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one_voice

(20,043 posts)
Sun Jan 27, 2013, 12:44 AM Jan 2013

Bad report card..No food assistance...

Tennessee Legislator: Cut Food Assistance to Kids With Bad Report Cards

Upon closer read, Mr. Campfield’s proposed legislation does not pull only food assistance. What Mr. Campfield actually wants to do is take away the minimal and time-limited subsidy that struggling Tennessee mothers and fathers can depend on during the hardest of hard times to pay not only for food, but also for other non-food necessities such as heat, water, transportation and shoes for their kids.

Specifically, he wants to yank Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF – called “Families First” in our state) when, per the language in his legislation, children fail to maintain satisfactory progress in school.” And in case you are wondering how Mr. Campfield intends to define “satisfactory progress in school ” for purposes of enforcement of his proposed law, he states that:

If your child is failing their classes, if your child is not showing up to school, if your child has quit school. That is unacceptable.

*snip*

Mr. Campfield is an increasingly disturbing embarrassment to his party, his constituents, and to our state. Getting this man out of office for good in the next election has to be something that people of good conscience from both political parties work together to do. As a Democrat in heavily Republican East Tennessee, I will actively and publicly support the legitimate GOP candidate of good character who looks to have a reasonable shot at ousting Mr. Campfield, if that’s the best way to get the job done.


http://mamapundit.com/2013/01/tennessee-legislator-cut-food-assistance-to-kids-with-bad-report-cards/
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Bad report card..No food assistance... (Original Post) one_voice Jan 2013 OP
Yeah, STARVATION will improve those study habits! Warpy Jan 2013 #1
Because you can't always cure stupid mythology Jan 2013 #4
it really is something to think about JI7 Jan 2013 #2
Please, Mr. Bumble, I want some more. ananda Jan 2013 #3
Save the unborn, starve the children. n/t cynatnite Jan 2013 #5
Yes, it is amazing how their attitude changes between unborn and post-born /eom dballance Jan 2013 #6
Hateful, sick bastards. Th1onein Jan 2013 #7

Warpy

(110,900 posts)
1. Yeah, STARVATION will improve those study habits!
Sun Jan 27, 2013, 12:54 AM
Jan 2013

Who ARE these assholes? And why doesn't somebody grab them by the ties and not let go until a little COMMON SENSE manages to sink in?

 

mythology

(9,527 posts)
4. Because you can't always cure stupid
Sun Jan 27, 2013, 01:06 AM
Jan 2013

This is what happens when you are so successful in demonizing the "other" that you can't think of them as even potentially human.

JI7

(89,172 posts)
2. it really is something to think about
Sun Jan 27, 2013, 01:00 AM
Jan 2013

that these people see basic needs like food in terms of rewards, punishments etc.

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