Trump is expected to veto farm bill unless it imposes tough work requirements

[turbinetree]

Source: Think Progress

Forty-three million Americans depend on SNAP for food assistance. Now, the president wants to make things more difficult for them.

REBEKAH ENTRALGO MAY 9, 2018, 12:43 PM

President Donald Trump is expected to tell lawmakers Wednesday that he intends to veto the farm bill unless it includes tighter work requirements for individuals receiving food stamps, two people familiar with the deliberations told the Wall Street Journal.

Work requirements for food stamps, known officially as the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP), are the most controversial portion of the farm bill, which provides funding for SNAP and must be re-authorized by the fall.

President Trump has embraced the arguments of his party, saying on the campaign trail, “The person who is not working at all and has no intention of working at all is making more money and doing better than the person that’s working his and her ass off.”

Last October, Trump also claimed that “people are taking advantage of the system and other people aren’t receiving what they need to live.”

Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/trump-wont-sign-farm-bill-without-work-requirements-3fea66596030/

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What a fucking completely dick.......................and he goes down to Florida and does what kind of work, fucking golf......................



November 2018 cannot get fast enough

[JI7]

1. I wish this worthless piece of shit would have a massive heart attack on tv

So the world can celebrate

[Solly Mack]

4. (Would be) Most watched video evah on Youtube.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

30. No put it on pay-per-view

Then distribute the money to all of the Americans he screwed with his tax giveaway to the 1%.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Do you think republicans will override this veto?

[salin]

11. No. They are more afraid of his base than they are concerned for constituents.

[TeamPooka]

16. His base collects these benefits!

[Shipwack]

19. Well, yeah, but...

-They- deserve and need it. It’s those -other- lazy people that are cheating the system.

Then when their sister who can’t get a full time job because she has a special needs child loses her benefits....

They’ll blame a Democrat.

[Chickensoup]

3. So why don't you stop playing golf and do some work for a change .

[Eliot Rosewater]

5. They want to kill poor people and I dont know if we can stop them

[dameatball]

6. Is there a "Secretary of Real Work" in the cabinet that can explain to him what it is??

[paleotn]

7. Apparently,

Dumpster has no idea how much SNAP provides. No one and I mean NO ONE is doing "well" on SNAP. For a family, SNAP is barely a step above starvation.

[appalachiablue]

33. Aren't they changing SNAP 'food' to a drop off box at your door, brand X

crackers and peanut butter, some little packages of processed junk and maybe a juice box or two?

Thought I heard this a while ago.

[world wide wally]

8. "Tough work" is another thing Spanky has never experienced.

[pwb]

9. Own an expensive assault weapon ? No food stamps!

How about that requirement trump?

[trixie2]

12. I like it!

[elocs]

10. I am part of the 12% of senior citizens who receive food stamps, 44% are children

and another 11% are the non-elderly with disabilities. So that's 67% or 2/3 of those who receive Snap benefits. For able-bodied adults there are strict requirements about looking for work and a time limit on benefits, especially if they are single.
I am retired and single and I am under the 100% Federal Poverty Level and I receive a grand total of $32/month in Snap benefits or about a dollar a day, down from $39/month in December because in January I receive a $15/month SS cost of living increase to they had to cut my Snap benefits. Evidently food does not count in getting a COLA.
If not for food pantries and availing myself of any way I can find to get food I would be in tough shape if I depended upon Snap benefits to ever remotely supplement what I need to eat.

[turbinetree]

14. For a country that is suppose to be the richest......................which we are...................

I and 32 million of us are on social security, because we made this country rich and we made these corporations rich, and we made these individual investors rich.......................and now as I speak Paul "ayn rand" Ryan and the sexual predator are trying to cut 800 billion from social security................................what the hell did I or you do to them........................beside live.................

[yallerdawg]

15. 2017 average.

On average, SNAP households received about $254 a month in fiscal year 2017. The average SNAP benefit per person was about $126 per month, which works out to about $1.40 per person per meal.

https://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/a-quick-guide-to-snap-eligibility-and-benefits

They want to take this away because it "creates a dependency."

Just sick.

[ladym55]

13. Sadly this will be just FINE with his base

They see SNAP benefits going to THOSE people, you know, the "undeserving." THOSE people are lazy, shiftless and don't deserve help. So much hatred and ignorance.

