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Republican Proposal Would Restrict Free Meal Programs At Thousands Of Americas Poorest Schools
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muntrv
(14,505 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)if you're white. The most likely affected by these changes are poor minorities in the cities, who will grow up to vote for Democrats, or poor white folks in very rural parts of Americas who already vote Republican, so they don't really care.
BlueMTexpat
(15,369 posts)to "they're only pro-life if you're a fetus."
They have NO concern for the post-born - only the pre-born - regardless of color.
63splitwindow
(2,657 posts)so many other people facing extraordinarily difficult decisions and even call them murderers. Pure scum.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)That is a racist stereotype that Clinton used to help make his millions.
More white kids are on food stampsrelief than black ones.
The lie that it is more black folks is what the Clinton's and the Democrats capitalized on.
http://billmoyers.com/2014/05/12/how-bill-clintons-welfare-reform-created-a-system-rife-with-racial-biases/
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Joshua Holland: Slightly fewer than one in three welfare beneficiaries are African-American. But it seems clear from the rhetoric around welfare that a lot of people think of it as a program for blacks. How did that view play into the welfare reforms of the 1990s?
Joe Soss: In the 1980s and 90s, a kind of narrative had emerged that I call the story of illegitimate takings. It held that there were white people who played by the rules, and then there were people of color and particularly black people who were taking from those people in an illegitimate way.
At the time, there was a lot of talk of the pathologies of the underclass. And many believed that it was really these liberal programs that were to blame for what was seen as a kind of crisis of crime and disorder and sexual irresponsibility and welfare dependence and all of these things.
Bill Clinton ran on this idea that he was going to end welfare as we know it. And he was also going to get tougher on crime. He was attempting to reassure white voters, but once the Republicans took Congress, in 1994, Clinton found that he had painted himself into a corner, because of course the Republicans were willing to go much farther in this game than he was.
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So instead of stepping up like a man and educating the country as to the real problems, he/they/we pandered to the worst beliefs of the country.
And here we are, being asked to vote for more of the same.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)jtuck004
(15,882 posts)hungry people? Same logic...
"The most likely affected by these changes are poor minorities in the cities," < There are more white folks in nearly any geographic area, unless you slice your sample so thin as to be meaningless. It affects them just as much, unless one wants to be condescending.
President Obama signs $8.7 billion food stamp cut into law
On Friday, President Obama added his signature to legislation that will cut $8.7 billion in food stamp benefits over the next 10 years, causing 850,000 households to lose an average of $90 per month. The signing of the legislation known as the 2014 Farm Bill occurred at a public event in East Lansing, Mich.
MSNBC LIVE WITH TAMRON HALL , 2/7/14, 3:02 PM ET
Pres. Obama signs Farm Bill
The food stamp cuts are one component of a massive omnibus bill which also includes billions of dollars in crop insurance and various other programs and subsidies involving American agriculture. Before he signed the legislation, President Obama praised it as an example of bipartisan problem-solving that would help create jobs and move the American economy forward.
Congress passed a bipartisan Farm Bill that is going to make a big difference in communities across the country, said the president.
Obamas remarks also focused heavily on economic inequality, which he has previously called the defining challenge of our time. The Farm Bill, he said, would give more Americans a shot at opportunity.
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" a shot at opportunity. > A shot at the opportunity to see if you can find relief while millionaires take it away.
Skittles
(153,169 posts)they are pro-fetus
liberalnarb
(4,532 posts)gademocrat7
(10,659 posts)tclambert
(11,087 posts)Starve the poor kids.
Initech
(100,080 posts)Then everything else will work itself out naturally!
These people are vile, rotten, evil pieces of crap.
Eventually we will have our own home-grown "ISIS" here. To me, although I lack first-hand knowledge, aside from fear of punishment, what motivates a person to fight and die for their country - surely can't be for the type of GOP government that this Congress is offering.
