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I haven't been following the Chicago race at all and had no serious opinion on MIGF's political career before it, but I've really liked all of the photo ops he's done and the people he's posing with tweeting out how much of a miserable rear end in a top hat he is.
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So whats going on with Missouri and their bill to ban people on SNAP from buying steak or seafood?
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Apr 7, 2015 07:18
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KomradeX posted:So whats going on with Missouri and their bill to ban people on SNAP from buying steak or seafood? Please tell me you're joking
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Apr 7, 2015 07:23
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We probably spend at least $100b every year just loving with poor people to satisfy conservatives.
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Apr 7, 2015 07:27
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PostNouveau posted:Please tell me you're joking If they are, say hello to a new party plank because it's too good to leave out.
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Apr 7, 2015 07:40
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PostNouveau posted:Please tell me you're joking It's a republican controlled legistature. Drink up. In a nutshell, Republicans are butthurt that people getting less than $7/day for food put enough aside to treat themselves because how dare those poors enjoy their lives for a moment every once in a great while. You know, ignoring that seafood and lean red meat are nutritious parts of any diet when in moderation, etc. Also the sponsor of the bill claiming he can't afford filet mignon and lobster while food stamp supporters can is something that makes me too furious to actually laugh at.
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Apr 7, 2015 07:41
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VitalSigns posted:[Lobster]. It's like grey poupon. It only costs a few bucks but if a poor person eats it then it's all the proof that someone with a yacht and a dancing horse needs that the poor are grifters who are living high off the government.
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Apr 7, 2015 07:50
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I would love to see some Republicans write up meal plans based on a food stamp budget for a month. Would they even think to include beans and rice? Or would it be mac and cheese and offbrand Froot Loops all the way down?
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Article: Missouri Republicans are trying to ban food stamp recipients from buying steak and seafood From: Chicago Tribune Date: April 5, 2015 quote:In 2013, Fox News proudly broadcast an interview with a young food stamp recipient who claimed to be using the government benefit to purchase lobster and sushi.
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Apr 7, 2015 07:56
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Accretionist posted:Article: Missouri Republicans are trying to ban food stamp recipients from buying steak and seafood These people should be put up against a loving wall.
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Apr 7, 2015 07:59
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KomradeX posted:These people should be put up against a loving wall. Oh no, you've inflamed them with your violent rhetoric.  Now they'll try to rub out poor people even harder.
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Apr 7, 2015 08:03
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Accretionist posted:Article: Missouri Republicans are trying to ban food stamp recipients from buying steak and seafood So... How do they intend to enforce it and how much will it cost?
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Apr 7, 2015 08:06
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Republicans posted:So... How do they intend to enforce it and how much will it cost? Probably the same way they do for prepared foods and like always it'll cost more than is lost to poor people doing this. SedanChair posted:Oh no, you've inflamed them with your violent rhetoric. Oh no, what have I done? I must have been the real racist all along!
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Apr 7, 2015 08:09
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My state owns.
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KomradeX posted:... it'll cost more than is lost to poor people doing this. Of American politics' great ironies, fighting teen pregnancy by telling teens condoms don't work is second only to the fiscal conservative's de facto insistence on inefficiency and waste. The chronically homeless of central Florida cost about ~$30,000/head/year, mostly by way of law enforcement and medical costs. A [Free Housing + Case Worker] program would cut that to ~$10,000/head/year. Or, in other words, given their population, conservatives will have Florida spend $100,000,000+ over ten years to keep the homeless on the streets. Every leftie or centrist I've gone over this with has been sold just with some details about the program or the research. They like that it helps people. They like that it reduces crime. They like that it cleans up the streets. They like that it saves money and increases efficiency. But the conservatives? I've yet to find a single one that can get past the whole, "They don't deserve it," angle. It's loving crazy.
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I work in the same building as the man in charge of running Missouri's Medicare/Medicaid programs and he makes $33,000,000 a year lol.
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Accretionist posted:Of American politics' great ironies, fighting teen pregnancy by telling teens condoms don't work is second only to the fiscal conservative's de facto insistence on inefficiency and waste. Yeah, this is what I was getting at every conservative programs from drug testing to tax cuts costs us more money than other alternatives and yet they still advocate for them. Not because they care about being fiscally responsible but because they want people to suffer. I had a conservative friend of mine once say in response to being told that food stamps generate a dollar fifty for every dollar spent, "If I give you a dollar how do I have a dollar fifty?" They are incapable of seeing anything beyond their personal experience. This guy has also said to me that health insurance should be done away with so health care can be run on capitalist principles, that he doesn't understand why a mutual friend of ours would be upset if someone was being anti-semetic toward him and that Mike Brown and Eric Garner got what they deserve. Gen X is worse than the loving Boomers and conservatism is some kind of sociopathy since it seems to be rooted in lacking empathy for others
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As proof of the new rising tide of freedom against the tyranny of social justice warriors and Tumblr, I present to you the resounding success of a quiet revolution in sci/fi and fantasy writing: The Hugo Awards were swept by Sad Puppies.
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Amergin posted:As proof of the new rising tide of freedom against the tyranny of social justice warriors and Tumblr, I present to you the resounding success of a quiet revolution in sci/fi and fantasy writing: The Hugo Awards were swept by Sad Puppies. Who could possibly care?
