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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on February 01, 2014, 04:46:15 PM
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They like to claim Red states take more federal aid than they pay in federal taxes.
But then this story cropped-up and they forgot that chant in the midst of their outrage:
Bill USA (3,044 posts)
SHOCKING: 97% of foodstamp cuts to target just 15 blue states
e-mail from Paul Hogarth, Daily Kos
http://campaigns.dailykos.com/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=743
Sign and send a petition to your Senator: Food stamp cuts hurt blue states
The U.S. House just passed a Farm Bill that cuts food stamps by $8.7 billion, and it now faces a vote in the Senate soon. But it’s worse than you think.
Almost all of the food stamp cuts come from 16 states and the District of Columbia--the rest of the nation is left virtually untouched.
Further, 15 of these 16 states voted for President Obama twice, and 28 of its 32 senators are Democrats. In other words, these cuts are targeted overwhelmingly at poor folks in blue states.
Democrats who vote for the Farm Bill are forcing their own constituents and voters to bear the overwhelming burden of food stamp cuts.
If you live in one of these 16 states, sign and send our petition to your senators—urging them to reject the Farm Bill when it comes to a vote on the Senate floor.
Tell the Repugnants to go **** themselves - instead of the entire country, for a change.
JanT (205 posts)
2. i guess i am a little naive
but how can you target states under a federal program? i guess i don't understand how the system works. if the REPUGlicans do this, then the word needs to go viral and fast. This is reprehensible to say the least and a direct attack on those states that voted in Obama. Just when i thought they couldn't stoop any lower, they have proven me wrong. them all.
Mass (25,845 posts)
4. because it aims the heat and eat program, that is mostly used in Northern blue states
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with the old system, $1 of help for heating qualified you for food stamps. With the new farm bill, the limit is $20.
This is not a conspiracy per se, as some Democrats in states who do not use heat and eat wanted it abolished as well, and this is a battle that has been going on for years now, but it happens that those are blue states mostly.
Wounded Bear (4,470 posts)
3. "Blue" states tend to be the most populous...
and have the biggest urban poor populations.
I'm not so sure this is completely "targeted" in a conspiracy sense. There are just fewer food stamp recipients in red states.
stillwaiting (1,040 posts)
5. I despise Republicans.
With every fiber of my being.
They are the most vile, nasty, greedy, hypocritical creatures by far. I mean, we're all hypocrites to some extent, but they are just off the charts.
Now I need to go meditate.
blm (90,842 posts)
6. Chris Christie style of governance. It's the Republican Way.
What makes this so different than the way Christie was targeting Sandy recovery funds?
Well, you idiots want everything to be government supplied.
Okay. You go do that while I fix upgrade the voting machines.
:fuelfire:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024427400
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As far as I understand the reason that the blue states are getting cut more is because they are abusing the link between heating assistance and food stamps. Apparently if a family/person gets $1 of heating help then they qualify for more food stamp money. The scam is that the blue state pitches in a single dollar of heating aid and the feds pick up the resulting food stamp increased cost.
They are getting cut because they got caught and even some (D) congress critters are supporting the cut.
As somebody on here says quite often - Dummies (and democrats) lie
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Why do they hate republicans so much....hell....republicans are the ones paying most of the income taxes that support their lazy asses.
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Wounded Bear (4,470 posts)
3. "Blue" states tend to be the most populous...
and have the biggest urban poor populations.
I'm not so sure this is completely "targeted" in a conspiracy sense. There are just fewer food stamp recipients in red states.
Moling poorly, this one is. Future granite, I predict.
Now onto educating the dummies. It is true that red states do receive more in federal dollars. Most of them have military bases in them and in the case of Florida, retirees. Not to mention more highways, etc. The key here dummies is this: Blue states have more welfare recipients than red states. They also have larger black, hispanic and other minorities that get government freebies. That is money that gets nothing in return. Like the injured Ursus americanus said above, blue states have the most poor people.
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Wounded Bear (4,470 posts)
3. "Blue" states tend to be the most populous...
and have the biggest urban poor populations
Democrats elected = people staying poor. I am shocked they still have not put this together yet. :whatever:
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JanT (205 posts)
2. i guess i am a little naive
but how can you target states under a federal program? i guess i don't understand how the system works.
Stop that, Mole! You'll mellow their harsh.
That widdle inconvenient fact that blue states suck a larger and disproportionate share of the freebies.....
....because their economies are so improved. ::)
Wounded Bear (4,470 posts)
3. "Blue" states tend to be the most populous...
and have the biggest urban poor populations
Still? Almost 50 years of wARoNPoVerTY!!!!!11, brilliant Progressive solutions to problems of their own creation and imagination, the Nobel-worthy economic policies of Cardigan Carter, TheRapist and the smartest human being on record?
Whaaaaa? But, Recover Summer V fixed everything, right?
There are just fewer food stamp recipients in red states.
Not just food stamps recipients, careful Mole.
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As far as I understand the reason that the blue states are getting cut more is because they are abusing the link between heating assistance and food stamps. Apparently if a family/person gets $1 of heating help then they qualify for more food stamp money. The scam is that the blue state pitches in a single dollar of heating aid and the feds pick up the resulting food stamp increased cost.
They are getting cut because they got caught and even some (D) congress critters are supporting the cut.
As somebody on here says quite often - Dummies (and democrats) lie
Read something about that. Complete (D)Marxist fraud.