One day the oppressed are going to start listening to someone - someone that is going to be one hell of a lot worse than a Trump, one hell of a lot smarter, and one hell of a lot meaner.... and then, the chickens will truly come home to roost. Trump is the precursor - sadly, I suspect that if things do not change, and within a generation - there will be hell to pay for the U.S.
polynomial
(750 posts)Social science professionals would likely agree with your assumption. That notion home-grown "ISIS" is very real. It can be taken a step further, they worship war tangled with God given reasons similarly as the GOP worship the religious right war machine.
Some intuitively debate they invite American tax money to perpetuate eternal war to break our system. Others even suggest its a form of Nazification of Islam, they have to hate something similarly as Hitler did with Jews.
Many avoid the expression corporate Nazi yet its fits a sweeping example of the news media controlling behavior rather than straightaway reporting. Because money is made
and likely Arab money influence a lot of the stock market.
I believe Steve Hawkins that physics person prediction in an article that reads humans are on their own way to extinction even if there is climate change happening we will kill ourselves.
summerschild
(725 posts)They are cutting out the middle man (the school bully) and snatching the food right out of their hands.
Don't you pray there's a whole mess of karma just waiting for them?!
Martin Eden
(12,870 posts)Those kids need to learn how to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Hunger will motivate them.
Joe Chi Minh
(15,229 posts)of human kindness : the good Baroness Lady Cardboard, Architect and Master-Builder of the UK's rich, modern tapestry of cardboard cities, albeit, as the hapless pawn of the most decadent and louche oligarchs of the 'deep state', having been dumb enough to believe her own publicity in the august organs of their MSM.
Hence : 'It's a funny old world...' As if to say, 'One day, on top of the world, and the next, unceremoniously bundled out, given the bum's rush in that brutal, no-nonsense fashion for which the Tory party are famous... would be 'infamous', were better expected of them. Most decent human beings would die of shame to work in a place where they had erected a statue of such a 'sans culottes' of all that had been decent in the country.
Now, we have Dodgy Dave trying to sell the EU, who in turn, with their TTIP, will turn the multinationals into Monsantos on steroids.
RiverNoord
(1,150 posts)Encourage those kids go home hungry and urge their parent(s) to get out there and make more money!
There are all sorts of public offices that they can run for as Republicans. If someone like Ted Cruz can live on the public teat, you can too! Or start a SuperPAC. They don't really need to do anything, and you can go around asking people for money while your family members draw big salaries as executives!
The Republican way - no free lunches. You have to scam your own way through this life.
47of74
(18,470 posts)Fritz Walter
(4,291 posts)Inglorious Hastert is just one example of the darkened souls of these monsters.
They are altogether evil!
63splitwindow
(2,657 posts)family values
IronLionZion
(45,452 posts)those lazy kids need to pull themselves up!
on a related note, this kind of stuff is happening throughout the federal government. Ask any active duty military about their base galley/mess hall situation. many have been closed and the contract workers fired.
But maybe our hardworking Congress will vote themselves another pay raise and take more vacation.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)red dog 1
(27,817 posts)Yet another example of "Compassionate Conservatism"
raging moderate
(4,305 posts)Well, it teaches children how to watch the clock, anyway. "Now it's only one hour thirty minutes until I can eat my mayonnaise sandwich....now it's only one hour twenty minutes until I can eat my mayonnaise sandwich....now it's only one hour ten minutes until I can eat my mayonnaise sandwich..." And if you think that stops after lunch, well, NOT if lunch is only a mayonnaise sandwich!
The Jungle 1
(4,552 posts)Now be fair, republicans have to round up their corporate welfare payments if they expect to get elected.
My state of pa is the perfect example. Republicans ran this state for the last four years. We finally got a Democrat Governor. However while under republican leadership corporate taxes were slashed. Education funding was also slashed. They have not made payments to the public pension system in many years. Philadelphia schools have a 50% drop out rate.
So did it work, is our economy booming. Hell no we have total fiscal failure in Pa.
We lag the nation in job creation.
We have a 54 billion pension bomb
Our general fund is in the red
Our schools are failing
Our infrastructure is falling apart
Our youth is leaving.
Mean while republicans still get massive campaign money form corporations.
Is this why people are being arrested in Washington? I want my country back!!!
Grins
(7,218 posts)Shouldn't they be voting to repeal Obamacare or something rather than this pathetic shit?