Trump calls for food stamp work requirements in farm bill

[left-of-center2012]

Source: The Hill

President Trump on Thursday urged House and Senate lawmakers to adopt strict work requirements for food stamps when they craft a merged farm bill.

“When the House and Senate meet on the very important Farm Bill – we love our farmers - hopefully they will be able to leave the WORK REQUIREMENTS FOR FOOD STAMPS PROVISION that the House approved,” Trump tweeted. “Senate should go to 51 votes!”

Conservatives have seized on the work requirement provisions as key to a final version of the farm bill.
The House version would require all adults aged 18 to 59 to work at least 20 hours a week or be enrolled in a training program in order to receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits.

The work requirements are projected to cut SNAP enrollment by up to 1 million people and would decrease spending on SNAP by $20 billion over 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/400134-trump-calls-for-food-stamp-work-requirements-in-farm-bill

[sakabatou]

1. So more killing of the poor

[C_U_L8R]

2. What's next... work camps?

[paleotn]

15. Are there no workhouses? Are there no treadmills?

[Stuart G]

3. This is the standard republican garbage..."work requirements"

Trump is cozying up to the right wing pukes to get their support. He will need their support when things get really rough for Trump. He doesn't give a shit about "work requirements" All he cares about is the trouble that he is headed for. He will need all their help...every single republican congress person there is. And the bottom line is he doesn't care if people starve to death without those requirements. All he wants is the republican support when the shit its the fan..

...And it will hit, one way or another. If we take the House and the Senate, it will be a mighty big hit.

[onecaliberal]

4. I hate these rotten republican bastards.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

5. Food stamp recipients will be the replacement to the migrant worker it seems.

Personally, I think we should all super 'DOWN-size' and stop buying everything and generally boycott everything. They don't get to enslave poor people for their food. Hit them where it hurts. Their profits.

[Snellius]

6. No work requirement for soybean queens? Welfare farmers Trump tariffs put out of work.

[left-of-center2012]

7. "projected to cut SNAP enrollment by up to 1 million people"

[TexasBushwhacker]

8. Most SNAP recipients already work

https://www.cbpp.org/research/the-relationship-between-snap-and-work-among-low-income-households

"The number of SNAP households that have earnings while participating in SNAP has been rising for more than a decade, and has more than tripled — from about 2 million in 2000 to about 6.4 million in 2011. (See Figure 2.) The increase was especially pronounced during the recent deep recession, suggesting that many people have turned to SNAP because of under-employment — for example, when one wage-earner in a two-parent family lost a job, when a worker’s hours were cut, or when a worker turned to a lower-paying job after being laid off."

[Bengus81]

9. SNAP---Soybean nutritional ASSISTANCE program.....

Make those hayseeds PROVE they've worked too or no CHECK.

[onethatcares]

12. and pee in two bottles

I wouldn't trust a testing firm like Solanta.

[videohead5]

10. Work?

Something Trump has never really done. he's set on his ass and paid construction companies to build his buildings.

[choie]

11. SNAP helps farmers, you fucker!

If he cares so much about farmers, why would he want to implement a work requirement, which will ultimately decrease the amount of SNAP benefits that are received.

[TomCADem]

18. It Is A Move To Scapegoat Urban Foodstamp Recipients for Harms of His Tariff Policies

As always, Trump tries to turn everything into a race issue.

[kimbutgar]

13. How can you work if there are no jobs in your community?

Or you have you children that you have to care for and paying child care eats your whole paycheck.

[Freethinker65]

14. How about Trump's sons paying for their own business trips?

That would save several million while teaching them something about self sufficiency and responsibility. I understand taxpayers would still have to pay for secret service protection, but certainly the spawn should be paying for their own flights, meals, entertainment, and lodging for their business ventures as most adult businessmen do.

[elmac]

16. Maybe tRump thinks they can all get a job at Apple computer nt

[pazzyanne]

17. And if the money for his wall were used for food stamps

people could continue to get food stamps for 11 years. It is all about your priorities.

PS what about the elderly, physically disabled, people with developmental disabilities, etc?

[moonseller66]

19. 20 hours per week?

That's about 15 hours more than our elected reps work!
Guess they'll be eligible for free meals, transportation minimal healthcare, meaningless education or retraining just like those who really need the help.

If anyone should be required to work to live, it's the Congress and Senate

[dchill]

20. Cruelty as compulsion.

[BaronChocula]

21. Whites exempt (N/T)