Buried Provision In House GOP Bill Would Cut Off Food Stamps To Entire Families

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Buried Provision In House GOP Bill Would Cut Off Food Stamps To Entire Families If One Member Strikes
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/03/23/buried-provision-food-stamps/

All around the country, right-wing legislators are asking middle class Americans to pay for budget deficits caused mainly by a recession caused by Wall Street; they are attacking workers’ collective bargaining rights, which has provoked a huge Main Street Movement to fight back.

Now, a group of House Republicans is launching a new stealth attack against union workers. GOP Reps. Jim Jordan (OH), Tim Scott (SC), Scott Garrett (NJ), Dan Burton (IN), and Louie Gohmert (TX) have introduced H.R. 1135, which states that it is designed to “provide information on total spending on means-tested welfare programs, to provide additional work requirements, and to provide an overall spending limit on means-tested welfare programs.”

Much of the bill is based upon verifying that those who receive food stamps benefits are meeting the federal requirements for doing so. However, one section buried deep within the bill adds a startling new requirement. The bill, if passed, would actually cut off all food stamp benefits to any family where one adult member is engaging in a strike against an employer:

[blogslut]

Ahem

FUUUUUCK THEEEESE PEEEEEOPLE!

[abelenkpe]

9. +1 nt.

[jillan]

10. What she said! Altho I am beginning to wonder if they are people. I'm beginning to think they are

pond scum. Corporate pond scum that is.

[nashville_brook]

30. suggested edit: fuck these people up.

:evilgrin:

[craigmatic]

1. So they want working people to be slaves to the man and starve? Republicans are assholes.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

2. Your level of surprise surprises me.

These wacknuts, even knowing that the rest of the country is NOT with them on this issue, are going to keep doing what they are doing until someone stops them. And there isn't anyone in this country with enough backbone...
Duckie

[Tippy]

13. Self de-leat...wrong spot

[underpants]

3. They can't be more clear of their contempt of working people

1 in 10 are on food assistance programs.

This is more than disturbing.

[msongs]

4. The Democratic Party INC seems to have vanished from Earth, especially in Congress/White House

and as we know, silence = consent. The golden opportunities to be on the side of regular working, middle class and poor Americans are parading by.

[Sonoman]

5. What is their goal? A Workers' rebellion?

Are they clueless or just plain hateful assholes or both?

Sonoman

[louis-t]

6. Amazing isn't it? Repugs HATE welfare, foodstamps, any

social safety nets, yet their policies keep pushing more people into those programs. Genocide.

[femrap]

7. That Jim Jordan from OH

is a real selfish asshole....hungry people don't have too much to lose. How does he call himself a Christian? :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[Webster Green]

8. Mutherfuckers better start making the fences higher at their gated mansions.

Keep pushing mutherfuckers. There are way more of us than of you.

[revolutionnow45]

15. + 1,000,0000,000

nt

[PDJane]

11. This is just plain repulsive.

What a disgusting, immoral and cruel act. How this lot get into congress in the first place is a poor reflection on the electorate.

[no_hypocrisy]

12. Ugh! Scott Garrett represents my district . . . .

[revolutionnow45]

14. So you are poor enough to get food stamps....but you make too much money?

Just trying to get these bastards logic straight.

[Skip_In_Boulder]

16. Did anyone really think they were going to give up real easy like.

This is the endgame for these corporatist that has been decades in the making. It's going to take more than a few protest to prevail.

[underpants]

19. No they are at full throttle

They are working outside of reality. Their own reality that they dictate by and through Fox News (the rest of the media follows) and talk radio.

[Solly Mack]

17. K&R

[demmiblue]

18. K&R

:kick:

[NYC_SKP]

20. Recommended. nt

[Scuba]

21. Extortion. Defy us and we'll starve your children. They have no shame. n/t

[mod mom]

22. Republicans are heartless thugs hell bent on destroying this country!

[City Lights]

23. How can they claim to love America when they clearly hate Americans?

Fuck them! Up, down, and sideways! I despise them with every fiber of my being!

[bluethruandthru]

24. Wow - this needs to get some attention! n/t

[Blue Owl]

25. Where can I make a donation to the Koch Bros.?

I'd like to send all my grocery money to these wonderful corporate stewards of democracy.

:sarcasm:

[Mnemosyne]

26. K&R for more visibility and disgust. n/t

[Rex]

27. This is all out warfare, they are trying to subvert America into

a work camp. All I can say is that it must suck to live a life so narrow and evil as the GOPukers live.

[bobbolink]

28. And there is going to be an organized protest of this?

Only if it affects the middleclass workers, I'm guessing....

Because there sure haven't been protests of the food stamp cuts so far.......

[warren pease]

29. Never fear; the noble senate democrats will protect "the small people"...

And if they don't, there's always the mighty veto pen in the Offal Office. That should do the trick.

:sarcasm:


wp

[louslobbs]

31. They're putting everything into overdrive since Walker got caught talking to the fake Koch Bro

These are the ugliest, most vile, sneakiest, pathetic excuses for being human I have ever encountered. Republicons and their operatives will not stop this madness, We the People will have to stop them and the sooner the better. They haven't hit the brakes once, but rather floored the accelerator in their goals to break the Unions, Schools, and anything that does not make them money or keep them in power. The Koch Klan needs to be stopped as well, do some research about the Koch background and you'll find Nazi/Hitler/Stalin/Bircher blood in the entire Koch lineage.
Lou