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matthewf

(3,781 posts) Mon Aug 10, 2015, 09:16 AM Aug 2015

GOP Attempts To Cut SNAP Food Stamps - Katie Klabusich Discusses

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GOP Attempts To Cut SNAP Food Stamps - Katie Klabusich Discusses (Original Post) matthewf Aug 2015 OP

why don't they just come out and say they want to kill people? zazen Aug 2015 #1

You point out a fact we often ignore - when we elect a R govermor or legislature they also make jwirr Aug 2015 #4

Nevermind that SNAP is one of the most effective forms of stimulating the economy Hydra Aug 2015 #2

We all have an interest in this. It directly affects the problems created from a lack of nutrition jtuck004 Aug 2015 #3

zazen

(2,978 posts)

1. why don't they just come out and say they want to kill people?

Reply to matthewf (Original post)

Mon Aug 10, 2015, 09:28 AM

Aug 2015

Am I allowed to make such "over-the-top" comments about GOP policies today?

Here in NC they're gleefully blocking or cutting every benefit they can to people who have no safety net or prospect of living-wage employment.

Indeed, as that nun wrote last week, they are "pro-birth" but not "pro-life" by any stretch.

I know the type of southern GOP racist we have in my state. I grew up with them. I know what they believed as children and I think they're only more dug in in their 40s and 50s. I'm convinced some of them think that poor minorities are vermin who need to be cleaned out. They just can't come out and say it.

"Austerity" is ethnic cleansing. It's like pitching out a hoard. Be "austere." Get rid of those superfluous poor, disabled, and elderly people.

jwirr

(39,215 posts)

4. You point out a fact we often ignore - when we elect a R govermor or legislature they also make

Reply to zazen (Reply #1)

Mon Aug 10, 2015, 11:10 AM

Aug 2015

cuts to these programs - even if the feds are not.

We need to GOTV for our local government as much as we need to vote in the presidential election.

Hydra

(14,459 posts)

2. Nevermind that SNAP is one of the most effective forms of stimulating the economy

Reply to matthewf (Original post)

Mon Aug 10, 2015, 09:29 AM

Aug 2015

But then again, everything is just peachy keen on the economic front, right? Not even getting into people starving while the 1% are sitting on trillions and busy buying our government.

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)

3. We all have an interest in this. It directly affects the problems created from a lack of nutrition

Reply to matthewf (Original post)

Mon Aug 10, 2015, 10:05 AM

Aug 2015

in the population. We are richer with it, and it is destructive to think of going back to the way things were in early history.

The odd thing is that they can say this and people don't just have a gut reaction, it appears, in thinking they are either idiots or traitors. It makes me wonder if, instead of just assuming everyone would see the good in this, had there been 1 hour of Progressive education every week in school to explain "why" we are doing some of the things we do, what the alternatives would be... I wonder if we would be having less of these counterproductive conversations.

Probably not. Too late now.

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