to the high unemployment rate, the Obama administration has also waived a 1996 job requirement—a rule that made finding a job or enrolling in job training a prerequisite for receiving SNAP benefits—for 46 states. Republican leaders are trying to reinstate the requirement to counteract the program’s escalating cost.

To find out how many people participate in the program in your area and how that number has changed since 2000, enter your ZIP code, city, or county and state in the widget below.

At link:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_a...snap_data.html

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