On Strike? Republicans Don’t Want Your Family to Eat

[Donnachaidh]

http://blog.aflcio.org/2011/03/24/on-strike-republicans-dont-want-your-family-to-eat/

How low can Republicans go in their attacks on working families and their unions?

Think Progress reports today that “a group of House Republicans is launching a new stealth attack against union workers” by prohibiting the family of a worker on strike from receiving food stamps.

The stealth provision is buried in H.R. 1135, a bill based 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.”

Republican Reps. Jim Jordan (Ohio), Tim Scott (S.C.), Scott Garrett (N.J.), Dan Burton (Ind.), and Louie Gohmert (Texas) introduced the bill, which also includes a provision that would exempt households from losing eligibility, “if the household was eligible immediately prior to such strike, however, such family unit shall not receive an increased allotment as the result of a decrease in the income of the striking member or members of the household.”

More at the link --

[Deep13]

1. Regular people are hands for working and mouths for consuming...

...and that's all. They don't need rights to do that.

[kestrel91316]

4. They are mainly wallets for picking.

[Deep13]

5. Wallets imply unused money.

The rich want disposable income to be their exclusive perogative.

[HughBeaumont]

2. You know what this is called, Democrats? It's called AMMO.

USE it.

Otherwise, this country's going to be FILLED with Hosni Walker Kasich Scott Christies.

[Deep13]

3. Each of of those fascist assholes thinks he's going to be president. nt

[HughBeaumont]

6. Let 'em run. BY ALL MEANS!!

Largest landslide in history. There ain't NO paintin' that bunch as moderates. Fascists don't get elected president unless their name is Bush.