Taking Away SNAP Benefits...Because The Cruelty IS the Point of This Administration

[sheshe2]

Never EVER forget: The Cruelty IS the Point

The Trump administration plans to gut food stamps, hitting red states hardest

3.6 million Americans will lose food stamps under a regulatory maneuver nobody in Congress likes. 1.9 million of them live in Trump country.

President Donald Trump’s latest attack on working families will hit especially hard in the states that voted for him: More than half of the people who are set to lose access to food stamps under regulations proposed this summer live in states that went for Trump in 2016.

One in every twelve people who receives food stamps nationwide will lose them under the policy — some 3.6 million people, according to new analysis by Mathematica, the private policy analysis firm the Department of Agriculture (USDA) has relied upon for the past 40 years.

“I was surprised by the extent of the impact in some of the southern states, such as Texas,” Mathematica senior research programmer Sarah Lauffer said. The impact was always going to be severe in states that apply the current rules in the most generous fashion, but southern states have generally not extended their eligibility lines quite as far. Despite that, Lauffer said, her team found “34% of elderly Texans receiving benefits will lose them through this rule.”

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[Hortensis]

1. "Watch for mean people."

That was the advice given by a major authority on authoritarian takeovers to people wondering if it could happen to their country.

We have mean people.

[guillaumeb]

2. Imagine many Trump supporters hearing this and saying:

But I voted for him so he would go after "THOSE PEOPLE"!!!

Not white people like me!!

Recommended.

[bdamomma]

3. Between the weather

and tRump they want to systemically decrease the population. One we can control the other, we can't unless we flight for climate change.

[littlemissmartypants]

4. Quote:

"SNAP benefits are beneficial to the economy, because, this is money that is immediately spent and put back into our economy. We’ve already seen the signs of a slowing economy. Take away the buying power of 3.6 MILLION people….you don’t think that won’t have a negative ripple effect upon the economy?"

I wonder if the economy goes into decline will we finally have an Achilles Heel for Frumpy? I hope something turns the worm, though it would be awful and at the expense of the hungry beneficiaries, who are mostly children and the elderly.