Freedom Caucus Demands Big Welfare Cuts

[DonViejo]

June 30, 2017 at 9:29 am EDT By Taegan Goddard

Vox: “Congressional conservatives see an opportunity to push for more than $200 billion in cuts to welfare programs, including Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and food stamps (SNAP), that serve as a safety net for the nation’s most vulnerable population — on top of cuts already being pursued in the health care bill.”

“This group of conservatives, the House Freedom Caucus, recently emboldened by extracting key concessions from Trump in order to pass his health care bill through the House last month, is feeling the strength of its leverage over the party — it knows that without its members’ votes, the budget resolution is doomed, and with it, for the next year at least, any hope of passing tax reform through the Senate on a strictly party-line vote.”

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https://politicalwire.com/2017/06/30/freedom-caucus-demands-big-welfare-cuts/

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Again, limited resources, poor should go away or die.

That is the agenda.

Dont pretend it is something else, and we will get along just fine, I say.

Yes, I think 35-40% or more of America will say they are good with the poor dying.

[haele]

5. 35 - 40% of Americans think their community is the only America.

So only the 100 or so mile radius, or maybe their state, is self-sufficient enough to deserve the protection of Governance, Laws, and the Constitution.
Everywhere else is the Fake America that is trying to take their money and stuff away, so if the rest of the country were to be nuked, it wouldn't affect them in the slightest - except maybe allow them to keep on living the way they want.
Of course, they also think TV and the Internet are magical artifacts that bring them entertainment and delivers packages to their doors, and that anything that isn't grown or produced in their neighborhoods or rural locales magically appears in stores that are apparently only there so they can buy stuff.

Get rid of a few hundred million people who don't look like them or follow their particular religion or social rules - hell, that just means things will be easier for them.

Less people to have to listen to when they complain about "their rights being taken away" because they don't "chose to" conform to what the Real America is all about.

It's not just rural or poor areas where this happens - the wealthy are especially prone to class based "Real America" thinking, but ultimately it' still a simplistic, provincial mindset.

Haele

[SoCalNative]

2. Great

let's start with CORPORATE welfare first.

[Missn-Hitch]

3. But then they would have only ONE yacht.

[Gothmog]

4. The GOP does not believe in government and so the GOP is bad at governing

We are headed for a govt. shutdown unless the Freedom Caucus backs down or unless Paul Ryan cuts a deal with the Democrats