Trump wants to impose work requirement for food stamp users

[PostmodernProphet]

Working for food stamps is almost as degrading as being Sean Spicer.

do you feel the same way about working for a pay check?......

 

[PostmodernProphet]

Better to be born a bastard than be born a conservative, Trump supporter, or whatever the hell you are.

I'll take bastard any day.

you've earned it.......

 

[Nomad]

HAHAHA. You call that a response? My post was "Food stamps should only be good for rice, flour, sugar, and rolled oats.", and that's all you can come up with.?

You actually think that idiotic puke you vomited deserved a better response???

You really are delusional.

 

[Nomad]

HAHAHA. What a stupid thing to say. As long as my taxes pay for YOUR welfare benefits it is my business. THINK

No it is not.

So just SHUT THE FUCK UP AND KEEP PAYING YOUR TAXES LIKE A GOOD LITTLE DRONE.

And remember... THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT!!!!

 

[Granule]

Without a social safety net, crime exponentially increases. You become less safe and you pay more to the government to keep the chronically poor in cages. Canada is experimenting with eliminating welfare in certain areas, but they're replacing it with a minimum income for all citizens of certain towns (like 20k a year).

But you just said.... Oh, never mind. lol

 

[Darth Omar]

It does sound logical to me but its never really been done. So what is the counter argument? Why not do this?

I thought Rosevelt did it with the New Deal.

 

[Amadeus]

I find it amusing that conservatives foster the conditions that lead to poverty, and instead of helping people out of poverty, they punch down, punish and demonize the people requiring assistance, and refuse to help them get out of poverty. I suggest that people be helped to advance their lives and thus boost the economy and reduce the economic burden of assistance, and I am accused of being a bad person.

Trump supporter logic.

 

[Granule]

Or you could mind your business.

I'm down for that. Just help Uncle Sam keep his hands off my wallet.

 

[Darth Omar]

I find it amusing that conservatives foster the conditions that lead to poverty, and instead of helping people out of poverty, they punch down, punish and demonize the people requiring assistance, and refuse to help them get out of poverty. I suggest that people be helped to advance their lives and thus boost the economy and reduce the economic burden of assistance, and I am accused of being a bad person.

Trump supporter logic.

Most people want out of poverty but they need opportunities more than hand outs.

Jobs. MAGA.

 

[Amadeus]

I'm down for that. Just help Uncle Sam keep his hands off my wallet.

Now who's the freeloader?

 

[Granule]

I find it amusing that conservatives foster the conditions that lead to poverty,

Break that down for me, will you? How are we doing that?

and instead of helping people out of poverty, they punch down, punish and demonize the people requiring assistance, and refuse to help them get out of poverty.

How do we get people OUT of poverty comrade? God knows your democrat party hasn't done shit, so maybe you can educate them as well as us!

I suggest that people be helped to advance their lives and thus boost the economy and reduce the economic burden of assistance, and I am accused of being a bad person.

Trump supporter logic.

But how do we help advance their lives? Please. Impart some of your wisdom.

 

[Amadeus]

Most people want out of poverty but they need opportunities more than hand outs.

Chronically disadvantaged people need training. That's why I advocate programs -- that cost virtually nothing -- to help people GET jobs. Studies have shown that this is the most effective way to get people off assistance. But trying to confront a Trump supporter facts is like giving a football to a monkey.

 

[GazzaQueen]

Hey, racists. He supports them.

 

[Granule]

Now who's the freeloader?

The people on perpetual welfare. Have you not been paying attention?

 

[GazzaQueen]

No, the 1% has figured it out as well, but the stupid ones support that. The poor take $200 in food stamps, the rich take millions.

The poor "take."

The rest of us "earn."

 

[Granule]

Chronically disadvantaged people need training. That's why I advocate programs -- that cost virtually nothing -- to help people GET jobs. Studies have shown that this is the most effective way to get people off assistance. But trying to confront a Trump supporter facts is like giving a football to a monkey.

Sounds like a fantastic program. Why would we oppose that?

 

[Amadeus]

Break that down for me, will you? How are we doing that?

Tough sentences for drug offenses, bank rolling cities (e.g. Ferguson) off minorities, removing economic resources for urban areas, limit access to abortion, promoting a lack of education for sexual education, eliminating useful social programs that target the poor. Got a question on any of this?

How do we get people OUT of poverty comrade?

As someone who has been in and out of poverty, and has actually paid it forward and helped people get out of poverty, I know that mandatory work training and back to work programs can turn someone's life around. Help people with NO skills acquire the minimum wage skills. Conservatives talk about teaching a man to fish, but then sabotage their fishing rod, then kick them in the water.

 

[Amadeus]

The poor "take."

The rest of us "earn."

Meanwhile Trump has 'taken' at least a billion in bank loans (after blowing through his inheritance), lost that billion, mocked the banks for being stupid enough to give him loans, and until recently earned his fortune by being perpetually in debt to foreign banks.

Or as Trump supporters call it: A good resume for being president.

 

[Amadeus]

Sounds like a fantastic program. Why would we oppose that?

I don't know, ask the people that have opposed it in this thread.

 

[Rune]

ok lets make something clear, being paid something for DOING something, is not slavery.

If they don't like our (the taxpayers) demands to work for OUR money, then they can fuck right off and figure somehow else to survive.

If it's My money, it's my say on what you have to do to get it.

I don't want my money used to finance drones and landmines used in sovereign nations we are not at war with.
Sadly my opinion is meaningless to the government and so is yours.