Missouri to Needy: Drop Dead and Die Hungry

[KamaAina]

http://reverbpress.com/justice/missouri-needy-drop-dead-die-hungry/

Empathy and Compassion are dead in Missouri, killed off by the Senate of The Show Me State.

Yesterday the Missouri Senate voted to override a veto signed by Governor Jay Nixon (D). The veto override was on MO SB24, a bill which would drastically slash benefits under Missouri’s TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) program. How drastically? The national average eligibility period for TANF benefits is five years: MO SB24 cuts this timeline for struggling Missourians to three years and nine months. What does this mean? The Missouri Social Services Department estimates that 3,155 families, including 6,400 children – and 2,600 children under the age of 5 – will lose their average monthly TANF benefit of $228.

Does anybody in government even remotely give a shit anymore? Can someone pretend to for at least five minutes?...

Blame the poor for their own condition, toot on the dog whistles (“personal responsibility”, “hard work” – or, even better – “dependence on government”), dehumanize the humans, slash programs to the point where they don’t work in order to prove that they don’t work. Don’t bother looking at the actual cause and effect, don’t bother addressing the systemic injustices. Slash and burn, and screw all the riff-raff.

[ladjf]

1. The doctrine of Republicanism is pathologically cruel. nt

[hifiguy]

2. I've said for a long while that a passive cull of the undesirables by

starvation, disease and deliberate neglect has been bubbling around in reichwing circles for at least a couple of decades. They are now putting it into practice. Letting 10-20% of the population just die off is easier and less attention-grabbing than building camps and much cheaper to boot.

[questionseverything]

3. before clinton's welfare reform

there was not a 5 year limit, was there?

[gratuitous]

4. And the majority keep voting for this

Apparently convinced that they'll never be on the receiving end of the cruelty . . . until they are.

[central scrutinizer]

5. post partum abortion by starvation

nice touch, family values party! What's next, spitting on anybody who tries to use their food stamps

[benld74]

6. More misery for Missouri, by your not so friendly neighborhood GOP