I see it all too often, and common sense, logic, and compassion don't change minds.

[TeamPooka]

17. We need tighter work requirements for this President

[beachbum bob]

18. make more friends? Trump really is clueless to what a veto does to the farm bill at this juncture...

He is going more discontent with the rural voters with his tariffs and trade wars brewing

[BlueDog22]

20. Red States

On the bright side: This would hurt red states more. This would throw Tennessee and West Virginia more, and hopefully help the Democrats there.

I feel some way about myself for thinking that way...

[Corgigal]

21. Don't think this asshole believes he's

gonna run for re-election, it's hitting some of his own voters now. This policy shift can be used against him in certain areas and it will ring true, because it is.

[greymattermom]

22. So, no federal support for farmers?

and the trade war with China will cause major disruptions, especially in sorghum and hog regions. That and the drought will be disastrous for....Kansas....Iowa...west Texas...Oklahoma.

[Bengus81]

36. Trump already said he would help out the farmers hit hard by his IDIOT trade policies....

SNAP people?? Nah,lazy no counts.................

[catrose]

23. Just wondering how you can make people work

I've been looking for a job since last August. Does it count if you're looking but not getting hired? Is the government going to supply makework for people who don't have jobs? How disabled do you have to be before you're released from the obligation? How old? Being poor IS a lot of work. He should try it some time.

Oh, and when my son was on food stamps when he was between jobs, he got $17/month. How much work do you have to do to get your $17? I hope it's not the 20 hours/week I've heard floating around, because that works out to around 20 cents an hour.

This guy. Seriously.

[handmade34]

24. "Being poor is a lot of work"

you got that right!!... everybody should have the pleasure of experiencing it

and I wonder if they will take into consideration the additional cost of working a low wage job--

[catrose]

29. I don't imagine they'll take anything into consideration

we'll get another tossed salad, like all their half-BAKED programs.

[EarthFirst]

25. Not a single one of these fascists have worked a hard day in their lives or known a hardship...

They don’t have a fucking clue.

[RandySF]

26. So he can eat more?

I had a cousin who needed who stamps for a brief time. She was a stay-at-home mom when her asshole husband went to jail for touching a kid. She needed a little help while she looked for work. No one is looking for handout, just enough to avoid letting their kids starve.

[orangecrush]

27. Disrupt and destabilize

Throwing people off SNAP on a large scale will lead to unrest and more crime.

Just what Putin ordered.

[NCjack]

28. When #45 is convicted of racketeering and his property is seized and sold, I hope

I am his straw boss on a hot, North Carolina tobacco farm.

[Freethinker65]

31. Let him veto it.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

32. Blood on the Scarecrow, blood on the plow . . .

Who remembers Reaganomics ? In the mid-1980s, Reagan initiated the worst farm crisis since the Great Depression, when he passed the most punitive, destructive financial policies that suppressed prices and ignored the increase in feed and energy costs. This led to foreclosures on a massive scale. Between 1985 and 1986, 80,000 to 90,000 small and mid-sized farms closed.

Suicides of farmers reached an all-time high for rural regions most effected. Some of these farms had been started three generations back, and now families found they could not go on. In the upper mid-western states of Wisconsin, North and South Dakota, Minnesota and Montana, more than 900 male farmers committed suicides in the 80s, more than doubling the national average at the time.

Think about that for just a moment.

Willie Nelson (who picked cotton as a young boy) and John Mellencamp and Bob Dylan and Neil Young did. The first Farm Aid concert held in 1985, in Illinois raised $9 million. And they're still going on today.

Farmers didn't want a hand-out they only wanted a fair field. Even today, small farms are still hurting while BigAgra is making money hand over fist. And Monsanto is screwing everyone.

And now trump is going to put the screws to farmers again.

We have GOT to get these bastards out of office. PLEASE remember to vote in November, folks.

[appalachiablue]

34. Thanks for the reminder, I recall some & Farm Aid concerts. Awful time

for the farmers and people in those states..all for Big Ag and more profits.

[Bengus81]

35. Part of the "farm" bill which has paid them for DECADES for not working certain sections of land...

In fact in a story many years back they were paying farmers in western Kansas many times MORE than the going price of corn IF they would not plant any.

But SNAP adults and children better tow the line and get your second or third job if Trump deems it so.