Trump GOP Announces Plan To STRIP 10 Million People Of Food Stamps.

[CousinIT]

Poor and disabled Americans will die if Republicans get their way. Trump’s GOP just announced a budget to cut aid to the poor and needy by billions of dollars and take food from 10 million needy Americans.

The Republican budget, crafted by the man with no soul, Paul Ryan, takes a chainsaw to Medicaid, food stamps, Pell grants, Supplemental Security Income, and anything else that makes life more tolerable for the poor.

The proposals would remove 14 to 20 million people off the Medicaid rolls and 10 million people off food stamps. In fact, 62% of the cuts from the budget are to programs that assist the poor and moderate-income Americans.

. . .

This cruelty by the federal and state governments towards the needy will result in many Americans going to bed hungry, unable to afford a college education, and without shelter. To sum it up, Congress will fail nearly 100 million Americans for a larger defense budget.

Robert Greenstein, the founder and president of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and Washington’s leading advocate for poor and low-income Americans, said the following:

“I’ve been working on these issues since 1972. This is by far the gravest threat to the safety net, and to low-income people, that I’ve seen in my close to half a century of working on these issues. I think there’s a potential in the first seven months, by the August recess, for Congress to pass policies that do more to increase poverty and hardship and widen inequality than we’ve seen in half a century.”

http://www.learnprogress.org/gop-strip-food-stamps/

[WinkyDink]

1. At least they won't need health insurance then. Win-win!

[infidelsavant]

2. Yes, cut from the poor so Trump can eat a 10 million dollar dinner.

Makes perfect sense to me.

[Hekate]

19. Three weekends at Mar-a-Loco! Woo-hoo!

[caroldansen]

3. Republicans have always done that. The aristocrats did terrible things to the poor and middle class

then there was the French revolution. The aristocrats lost.

[Kittycow]

6. Don't forget the later years in America when Pinkerton Detectives

bashed workers heads in.

[Kittycow]

4. It was nice knowin' ya America. ...

[TBA]

5. All of those slackers vote Dem anyway

so they can get more stuff.( I don't know where the sarcasm thingy is)

[marybourg]

11. "smilies",

bottom of page,
". . ."
"Sarcasm"

[Marthe48]

17. Thanks!

I never knew

[Panich52]

7. After 8 years, #WarOnthePoor makes a comeback :(

[nikibatts]

8. How did we get from "free college tuition" to taking meals from the disabled and elderly?

And what was your and my role in getting here?

[mercuryblues]

10. her emails

[lunasun]

29. and Benghazi baloney

[Hekate]

27. Benghazi. Emails. Comey. Putin. Assange. Etc. As for your final question, I hope you are kidding...

...because otherwise I don't know what to say to you. The members of this board are politically engaged, to say the least. People who wanted to essentially sabotage the Party and candidate by voting 3rd party were shown the door.

Hillary got 3 million more votes than Red Don. Her message got across to the majority of American voters, as I am sure you will agree. Whatever flaws there were in the campaign, she won the vote.

Every time I look at "what happened" to the outcome, I keep bumping up against the FACT that we got fucked. We fought back as best we could, and we still got fucked. Trump is beyond being a "useful idiot" for Putin, he is a fucking Trojan Horse. The country got invaded, and Hillary and the rest of the Dems were the first casualties in the war. DU itself only survives because whoever took the site down was possibly only toying with us.

We were walking down the street on a sunny day going about our business when we were attacked. We got fucked.

THAT was "your and my role in getting here."

Like all survivors of assault, people here have good days and bad days, and some folks have been damn near suicidal. But we are survivors and we are hauling each other up as best we can, because of the magnitude of the work that must be done. What we don't need is any more of the blame that has been leveled at us as survivors, or the self-blame that comes with the territory. All evidence considered, more of it each day, indicates that the FACT that we got fucked over was not our fault.

[mercuryblues]

47. Hekate

I don't think I could love you more right now. Al the BS about how bad a campaigner Hillary was and how the Democratic Party didn't get their message across should be laid to rest. You said what I have been saying with a lot less "fucks" in your post than I would have

[Hekate]

49. Thank you so much. I've had it up to here with survivor's guilt ...

Not to mention the finger pointing about how the assault was all our own fault. The psychological effects have been all too reminiscent, right? Identifying what happened is important, and that includes naming the perps in public.

Admitting we were assaulted and naming the perps is not claiming a false victimhood and it is not wallowing in weakness. It is telling Truth to terrifying Power and it is reclaiming our strength.

[SticksnStones]

48. A push against electing more of the same

I remember it clearly. A call for leadship from people with less government experience.

A battlecry of duty to up end the status quo.

I'd kill for some status quo right about now...

[liquid diamond]

50. Her secret speeches to Goldman Sachs

Just in case:

[Cha]

9. Yeah, many of us saw this coming.. that's why we knew how

Important it was for Hillary to Win.

Kill everyone off so they can rule the world with their military.. hope they rebel on the MFs.

[Kingofalldems]

12. But there will be military parades galore!

And Trump will even don a uniform.

It'll be great!

