I wonder if the "red hats" realize that millions of people are on the verge of losing SNAP benefits.

[Miles Archer]

UPDATE: The budget resolution passed by the House on Thursday will push millions of already struggling people off food stamps, leaving the neediest Americans—children and the elderly among them—without food.

The $4.1-trillion budget will take over $150 billion away from several poverty programs, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which helps low-income people keep food on the table, by giving them small amounts of supplemental money to spend on groceries—anywhere from $100 a month to $700 a month for a family of five, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

This budget isn't the newest problem SNAP has had to face. The number of people on SNAP ebbs and flows with the economy, but only 75 percent of people who are eligible for SNAP actually participate in the program, the website Snap to Health says. And it's because applying can get really complicated.

http://www.newsweek.com/under-trumps-new-budget-if-you-dont-work-you-dont-eat-republicans-are-kicking-679749

[MFM008]

1. wonderful.

i get 129 dollars for the entire month.
some get even less according to income.
Why cant that POS
choke to death on his next pork chop.

[JI7]

2. They see it as a good thing

And that it means stop giving free stuff to minorities.

They will be surprised when it hits whites including themselves but I'm sure they will continue blaming minorities for it.

[Iggo]

3. Of course they do. And they're ecstatic. (n/t)

[Skittles]

14. I am betting a good portion of them voted for Trump

idiots

[LonePirate]

4. The red hats only care about pissing off liberals. If that happens, they will support it.

It doesn't matter to them how many of their own will be hurt by the loss of these benefits. It's a proverbial game of cutting off their nose to spite their face.

[Iggo]

6. They hate people who care about other people. It really really bothers them.

Half of them think we do it because we're weak, and the other half think we do it to make them feel guilty.

Seriously. I know these people. They sign my paychecks. They think poor people are poor because they want to be poor. They think the homeless are homeless because they want to be homeless. And they think that the people who give a shit are stupid.

[WhiteTara]

11. I live in a state with one of the highest poverty rates

so this should be interesting to see if a single person who voted for all these monsters wakes up.

[Squinch]

5. Millions of kids already lost their health coverage.

[Jake Stern]

7. Even if they're impacted by it they'll still blame minorities

I recall overhearing my uncle, a committed Tea Partier and now a first class passenger on the Trump Train, saying SNAP needs to be eliminated because that's the only way "those people" can be "weaned off the taxpayer teat".

[Wellstone ruled]

8. Just heard a similiar

statement out of one of my Brothers mouth two hours ago. And he was trashing the Somali Community with his garbage. Again,a first classer on the Stupid Train.

[Orrex]

9. The idiot racist fuckheads I've talked to about it...

are ok with it. This is how you know that they're a cult: they are impervious to reason; they are hostile to fact; and they tolerate direct personal harm inflicted upon them by Trump.

"It'll be tough," said one on my community's FB page, "but he's doing what's best for the country."


Every single person who voted for him is an idiot racist fuckhead.

[HipChick]

10. Love the term "Red Hats"..

[Hortensis]

12. There could be plusses to this. The consequences would blast apart the huge lies

the right has built their anti-government ideology on.

It would eventually lead to necessary wage hikes as the corporate welfare that allows business to pay too little to live on dries up. This is actually huge, and potentially the biggest reason this might not happen or just to a limited degree.

It would take away, or strongly weaken, a huge right-wing argument -- that food stamps keep people from wanting to work. They'd get what they've been fighting for for decades. And the consequences.

It would take away, or strongly weaken, another major right-wing argument -- that private charity is far more effective than government.

Churches and charitable conservative groups, comfortable now with their limited assistance with food drives and so on, would be hit with far higher demand than they could meet. Family and friends would be forced to assist people not able to feed themselves and their children in spite of working full time (and food's getting very expensive). Schools would be sending notices home to parents asking for help for hungry children. Rising rates of health problems in children would be discussed in the media. Local governments across the nation would be forced to address exploding problems of hunger and malnutrition in America's children including reallocating taxes.

Increasing numbers of Americans across most of the spectrum would be increasingly angry that this could be happening in America. Angry at the Republican Party.

[kimbutgar]

13. I work as a substitute teacher and had a 3 day assisgnment for a third grade class

One boy was chubby but sweet. At the end of the day he got upset over something another kid said and melted down. I tried to comfort him and he said he hated his life. For an 8 year old it made me so sad. The social worker ended up coming out and told me he was living in a homeless shelter with his mom and never knew if he would eat that night. The next day I saw him gouge himself on food. The poor child was eating when he could because he might not have dinner at night. This child and his Mother probably has received snap benefits and now that bastard is going to make it harder for him to eat. This was a white child with blonde hair and blue eyes.