donnie two scoops' Let Them Eat Cake Moment Couldn't Get More Stupid

[niyad]

Trump’s “Let Them Eat Cake” Moment Couldn’t Get More Stupid
He proposes to cut funding for food stamps in the most embarassing way.

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In yet another eye-popping move, this week President Donald Trump called for sharply cutting and bizarrely restructuring the nation’s flagship program for providing food aid to to poor people. His 2019 budget proposal takes aim at the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps. SNAP helps keep one in four US children and millions of disabled people adequately fed. The administration’s proposal would slash the SNAP budget by $213.5 billion between 2019 and 2028—a nearly 30 percent cut. Republican stalwarts like House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) have been pining for such such cuts for years. What makes the Trump budget document so jarring is how it proposes to deliver those savings. It would dole out food boxes, through what White House Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney called a “Blue Apron-type program.”

Anyone who has used a meal-kit service like Blue Apron might envision a chilled box featuring fresh meat and vegetables ready to be cooked into a sumptuous meal. The White House budget described something quite a bit more austere:
Under the proposal, households receiving $90 or more per month in SNAP benefits will receive a portion of their benefits in the form of a USDA Foods package, which would include items such as shelf-stable milk, ready to eat cereals, pasta, peanut butter, beans and canned fruit, vegetables, and meat, poultry or fish. In other words, a box brimming with a bunch of cans and jars.

One might think an idea so confidently proposed might have the weight of a think-tank white paper, a university study, or a US Department Agriculture pilot program behind it. Not this one, reports Politico’s Helena Bottemiller Evich. “The idea that USDA would provide millions of low-income people packages of food on a national scale has not been floated by conservative think tanks, promoted by industry, or sought by previous administrations,” she reports. A USDA spokesman told her that the idea emerged from the mind of USDA chief Sonny Perdue, a former Georgia governor and agri-businessman with no experience in hunger or poverty policy.

Not surprisingly, anti-hunger advocates went ballistic. In a press statement, Lisa Davis, senior vice president of the anti-hunger group Share Our Strength, declared it a “disturbing and harmful agenda.” Robert Greenstein, president of the think tank Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, warned that “more homelessness and hunger would inevitably follow” from SNAP cuts. Annie Lowrey, who covers economic policy for The Atlantic, delivered a blistering inventory of the “food box” plan’s faults on Twitter. Here’s how it started:

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https://www.motherjones.com/food/2018/02/trump-budget-food-stamps-cake-blue-apron-meal-kit/

[Eyeball_Kid]

1. The original Neoconservative, Leo Strauss...

... wrote that "depopulating" the globe is one of the few ways to conserve natural resources for long term human consumption. It's no surprise that his ideological progeny are advocating for policies that will "depopulate" the US. Eliminating medical care and nutritional quality for the less fortunate is consistent with Leo Strauss' dark vision of governance. In other words, GOPers are comfortable with killing off millions of US citizens by promoting policies such as what's described above.

[niyad]

2. sadly, you are absolutely correct.

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3. Here's a "d" 4U. n/t

[niyad]

4. oops. THANKS!!

[rzemanfl]

5. You're welcome. n/t