GOP Food Stamp Plan Would Shift Some Funds From Benefits To Training

[Miles Archer]

GOP Food Stamp Plan Would Shift Some Funds From Benefits To Training

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/republican-food-stamp-plan_us_5abaaca4e4b03e2a5c770ce0



The proposal to reauthorize the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program would subject more enrollees to “work requirements,” and would require states to set up training programs for 3 to 5 million people who might be unable to find suitable private sector work. Such programs currently serve 700,000 SNAP recipients.

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A spokesperson for House Agriculture Committee Chairman Rep. Mike Conaway (R-Texas), who’s been holding hearings on overhauling food stamps since 2015 and is the author of the bill, did not immediately confirm or deny the details of the legislation.

Conaway has said in recent weeks that his SNAP overhaul wouldn’t reduce federal spending on the program. According to the Democratic summary, “the billions of dollars in cuts to food benefits would be used to create state bureaucracies.”

Democrats say the work requirements proposal could potentially deny benefits to 3 percent of enrollees in 2027. According to Congressional Budget Office enrollment projections, that would amount to nearly 1 million people that year.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Love to have a SERIOUS conversation with this murderer

I think you are a murderer

When others realize that, motherfucker, your days in power are numbered

As opposed to your ways, we will remove your ass peacefully and legally

[Ohiogal]

2. This is just outrageous!

SNAP benefits are so meager to begin with. But the repukes have to make everyone beg for every scrap.

[blake2012]

3. evil fucks. here's a package of pork&beans dropped off via Amazon. now go learn how to weld.

"If you are not constantly producing for us at minimal cost to us, you are of no use."--Paul Ryan

NO, Paul Ryan did not literally say my quote above. But he surely believes it.

[jodymarie aimee]

4. A single adult in WI

gets the max of $15 a MONTH. Pennies a day. Walker has made 9 cuts since he took office...They really can't fuck them any worse.

[Ohiogal]

6. We can't have that!

Lazy leeches living off the government teat! Encouraging dependency! That's $15 that we could use to teach abstinence or give to a religious charter school! (I can hear them now).

They are truly despicable.

[onecaliberal]

5. How do you train for a job when you already work at a job for slave wages.

These fucking assholes are evil pricks.

[Matthew28]

7. The rich

are always taking from the poor. They must want the poor to die as they see the little guy as a "resource" to use(to get rich off of) and if we die so what.

Rot in hell Paul ryan.

[BigmanPigman]

8. I read that the spending bill did a GOOD thing for food stamp recipients.

The GOP was planning on giving recipients expensive Blue Apron type boxes of prepared food instead of actual "money that could be wasted on something other than food". The bill stopped that idea and is one of the things in the bill that the Dems are happy about and is making Ann Coulter have a very bad, terrible, horrible day".

[Voltaire2]

9. Training on how to starve?

[Elwood P Dowd]

11. Training in the following areas...

How to harvest road kill.

How to cook and digest weeds.

How to dumpster dive for food.

[gratuitous]

10. Training, huh?

How about funding public schools at a level where the teachers are well-paid with small class sizes, the school buildings are outfitted with state-of-the-art facilities (other than the football field), and the students live in decent housing and get proper nutrition? I'll bet we'd see salutary results almost immediately, and the long-term benefits of healthy, well-educated citizens would serve the country for generations to come.