Agriculture secretary: Trump is restoring the 'dignity' of hungry people by taking away food stamps

[workinclasszero]

DAVID EDWARDS 20 DEC 2018 AT 10:59 ET

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue insisted on Thursday that the Trump administration was helping to restore the “dignity” of hungry people by withholding food stamps if they cannot find a job.

The Trump administration announced this week that it was toughening the requirements for welfare benefits in areas with high unemployment. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) already requires beneficiaries to work, but states are able to obtain waivers to the rule. Under the Trump administration’s proposed changes, those waivers would be reduced by 75 percent.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/12/agriculture-secretary-trump-restoring-dignity-hungry-people-taking-away-food-stamps/

[underpants]

1. Do the poor whites still have an exception?

MAGA

[Demsrule86]

18. Yes, the clue was 'in areas where there is high unemployment'...IE Black areas.

[HopeAgain]

2. Jesus would be proud, Mr Perdue

[workinclasszero]

5. Yep starve children and call it restoring dignity

There's the "Christian", "pro-life" party for you folks!

[Buckeyeblue]

3. Ever read Kafka's The Hunger Artist?

[Guppy]

4. This douchebag used to be our governor

his cousin is our senator. ugh.

[Achilleaze]

6. "Yah, dignity. Snarf. Good bullshit point. Ha ha." - Dirty Donny* (R)

* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief & Slippery Casino Hustler

[smirkymonkey]

7. Miserable bastard!

[workinclasszero]

12. Since being installed as POTUS Fat Donny has spent 83 MILLION taxpayer dollars on ****ing golf!!!!!!

83 MILLION that could have filled hungry American bellies, but Trump WASTES it on damn golf games and calls it giving dignity to the poor!!


TRUMP GOLF COUNT: 154*


Cost to Taxpayer: About $84,000,000**

https://trumpgolfcount.com/#page-top

[smirkymonkey]

15. It's obscene, isn't it.

I swear, some days I just want to beat my head against the wall. I am so frustrated by the stupidity and cruelty of this administration I feel like I am going mad.

[workinclasszero]

16. It's criminal to me!

Impeachable even, just add it to the ever growing pile of corruption, treason and criminality of the worst excuse of a POTUS this country has ever suffered under!

[Danascot]

21. SNAP benefits cost $70.9 billion in fiscal year 2016

per Wikipedia

[ck4829]

8. Caffeine to stave off feelings of hunger has become a way of life for me

I also work though, so there's that.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

9. Now there's a guy in need of a good ass kicking

[Freethinker65]

10. Perhaps Trump can employ them at sub-minimum wage at his Trump owned properties?

Then he would no longer have to employ those that are undocumented nor apply for foreign worker visas.

[jayschool2013]

11. Double-plus ungood.

Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.

[Cha]

13. "dignity" like the fucking Traitortrump has?

Fuck your "dignity".. you fucking fascist assholes.

[Volaris]

14. Ah, yes...the Poverty as Nobility approach.

If correct, it says quite a lot about the likes of both Dear Leader, and his cohorts such as the Koch Brothers, doesn't it?

[AJT]

17. This disgusting, the GOP answer to generational poverty is

throwing people in the deep end before teaching them to swim.
Does anyone have an opinion as to how to break the cycle of generational poverty? People raised in homes where the parents and grand parents have never had steady work? Where people live in communities where most of the people live in poverty and they are surrounded by drugs and violence. These communities have dismal graduation rates and teachers are starved for funding. This situation is an issue in both rural and urban communities. How do we deal with these issues as a society?

[msongs]

19. feed the hungry is not part of their cultural heritage nt

[elocs]

20. Well food stamps haven't been 'stamps' for a long time now

and my food snap card is just a debit card like so many others so there is no loss of dignity in my using it.