Buried Provision In House GOP Bill Would Cut Off Food Stamps To Entire Families If One Member Strike

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/03/23/buried-provision-food-stamps/

By Zaid Jilani on Mar 23rd, 2011 at 8:00 pm
Buried Provision In House GOP Bill Would Cut Off Food Stamps To Entire Families If One Member Strikes
All around the country, right-wing legislators are asking middle class Americans to pay for budget deficits caused mainly by a recession caused by Wall Street; they are attacking workers’ collective bargaining rights, which has provoked a huge Main Street Movement to fight back.

Now, a group of House Republicans is launching a new stealth attack against union workers. GOP Reps. Jim Jordan (OH), Tim Scott (SC), Scott Garrett (NJ), Dan Burton (IN), and Louie Gohmert (TX) have introduced H.R. 1135, which states that it is designed to “provide information on total spending on means-tested welfare programs, to provide additional work requirements, and to provide an overall spending limit on means-tested welfare programs.”

Much of the bill is based upon verifying that those who receive food stamps benefits are meeting the federal requirements for doing so. However, one section buried deep within the bill adds a startling new requirement. The bill, if passed, would actually cut off all food stamp benefits to any family where one adult member is engaging in a strike against an employer:



The bill also includes a provision that would exempt households from losing eligibility, “if the household was eligible immediately prior to such strike, however, such family unit shall not receive an increased allotment as the result of a decrease in the income of the striking member or members of the household.”...

People will vote them out of office when their bellies are rumbling and their is no food in the frig.

It's worked for the right so far. Screw the workers and blame the left.

:grr: :banghead: :argh: :nuke:

:wow:

Or am I still just such a hilarious extremist and nothing bad will come of that bill?

It's only war if we fight back. Then it is WE who are waging war against THEM.

Kind of like the truism, there is no such thing as shooting a cop in self-defense.

It's existed in California (one of the most "liberal" states) for some time.

This just makes it a federal mandate.

Despicable, yes. But it's not at all new.

Also, consider this: It is extremely unlikely that a person would have a decent union job AND qualify for food stamps.

it applies to family members

As I said, not really anything new.

I WORK in the food stamps and cash aid field. I know whereof I speak.

"It is extremely unlikely that a person would have a decent union job AND qualify for food stamps."

and that is the part I was referring to

stating that any Republican who proposes legislation designed to harm the poor and middle class automatically gets placed in a 50% income tax bracket.