another day. When the gop get in hot water...attack the safety nets. The kid next door says his food stamps(?) are down to 15.00 a month. That cow has left the barn it seems.

Better days are coming. Not far off. Keep your chin up.

Sadly, there are several people in the White House that can be described as "crazy assholes."

Less than 1%. Multiple states have tried it, all with the same results.

Food stamps are so meager to begin with, practically a dollar a day. Republicans just have to stick their thumb in your eye.

I hate when journalist or politicians use that word "flexibility" -- it almost always means "screw the poor even more".

grab your wallet and run.

THEY ALWAYS PUNCH DOWN !

It also happens to be a defining characteristic of bullies and cowards.

You can see the pattern clearly if you make a list of their favorite targets:

The poor (i.e. people who rely on "welfare", food stamps, Medicaid, etc.)
The "working poor", who try to live on peanuts, and their related labor unions
Women; especially single women with children
Minorities
Immigrants
People who are LGBTQ
The disabled
And now, the latest addition, the students who are protesting gun violence.

I think another characteristic is that they suppress any feelings of sadness,
pity, empathy, or compassion. Fear and anger rule the day, all day long.

[link:https://thinkprogress.org/what-7-states-discovered-after-spending-more-than-1-million-drug-testing-welfare-recipients-c346e0b4305d/|

Repugs will ignore this.

The statistics show that applicants actually test positive at a lower rate than the drug use of the general population.

and then move on over to the cabinet, then down and across the street move into the Congress, then make a left and then go to the senate------------because these fuckers get to just eat on the taxpayers dime, and I think they should get drugged tested.................fuck this happy horse shit...............

How and the hell do we not know what you are doing with our paychecks to you fuckers............I mean really, that should be a litmus test .

Because the sexual predator is always trying to clear his fascist little nose when he speaks...........ever notice............

Paul "ayn rand" Ryan must have made a call....................


November 2018 cannot get here fast enough

Less money to feed those in need.

How very Republican

Jesus would punch these Republican shitheels in the face

Sorry Johnny, no ramen for you this week. Mommy's painkillers for her service/work-related injury tripped the drug test.

I am a retired senior so I will be exempt from any work requirements. I am under the 100% federal poverty level, live in my own house, and get $32/month in food stamps, down from $39 in January because I got a $15 cost of living increase for Social Security. They must have figured the cost of food went down.

They know it doesn't solve anything, it's just that they hate poor people so much they feel the need to constantly humiliate them.

What does that even mean?

from the link

"The plan would apply to able-bodied people who do not have dependents and are applying for certain jobs, such as operating heavy machinery, the official said."

So...are they actually planning to drug test anyone new, or is this just another sword of Damocles hanging over the poor's head?

they expect them to die.

VOTE THEM OUT!

TRUMP’S EXECUTIVE ORDER ON WORK REQUIREMENTS PUNISHES LOW-INCOME PEOPLE FOR BEING POOR
April 12, 2018

President Trump is quietly curtailing access to social safety nets for our nation’s most vulnerable people.

The executive order he signed this week requiring federal agencies to establish or strengthen work requirements for social services — and reports that his administration is considering a proposal that would allow states to require drug testing for food stamp recipients — is not only heartless, it’s also based on false premises, including the assumption that poor people do not work.

In fact, most low-income adults who are able to work do, and many of the social programs that serve their needs already have work requirements. What’s more, most of the people who receive social services and don’t work are children, elderly or disabled.

There is no evidence that making it harder for poor people to access social programs will reduce poverty.

More:
https://www.splcenter.org/news/2018/04/12/trump%E2%80%99s-executive-order-work-requirements-punishes-low-income-people-being-poor