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Amergin posted:As proof of the new rising tide of freedom against the tyranny of social justice warriors and Tumblr, I present to you the resounding success of a quiet revolution in sci/fi and fantasy writing: The Hugo Awards were swept by Sad Puppies. Finally white men with libertarian and right-authoritarian political leanings have a voice in the world of genre fiction. It's a glorious new day! Edit: Re: Conservatives willing to spend money to gently caress over things they hate, up until yesterday there was a possibility that the state of Indiana would decide not to fund the Amtrak Hoosier State line between Indy and Chicago. Since Amtrak uses that train to move equipment between their Chicago hub and their Beech Grove maintenance shops in Indy, a bunch of jobs that combined pay more in state income taxes alone than what it would cost the state to fund the line would disappear with the train. I forget the exact numbers, but essentially it would cost the state 7 figures/year to not fund the line. Yet a number of conservative politicians advocated for that, because of all the usual reasons conservatives oppose publicly funded transport. Theris fucked around with this message at 11:21 on Apr 7, 2015 |
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Apr 7, 2015 11:00
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Quote of the morning, "Should have put $10,000 on my bracket." ~ Mitt Romney
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Joementum posted:Warren is... running for President and people who like Warren (myself included!) should be happy about that. Holy poo poo!
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Accretionist posted:Article: Missouri Republicans are trying to ban food stamp recipients from buying steak and seafood More Onion articles becoming laws. quote:“There’s no reason she should be loading up on those pricey TV dinners if she’s getting the government to pay for it,” Gaither told reporters at a local Super Stop and Shop, training her prodigious faculties on a welfare recipient using a benefit card in front of her in the checkout line. “If I were on food stamps, I’d just buy two whole chickens and a bag of potatoes—you could feed a family for a week on that and still have money left over.” 
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SedanChair posted:Oh no, you've inflamed them with your violent rhetoric.  Accretionist posted:Article: Missouri Republicans are trying to ban food stamp recipients from buying steak and seafood Getting angry when poor people eat fancy feasts instead of Fancy Feast.
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Apr 7, 2015 13:33
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Accretionist posted:Article: Missouri Republicans are trying to ban food stamp recipients from buying steak and seafood "Oh ho ho," says Kansas. "Look at you Missouri, thinking you're hot poo poo. Well, you ain't seen nothin'." quote:Kansas welfare recipients will be unable to get more than $25 per day in ATM cash withdrawals under a new law sent this week to Republican Gov. Sam Brownback's desk by the state legislature. The maximum TANF benefit for Kansas is $429 a month which will no longer be wasted on Caribbean vacations and swimming pools!
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Apr 7, 2015 13:36
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Bonus quote of the morning, "I just announced for President because I want you to keep more of your hard-earned money" ~ Rand Paul fundraising letter.
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Accretionist posted:Of American politics' great ironies, fighting teen pregnancy by telling teens condoms don't work is second only to the fiscal conservative's de facto insistence on inefficiency and waste. Houston and a few other cities have been going pretty hard with these programs, especially with vets (since that's an easy sell) and single mothers. I spoke with the head of the Houston program a couple of months ago and even he was impressed with how well the program has worked and he designed it. http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Homeless-population-continues-to-decline-5514857.php quote:The number of people placed into permanent supportive housing, which has no limit on how long a person can stay and is connected with intensive social services, has jumped 81 percent over three years, according to the coalition. Neal Rackleff, leader of the city's housing department, said the region is on track to build the last 1,000 units needed by the deadline. http://www.chron.com/opinion/editorials/article/Helping-homeless-veterans-4772484.php http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Parker-shifts-housing-priority-to-homeless-4058503.php http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Houston-reports-progress-in-combating-homelessness-5765543.php
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Which state will change welfare to just mean all the beans and rice they can haul in their cadi?
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But they didn't deserve it! Why should I work hard everyday when I can just have everything GIVEN TO ME!!
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I'm waiting for it to be only food you can scrape off your body after Tea Partiers get to pelt you with it.
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Joementum posted:Bonus quote of the morning, "I just announced for President because I want you to keep more of your hard-earned money" ~ Rand Paul fundraising letter.
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Radish posted:I'm waiting for it to be only food you can scrape off your body after Tea Partiers get to pelt you with it. "We realized that we were actually diminishing your potential by giving you hand outs, therefor we are switching to rocks."
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Reading over the last few pages of this thread this morning -- with Rand, MO TANF, etc. -- gives me a feeling that the race to the bottom is speeding up. A sort of acceleration, if you will. 
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DemeaninDemon posted:Which state will change welfare to just mean all the beans and rice they can haul in their cadi? That's too generous. Welfare should clearly be all the rice and beans you can fit in both hands, once a week 
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blunt for century posted:That's too generous. Welfare should clearly be all the rice and beans you can fit in both hands, once a week That sounds reasonable, it might not seem much but rice and beans expand when you cook them.
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Update on Todd Kincannon (former South Carolina GOP head and douche bag) story from last months thread. He was arrested for criminal domestic violence while they are working on kidnapping charge. http://www.wistv.com/story/28734435/attorney-former-sc-gop-chair-arrested-on-cdv-complaint
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I'm 675 posts behind but I just want to point out "President Rand Paul" is an anagram of "A ripened turd's plan" Have a nice week
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DemeaninDemon posted:Which state will change welfare to just mean all the beans and rice they can haul in their cadi? Don't forget "blocks of cheese" which is my favorite food item that shows up in those FWD:FWD:FWD "this teenager knows what to do!!!" emails
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God drat do Republicans hate poor people. 95% OF " " " "LOW INCOME" " " " HOUSEHOLDS OWN A REFRIGERATOR
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Monkey Fracas posted:God drat do Republicans hate poor people. its even worse then u think... 
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