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EEO

(1,620 posts) Sat May 2, 2015, 12:26 PM May 2015

GOP Seeks to Cut Vegetables, Fruits, Grains, Meats, and Dairy from SNAP Benefits

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GOP Seeks to Cut Vegetables, Fruits, Grains, Meats, and Dairy from SNAP Benefits
Source: The Nil Admirari

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WASHINGTON, D.C. (The Nil Admirari): This morning the GOP announced it was updating its party platform to put strict limitations on what food Americans enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) can buy. Chairman of the Republican National Committee Reince Priebus stated Republicans would seek to prevent SNAP recipients from using their benefits to purchase "vegetables, fruits, grains, meats, and dairy."

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Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz responded to the new Republican platform by stating, "Republicans know the vast majority of states that take more money in welfare from Washington than they pay in federal taxes are red states, right?"

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GOP Seeks to Cut Vegetables, Fruits, Grains, Meats, and Dairy from SNAP Benefits (Original Post) EEO May 2015 OP

So what is left?? oldandhappy May 2015 #1

Eliminating ALL food under SNAP HockeyMom May 2015 #2

If you are poor or a minority or gay, the republican party hates you and wants you dead NoJusticeNoPeace May 2015 #3

Disagree!!! God Damn it! busterbrown May 2015 #6

OH yeah, forgot. But they would prefer they be from Mexico, undocumented, that way they can NoJusticeNoPeace May 2015 #7

Or consider room and food as compensation ..n/t busterbrown May 2015 #9

Only until we improve robotics enough to take care of these tasks. malthaussen May 2015 #12

I'm assuming this is satire Kber May 2015 #4

It is, but there should be a Poe's Law for politics Warpy May 2015 #5

Yes. It is very difficuly. EEO May 2015 #8

I’ve become numb..n/t busterbrown May 2015 #10

Totally understandable. EEO May 2015 #11

Democrats need to hammer the Republicans on stuff like avebury May 2015 #13

oldandhappy

(6,719 posts)

1. So what is left??

Reply to EEO (Original post)

Sat May 2, 2015, 12:30 PM

May 2015

Fruit and veggies might be required under my law!

HockeyMom

(14,337 posts)

2. Eliminating ALL food under SNAP

Reply to EEO (Original post)

Sat May 2, 2015, 12:34 PM

May 2015

effectively is a way to END SNAP. Cute. People won't figure out their hidden agenda?

NoJusticeNoPeace

(5,018 posts)

3. If you are poor or a minority or gay, the republican party hates you and wants you dead

Reply to EEO (Original post)

Sat May 2, 2015, 12:40 PM

May 2015

or out of the way entirely.

I wish this was an exaggeration, it is not.

busterbrown

(8,515 posts)

6. Disagree!!! God Damn it!

Reply to NoJusticeNoPeace (Reply #3)

Sat May 2, 2015, 12:59 PM

May 2015

They need the poor to raise their kids, wash their cars, and water their yards..

NoJusticeNoPeace

(5,018 posts)

7. OH yeah, forgot. But they would prefer they be from Mexico, undocumented, that way they can

Reply to busterbrown (Reply #6)

Sat May 2, 2015, 01:03 PM

May 2015

pay them $3 an hour

busterbrown

(8,515 posts)

9. Or consider room and food as compensation ..n/t

Reply to NoJusticeNoPeace (Reply #7)

Sat May 2, 2015, 01:35 PM

May 2015

malthaussen

(17,216 posts)

12. Only until we improve robotics enough to take care of these tasks.

Reply to busterbrown (Reply #6)

Sat May 2, 2015, 03:42 PM

May 2015

However, I do think they need an underclass to piss on and feel superior to, although they can have that even if the death rate is very high, especially if abortion is made illegal again.

-- Mal

Kber

(5,043 posts)

4. I'm assuming this is satire

Reply to EEO (Original post)

Sat May 2, 2015, 12:41 PM

May 2015

More from the article

Asked what items Americans on SNAP could purchase under the proposed Republican restrictions Priebus said, "Definitely water and maybe Hot Pockets or something."

Warpy

(111,338 posts)

5. It is, but there should be a Poe's Law for politics

Reply to Kber (Reply #4)

Sat May 2, 2015, 12:49 PM

May 2015

because it's not that far off other restrictions other GOPers have proposed, like bans on fish for SNAP benefits.

GOP scum really would like to make everything healthful off limits, forcing anyone who needs benefits to live on processed crap, only, getting sicker every day as punishment for daring to be poor.

It's hard to satirize these dirtbags because they try to top it the next day.

EEO

(1,620 posts)

8. Yes. It is very difficuly.

Reply to Warpy (Reply #5)

Sat May 2, 2015, 01:22 PM

May 2015

'Nil admirari' is Latin for 'to be surprised by nothing.'

busterbrown

(8,515 posts)

10. I’ve become numb..n/t

Reply to EEO (Original post)

Sat May 2, 2015, 01:39 PM

May 2015

EEO

(1,620 posts)

11. Totally understandable.

Reply to busterbrown (Reply #10)

Sat May 2, 2015, 03:01 PM

May 2015

We are dealing with mean and unreasonable people.

avebury

(10,952 posts)

13. Democrats need to hammer the Republicans on stuff like

Reply to EEO (Original post)

Sat May 2, 2015, 08:42 PM

May 2015

this as we work up to the 2016 election.

If there is any party that has death panels, it is the Republican Party. If the Democrats don't start to hammer away at the Republicans and drive home to the people of this country how all these policies/laws will impact them then they are flat out stupid.

When you want to win over people you have to show them what is in it for them (or in the instance of the Republicans, how their laws and policies will harm them).

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