TYT: Politician Pushes For Literal Hunger Games

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“Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) explained on Tuesday that a new policy that could cut off food stamps for thousands of people in his state would be “ennobling” for poor people.

The Indiana Family and Social Services Administration announced last month that beginning in 2015, it would no longer request a waiver to the federal work requirement for certain people who use the SNAP program. Up to 65,000 single Hoosiers could lose food stamp benefits unless they are working 20 hours a week or attending job training.

Speaking to Fox News on Tuesday, Pence argued that 50,000 people had joined the Indiana workforce since 2008 so it was time to return to a “core principle” of welfare reform."* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

[SamKnause]

1. Single people without children

do not require food.

You learn something new everyday.

As a single person, with no living children, I can attest to the fact that I need food to survive.

[vkkv]

2. Friends don't let friends vote Republican.

They will destroy this country.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

3. Yet another example of someone who has had it easy wondering why poor people can't make it too.

[Jack Rabbit]

4. Republican "ennoblizes" the poor for their own good

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