[jmowreader]

39. And he has the tailor picked out!

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mZlRzptRQgc/UZ4VJCixBsI/AAAAAAAAErY/r1ipOBniy2w/s1600/North+Korea+officers+decorated+heavily+in+medals.jpg

[Kingofalldems]

40. Touche'!

[smirkymonkey]

13. How much worse can it get?

Every day is a new low. I don't know how these people live with themselves. I really don't.

[blue sky at night]

14. when do the camps get constructed with the ovens?

I guess it would be quicker than starving to death....either way they will be dead. EOM.

[mvd]

15. Well, that takes care of the food vs medicine choice

Because of Trump, they won't have either.

Do we have any chance of stopping this disaster of budget?

[Marthe48]

16. so the 1% can start hunger games

[bdamomma]

18. They are ripping out

any goodness this country had, they are also cutting out free school lunches, kids should be off limits!!!!!

Damn we all need to rally to take care of each other, because these are damn cold hearted people don't care at all.

[Ilsa]

20. The gop is showing the world who they are.

No more pretending to be compassionate conservatives. We just need for everyone to pay attention.

[MFM008]

35. they will pay attention when

they cant feed their screaming kids.

[Stonepounder]

21. I have a bunch of postcards to send.

We went to a indivisible meeting and ended up with 60 postcards that we are supposed to send to our elected morons. I've decided that there is no point in discussing issues, beacuse they don't give a damn what we think. Instead, I will just write:

Matthew 25:40 - King James Version (KJV)

40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
- Jesus

Do you really want a Christian nation?

[Volaris]

23. They know damnwell don't.

[tclambert]

22. If we starve the poor to death, at least they won't be a burden on the billionaires any more.

Just warms your heart, doesn't it?

[bucolic_frolic]

24. What are they trying to do?

Jump start cannibalism?

[procon]

25. What do they think is going to happen to all these people?

Yeah, I understand they don't care, but hopeless and desperate people are driven to do desperate things. Whatever assistance they were getting is immediately pumped back into their local communities, supporting all kinds of jobs, services and businesses; what happens to all those folks?

The Republicans want to push all the responsibilty down to the states, but by giving them a fraction of the money need to support those who need assistance it will be impossible. Most states pass those stupid balances budget laws, and no politician will put their name on a bill to raise taxes to pick up the slack.

As poverty increases, neighborhood blight reduces home values, more jobs at lost, tax revenues fall... if this sounds familiar, we've gone down this Depression road before. Obama save us from a repeat, but Trump and his clowns don't have the chops to stop a 3rd wave.

[MFM008]

36. yes

see : French Revolution.

[L. Coyote]

26. They seem to be directly attacking the peoiple who voted against them.

They call it politics as warfare. If people die, hey, that what happens in wars.

[lunasun]

30. yes cant help but notice

[Marcuse]

28. Satire is reality.

&sns=em

[dchill]

31. WWJD?

[FailureToCommunicate]

32. What Would Jared Do?

[dchill]

33. What's the price of tea... in China?

$400 billion?

[FailureToCommunicate]

38. Matthew 25:34-40

(I agreed with your first question. Just tried to be funny)

[dchill]

45. "take your inheritance..."

(NIV version)

[beachbum bob]

34. Following the hertigage foundation plan ...The wet dream of

Conservatives

[LisaL]

37. What's gonna happen when you have a Republican president, congress and senate?

Exactly this.

[C_U_L8R]

53. Yup... the very worst that could happen

[Betty]

41. how is this going to balance the budget?

it's such a sliver of the total...the only reason for it is unabashed cruelty.

[FiveGoodMen]

54. Absolutely right!

Putting the Pentagon on a diet is the only way to address the budget.

[Initech]

42. So when do we break out the pitchforks and torches?

[PatrickforO]

43. Ah but this will free them from 'dependency!' Heck, when they are kicked

off the safety net, they will be FREE! That's what this brave new neo-liberal America is all about, eh? The 'freedom' to pull yourself up by the bootstraps or starve.

We don't need no stinkin' safety nets in Trump world!

[58Sunliner]

44. This puts everyone at risk. These sick bastards think they will sit it out behind security gates and

armed forces, but they are not invulnerable. I think death threats will be forthcoming. What will people have to lose? This is another shock and awe campaign by Bacon, er, Boozer, I mean Bannon. The idea is to demoralize us, so that we feel overwhelmed and apathetic.

[calimary]

46. Reminds me of when fucking reagan tried to convince America that ketchup was a vegetable.

Therefore it could be counted as such as far as school lunches were concerned.

Nickeling-'n'-diming needy kids so those poor, put-upon, aggrieved rich folks could get bigger tax breaks.

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph - we go through this shit EVERY TIME some CON gets into the White House. And let's not forget this is the SECOND consecutive CON to get into the White House through cheating, trickery, and deceit. Don't forget - bush/cheney stole their way in, too.

[Vinca]

51. Hey . . . someone has to pay for the tax cuts for the wealthy.

[RKP5637]

52. Trump's plan is to kill off millions by lack of food and health care. It's 1000% obvious what

the plan is!