GOP Meme-Anyone Getting SNAP, UI, Welfare or Govt Assistance Must Participate In Work Program.

[TheMastersNemesis]

The GOP insists that people getting government assistance must participate in work program while on assistance. No slackers or takers allowed. Assistance encourages laziness and vagrancy.

This meme just came up on the Ed Schultz show. The GOP is essentially accusing the Dems of enabling slackers and takers. It is part of the Ryan "hammock" metaphor.

[2pooped2pop]

1. slavery is it then? n/t

[TheMastersNemesis]

3. The GOP Is Part Of The You Don't Eat If You Don't Work Party.

[2pooped2pop]

5. yeah, I know

and I do think welfare recipients need to be working when possible but it seems like if you make it a blanket thing, it would eventually lead to people working for the government for their food. It just sounds kind of slavery-ish to me.

The republican party does loosen it's rules though when it becomes them in need. I've heard many people bitch about welfare and not wanting to pay for this or that, but once they are put into that situation, where they need help, suddenly a little welfare is well deserved, it seems.

[raging moderate]

2. Most of these people are ALREADY WORKING!

WHY do the GOP repeatedly try to float this lie of indolence among low-income workers?

[TheMastersNemesis]

4. They Can Fly It Because They Have A Media That Will Carry Their Message With NO Dissent.

[OnionPatch]

13. I was just going to post the same thing.

Boy does this "lazy" meme piss me off. Most of them ARE working! My mother worked full time when we were getting food stamps. And she worked her ass off and came home with little burns on her arms from the spot welding she did and swollen ankles from being on her feet all day. I'd like to see a Con tell me she didn't deserve a living wage!

In fact, I can't think of a single person I've known who received food stamps that wasn't working. SNAP is basically a subsidy for companies who pay slave wages!

[VanillaRhapsody]

6. Cheap Labor Conservatives....

its all they are....they just want to find some way....any way...to make people work for less money...its a sick obsession for them.

[wandy]

9. It is only an obsession for them because it is in the best interest of the.........

GOP "stakeholders".
The GOP represents power, wealth and corporate. Period.
Anything the GOP can do to insure maximum profit is what is expected of them.

Again I ask, can you name one thing in you're lifetime that the GOP has done for the common good?

[VanillaRhapsody]

14. No I can't and I am not member of the GOP!

I am a life long Democrat...I always ask that question of Republicans!

[upaloopa]

7. And the union workhouses are they still in

operation? Demanded Scrooge

[2naSalit]

8. The TRUTH IS

that you must be registered with Job Service AND be actively seeking work to qualify for SNAP (made law back when Clinton was "changing welfare as we know it&quot . I know this is true because I'm on SNAP and can't have them if I don't actively submit at least one application for work/week whether there are any jobs or not. It's pretty hard to stay on top of when there aren't any jobs to apply for that "are reasonable jobs that I qualify for and can do"... when many are over a hundred miles from here, pay $7.?? an hour and don't pay for relocation.

F*cking scumbags rich f*cks who haven't got a clue and probably never earned an honest dollar in their sorry lives making up rules with high hurdles that most poor can't leap over let alone crawl over.

[TheMastersNemesis]

10. I Used To Work For Colorado Job Service.

I certainly understand. Though when I was there we did not work with SNAP recipients then. I left in 1998 retired. It looks like they attached the registration requirement when they changed the program to SNAP. We registered unemployment program recipients and worked with the general public. We also ran special programs. I originally worked for a welfare to work program in the mid 1970's call the Work Incentive Program (WIN). Clinton screwed the welfare program up. And Reagan screwed up our very successful program that I had worked for 6 years.

I am quite familiar with the routine. I did not usually hassle anyone because jobs were difficult to come by even then.

[Oilwellian]

11. The poor are also limited by...

the availability of child care. There are not enough child care providers nor government funds to pay for that child care. What the GOP is suggesting would be very expensive.

[justiceischeap]

15. Let's not forget about transportation

A lot of the poor don't have cars because, they're poor. They have to take public transportation. Couple that with the lack of child care that allows said parent to get to work on time (usually has to leave extremely early to get to work on time) and the poor person is stuck. I had to take the bus to work yesterday. In order for me to get to work by 8, I had to catch the 6:15 bus, which was about twenty minutes late, which made me about...twenty minutes late. I can get away with that in my job but some poor schmo, working a minimum wage job isn't going to have lateness tolerated.

[jwirr]

12. My local paper once had an editorial that said something like that so I wrote a resume for my

severely disabled daughter and sent it into them. She does not walk, talk, cannot dress herself and needs a hands on helper to do most everything in her life. She was part of our food stamp grant when she lived with me.

So rethugs where is the job for her?

[0rganism]

16. i don't suppose this means they'd be willing to reactivate the WPA?

You know, ensure that anyone who wants to work has a job rebuilding our nations crumbling infrastructure? No? Not surprising.

[raging moderate]

17. They want to accidentally on-purpose cause the deaths of millions of people. Maybe billions.

And terrorize and tyrannize all the people they allow to keep breathing.

This is the conclusion that seems to best explain most of their actions during most of my lifetime.