USDA Chief to People on Food Stamps: Get a Job

[workinclasszero]

USDA Chief to People on Food Stamps: Get a Job
Sonny Purdue said the next farm bill should “support work as the pathway to self-sufficiency.”
TOM PHILPOTTJAN. 24, 2018 7:12 PM

According to a recent US Department of Agriculture report, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (formerly called food stamps) “increasingly serves the working poor.” Indeed, among working-age SNAP recipients, 57 percent either work or are seeking employment, and 22 percent are disabled.

Even so, USDA chief Sonny Perdue has a message for people who rely on the program: Get a job.

A significant portion of House Republicans—the so-called Freedom Caucus—will only vote for a farm bill that includes massive SNAP cuts. But most House Dems will only vote yes if the bill doesn’t cut SNAP. As a result, he says passage of a farm bill in 2018 “will be difficult if impossible.”

But the leverage in this case is with the SNAP-supporting Democrats—because if no farm bill passes in 2018, the program’s funding will automatically renew at current levels, Hoefner says.

https://www.motherjones.com/food/2018/01/usda-chief-to-people-on-food-stamps-get-a-job/

[beachbum bob]

1. lol, many people already have jobs that don't pay them enough to exceed the

qualifying lower limit and collect food stamps. Another fucking ignorant republican who thinks its nothing but black welfare queens....gaming the system

[workinclasszero]

7. I've read that Walmart gives new employees instructions on how to get SNAP

so they can keep their slave wages low.

[Aristus]

2. Children, the elderly, and the disabled?

Shithead...

[atreides1]

3. And active duty military!!!

Perdue is an idiot and a shithead!!!

[Aristus]

5. That's right, I forgot.

Can't pay service members a decent wage when there are so many billions to give to corrupt, incompetent contractors.

[workinclasszero]

8. And not a word about the government paying farmers to grow nothing

I guess welfare for republican voting farmers is okay.

[CurtEastPoint]

4. As a Georgia, I TRULY apologize for this ignorant fucker who was our goddamn governor.

[nolabels]

6. By definition, wanting bad intent and being desirous of hurting people is a fetish

So in actuality, I would say Sonny Perdue needs to find real and meaningful employment

[Phoenix61]

9. I am left with nothing to say but

WTF is wrong with him?!? He apparently has no idea who actually receives food stamps. They can give billion dollar tax cuts to the Koch brothers and strive to make people go hungry. November 2018 can't get here soon enough.

[workinclasszero]

13. "They can give billion dollar tax cuts to the Koch brothers and strive to make people go hungry."

****ing amazing isn't it?

Trillions in welfare for the filthy rich but FU sick old folks and poor children, get a high paying job somewhere or STARVE!

[SWBTATTReg]

10. Ignorant as usual...

I'd like him to be in the shoes of any of these who receive the food stamps, both in the urban cities as well as a rural county, so he'll maybe have a better understanding of the needs of these unfortunate folks. Also, a higher minimum wage would probably help a lot of these folks too, and they would be off the government dole, and on their own, which is probably what they want, instead of having to deal w/ government paperwork and crap.

You all know how some government entities and their business buddies seem to constantly fight higher minimum wage laws (in Missouri, they actually forced the city of St. Louis and KCMO to rescind their higher minimum wage laws by passing a statewide law banning cities from enacting higher minimum wage laws).

So much for Christian charity, eh?

What a shame...I for one, if some of my tax dollars are going to feed a family and kids who can't afford such a basic need as food on the table (and the parent(s) are working, unfortunately at a min. wage), definitely want to help them. Period. I would even bag up some of my groceries and take over to them.

I hope this guy gets an earful and more.

[beachbum bob]

11. makes the "not voting for the lesser of 2 evils" pretty apparent why it was so criminally wrong

[delisen]

12. Perdue Political Family Trumpists-Sonny & Sen David Perdue

Sonny was two-term governor of Georgia and David is US Senator from GA (first cousins).

David has been an early and avid supporter and surrogate for Trump. Sonny a quieter supporter

plantation politics?

Farm Bill-mostly corporate agriculture welfare. Food stamp program was saved in the 90's when Newt Gingrich wanted to end it----saved by corporate agriculture and brand name food manufacturers because they are the beneficiaries of government spending on the taxpayer subsidized food.

After the phony tax reform bill drastically lowered taxes for the super wealthy- the middle class will be paying more for the subsidies.

The reason Democrats can't point this out is because we would lose congressional seats since corporate agriculture is so powerful. what we get instead is a phony debate, with Republicans denouncing "lazy" food stamp recipients and Democrats defending the food needy.

We never get a real debate on the destructive economics of the Agricultural industry.

It is almost as though we need a union for households in order to get real information into the public square.

Nader was a spoiler but the concept of a consumer's union was a good one-it just never got far enough.

[jodymarie aimee]

14. A single senior or disabled adult

gets $15 a MONTH in Walker's Wisconsin. He cut them 9x.....pennies a day....folks aren't even applying anymore.....fucking pigs the Rs are.

[ProfessorGAC]

15. Per This Article From Last May. . .

. . .70% of households with at least one kid, and nobody disabled or elderly have at least one outside the home income.

But i'm sure Perdue was only talking to the other 30%.


[link:https://www.usnews.com/opinion/economic-intelligence/articles/2017-05-12/dont-let-republicans-convince-you-that-snap-recipients-dont-work|

[Dawson Leery]

16. DL to Farmers: grow something or don't get paid.

It is time to kill the farm bill.

[mvd]

17. Besides being off due to the numbers..

stupid Perdue fails to realize that a hungry person won't be in as good a shape to look for work. Hunger is the main issue. The Repuke Party has an extremely serious problem with morals and ethics.

[bluecollar2]

18. I remember When I was in the Navy

We were told not to be in uniform if you were using food stamps.

I didn't as I was single and didn't need them but several families I knew couldn't get on base housing. Off base housing and other expenses forced some families to apply for food stamps.

Big stink about bringing the service I to disrepute etc...

[Archae]

19. "Farm Bill," translation: "Keep the corn subsidies..."

I figured it out once, in my lifetime, I'll get less from SSI and my $85 a month in food stamps, than the corn growers get in subsidies in just a MONTH.

[Orsino]

20. Tell your buddies to stop redistributing wealth away from us, the job creators.

We can make the jobs that they won't.