Comment on Killing SNAP benefits now is demanding a Blue Congress next election.
foodandart@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
I think the play was 100% Mike Johnson going “Let’s not swear in the newest Democratic Representative from Arizona and prevent the Epstein Files from being released in full…” and him teling the Republican GOP congressmen to leave went further than he expected, and rolled into the ACA tax subsidy collapse and then the SNAP fiasco.
The congressmen are just as blind as the rest of conservative, middle-class America as to how large the demographc of white Americans on welfare really is.
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yep, got out of control on him, exactly as you say.
But I disagree that Congress is clueless here. They know, they’re gambling on pushing the “Democrats are the problem!” message. FFS, they’re putting that exact message on federal websites! Said message isn’t really catching on.
Wrong again, I always said our corporate and government masters would screw us out of everything but food. Circuses all day! But circuses must come with bread. Humans will put up with about anything as long as we know where our next meal is coming from. (LOL, I have a hard time suspending disbelief when reading/watching fiction; How is our hero to EAT?!)
12.3% of the population on SNAP is a significant number. Considering you have to be 130% under the poverty line to apply, Haysus, that’s a lot of mad, desperate people.