(Check this out!) Cost to the average taxpaper per year

[Playinghardball]

[Heather MC]

1. "BUT but Food stamp recipients Game the system"

Says as all my Republican friends

SMH

[Brigid]

3. Just tell them . . .

"And corporations don't game the system?"

[Heather MC]

6. Then they say, but I KNOW SOMEONE WHO.......

that's usually the point I take a sip of my drink and pretend I see someone I know across the room
because what's the point???

[Brigid]

9. Well, you know what Ron White said:

"You can't fix stupid."

[Heather MC]

11. Bingo!

I don't get paid enough to try

[bluestate10]

12. Many Food Stamp recipients either don't vote or vote against their

own best interests (vote for republicans). If that changed, we, Democrats could really put in place the right priorities where no one goes hungry.

[Brigid]

2. This needs to be broadcast far and wide.

Thank you, Playinghardball.

[freshwest]

4. Ah, but those are the 'job creators' on the right. Too bad they don't create them or pay so poorly

that food stamps and other subsidies are necessary to keep those on the left from starving.

Many programs are band aids on an issue Americans refuse to face and that is, each other. There's always been a segment of the population that have benefited off impoverishing others.

It ain't the evil old government the rich blame causing this foolishness. The people created these programs have done so to snag dollars from the oligarchs who while at times provide us* with good things, also enrich themselves.

If Americans would stop hating on each other, it wouldn't be necessary to tap dance around these guys who have taken us down this road.

Too many of us* have thought we were too good to land up in the same boat as those who need the assistance. So they vote for the oligarchs.

[Brigid]

8. And there is also what I call the "Steinbeck Syndrome":

Too many Americans see themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

[christx30]

10. Yep. They are wonderful job creators.

They take those much deserved ( ) tax breaks and create jobs. They create jobs in Honduras, the Philippines, and India. Thanks to the tax breaks made affordable by cutting food stamps, a family in Mexico can have a better life.

[WillyT]

5. K & R !!!

[cantbeserious]

7. The Oligarchs, Billionaires And Millionaires Own And Control The Politicians That Own And Control Us

eom

[libdem4life]

13. All parents have childcare decisions to make...childcare can cost more than working at minimum wage

especially for "just a mom" and doubly for "just a single mom".

Forget being a Christian or Civilized Nation...we're not even equivalent to the Godless Socialist or Banana Republic nations that are scorned ... in the care of our young, elderly, ill and poor.

Instead, we sanctimoniously brandish our shiny, new weapons as we lecture/police the rest of the world. Because, that's the trade-off.

For shame.

[HereSince1628]

14. Those aren't corporate subsidies they are gifts from God to his elect.

Handouts to the poor are attempts to upset the divine order of Earthly wealth concentration.

It's the Devil's work.

[magical thyme]

15. well how can we afford to help the poor when the rich are already taking so much?!?

The horror! Perish the thought....

[IronLionZion]

16. Well since the "job creators" aren't creating enough jobs,

we should give them more money in spite of having record high cash balances that they are not investing or hiring more workers. What's really keeping these efficient private sector companies from hiring is the national debt and food stamps.


And I really do have Republican associates who think if you cut off food stamps, there will be more jobs. No joke.