WTF?

[Playinghardball]

[Scuba]

1. "Almost like"????

[enlightenment]

3. It was the right way to put it.

If he had said "it's welfare for wealthy people" then somebody would be jumping all over the comment, comparing the farm subsidies to welfare and saying that they aren't the same, at all, at all . . .

Adding a modifier, even if everyone knows the truth, sometimes keeps the wolves at bay.

[Dawson Leery]

2. k/r

[Mass]

4. Actually, the GOP has since passed a SNAP bill separated from the Farm bill

a terrible bill that cut $40 billion.

This said, I blame the Dems partly for this. There was a bill negotiated between the GOP and the Dems that cut only $11 billion ( ). The GOP added a couple poisoned amendments and the Democrats refused to vote for it as did the Tea Party (too many SNAP funds). This is how we ended up where we were.

I understand that Dems did not like the amendments added, but this is why we have conferences. Add to this that the conference would have to negotiate between a $4billion cut (senate version) and a 11 billion cut (initial House bill) rather than $40 billion. Guess which negotiation would have helped poor people the most.

Yes, the GOP are horrible, but sometimes you have to work with these horrible people to help people and decide what matters to you.

[A Simple Game]

20. No, that would be guess which negotiation would hurt poor people the least.

Neither would help them at all.

When the Republicans propose $40 billion in cuts the Democrats should propose a $60 billion increase. They need to learn how to negotiate.

[whathehell]

5. Good for Bob Schieffer!! n/t

[SheilaT]

6. And what was the Representative's Response?

[QuestForSense]

7. Weak, as you would expect.

Kelly defended the House plan to pass the bill in separate parts, saying they had tried to put a bigger piece of legislation together, but couldn’t reach an agreement and had been forced to go another route.

Asked by Schieffer if the money would still come, he said “absolutely."

“I have never talked to one person who said we do not want to take care of the most vulnerable,” he said.

“What bothers me is that one in six Americans is on this program,” he said. “We’re wasting billions on a program that’s not lifting people from poverty, but keeping them in.”

Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), also a guest on "Face the Nation," scoffed at Kelly’s suggestion that food stamps were working to keep people down.

“It’s because their wages and incomes are so low," Durbin said. "They’re working but they can’t feed their children. It isn’t a matter of defrauding American tax payers.”

http://www.politico.com/

[SheilaT]

13. I do wish the Democrats would keep on harping on the fact that so many

are on food stamps because they're so poor, NOT because they are gaming the system.

The ones gaming the system are the ones taking money for not growing crops.

[Jackpine Radical]

18. So many are on food stamps because they work at Mall Wart, McDouchebag's

& K Wart.

Those corporations rely on the public purse to provide enough nutrition to keep their wage slaves alive, and then have the gall to push for cuts to the system.

[ReRe]

8. K&R

I don't watch the Sunday shows because it makes my BP soar, and especially when I watch old Bob with his leading winger questions to his winger guests. Actually, it's kind of hard to believe that question came out of his mouth (but I'm sure it did, since you say so Playinghardball.)

[Enthusiast]

12. I agree. It's shocking that old Bob would say this.............nt

[ReRe]

14. Well, the quote was dated July 2013...

... if someone on DU doesn't catch things and report on it, I would never know cause like I said, I just can't watch the winger Sunday morning shows, especially Candy Crowley on CNN.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

9. I guess I have to go through this again....

Republicans are fucking lazy idiots who are WAY overpaid and just ASSUME that ANYONE can be an overpaid idiot because it was EASY for them.

[freshwest]

10. The message has never changed. Kill the Poor. Some people don't believe it. Quite naive. n/t

[lonestarnot]

16. Simply amazing isn't it.

[Enthusiast]

11. What kind of message is that?

It's the corporate America message. And you ain't seen nothing yet.

[RC]

15. There, fixed it for ya.

[Fla Dem]

17. Shocked I tell you I'm shocked! Bob Schieffer asking a RW turd a tough question. nt

[L0oniX]

19. Obviously corporate farms have not bought enough commercial air time.

Media extortion fail.