Scott Walker insists parents receiving food stamps should work at least 80 hours a month

[still_one]

"Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is lobbying for changes to FoodShare, the state’s food stamp program, reports the Wisconsin State Journal. If the governor has his way, families could lose their benefits unless a parent with school-aged kids works or gets job training 80 hours a month.

Many Republican governors, like Walker and Maine’s Paul LePage, have tried to gut their states’ food stamp programs or apply stricter controls to who has access. Some of these efforts have been thwarted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the federal agency in charge of food stamp programs."

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/scott-walker-insists-parents-receiving-food-stamps-should-work-at-least-80-hours-a-week/

How many times has this asshole been reelected again and again?

[meadowlander]

1. Is he proposing to fund 80 hours of daycare a month for each kid in each of those families?

[Phoenix61]

5. It would impact familes with school age kids

He is obviously clueless about how difficult it is to get a job when you are only available during school hours. What are they supposed to do when the kids are out of school for vacations etc?

[kacekwl]

8. He'll no , but has no problem funding

drug testing them . Doners gota make a buck you know.

[Matthew28]

2. Heartless bastard

Damn, there's a lot of heartless people in this country.

[still_one]

3. You are right. This is obscene

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. Congress and tRump's cabinet is full of them.

[Phoenix61]

4. So who is going to pay for the job training?

If it is an all day program, who is going to pay for childcare? I know lots of folks who would love to go to vo-tech but can't afford the tuition and childcare they would need.

[Doreen]

6. What about the single parents that are disabled and CAN NOT work?

There IS no job training for them because they can not work. Hell what about married couples who are both disabled and can not work? I do know some of those. Oh lets see THEY GOT QUARTER OF THEIR BODY BLOWN UP BY AN IUD AND THE GOVERNMENT DOES NOT RESPECT THEM!!!!!!????? This just angers me.

[Lee-Lee]

14. A pain who is unemployable due to an IED (not IUD) woulld get over $3000 a month in VA disability

If they had a child. Over $3600 with a child and married.

And on top of that the money is exempt from Federal taxes, so it's like making even more than that.

This is a scumbag move, but let's keep the discussion to realistic examples. A person who suffered damage to enough of their body to be unemployable is going to be pushed over the income limits for SNAP by their VA benefits.

And on top of that for those examples there is, in fact, job training from the VA vocational rehab program.

[Doreen]

16. Oops IED.

There are people who were not in the military who became disabled or have always been disabled who can not work no matter how easy some may think the job may be. I know this from my own personal experience also. How are those people supposed to survive?

[dalton99a]

9. From someone who has been leeching off taxpayers all his adult life.

[world wide wally]

10. I'm sorry, but I am so pissed off at the stupid ass voters who keep electing these assholes.

Fuck you all if you vote Republican.
I feel like our votes don't matter anymore so I fucking WILL call you fucking stupid.
That was back when we had the USA. I don't cater to your stupidity anymore.

[workinclasszero]

11. Heartless republican scum

How many hours do the billionaire sports team welfare queen owners have to work for their public paid Arenas and football stadiums Herr Walker?

Republicans are pure filth

[pansypoo53219]

12. is he gonna provide jobs as well?

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

13. What if there are no jobs?

[Sherman A1]

15. Perhaps Mr. Walker

would like to give living on food stamps a try and see how much fun it can be.

[Vinca]

17. Hear that you quadriplegic parents? So what if you can only move your chair by blowing

into a straw. Herr Walker says you must put in 20 hours of labor a week if you want to feed your kids.