When I was a real little kid, summer was always a hard time for me to eat because I was cut off from the subsidized lunch program. My mother was severely mentally ill and barely provided a meal a day sometimes. Food stamps, subsidized lunch programs and food shelves provided most of my nutrition, it was a benefit she couldn’t divert away from feeding me and my siblings most of the time.
Anybody who supports removing these programs is legitimately a monster. It keeps so many kids alive or from developing horrific nutritional deficiencies. It has nothing but a positive impact on the community and economy.
Remember folks, the cruelty is the point.
https://www.npr.org/2021/07/08/1014208767/trumps-america-and-why-the-cruelty-is-the-point
Most of the time, you are not looking at someone who believes it’s for the best that food programs are cuts.
You are looking at someone who is prepared to do that, to activate their base.
I was wondering about this, like deep down inside does she really believe that this is the path to a better world? Doubtful.
They don’t believe in making a better world overall. They believe in making a better world for themselves.
Children should just fucking starve. They should think twice about being born poor.
THIS IS LITERALLY WHAT REPUBLICANS SAY. WHAT THEY THINK. THEY DON’T EVEN TRY TO HIDE IT. THIS IS A ACTUAL TALKING POINT
She literally said there’s too many obese kids, so we shouldn’t feed them with welfare.
If you prune their roots and little branches then you can keep them small. Also using wire to shape them can create a more interesting character.
I’m pretty sure that’s how it works.
She literally got up and argued that she hates the program that allows poor people to chose their own food and wants a programs where the state chooses food for you.
Small government my ass.
Worse than that: she said that Iowa will not help feed starving children because other children in the entire rest of the country are fat.
40 fucking dollars per month per kid. That might pay for a month’s worth of rice but isn’t a week’s worth for fruits, vegetables, and protein!
Right. We should be offering way more than $40 a month per kid and the fact that republicans want to cut what is basically a pittance shows how cruel they are.
A month’s worth of rice would actually be a pretty smart choice for the money. Unfortunately that’s not how that pittance will be spent.
Yeah it’d be ideal if all of them had perfectly cooked and prepared meals with well researched nutritional balance and a balanced food and flavor profile.
But somehow Republicans want small government that leaves people alone except when it comes to their genitals, bathroom habits, access to books, or apparently what kind of food they get.
I guess we can continue to judge the poorest among us for what we view as poor choices with their social benefits.
I’m not even against some of the ideas, but denying people what they have because it’s not your perfect idea of what they should have is just cruel. Work towards better, don’t use people’s suffering as leverage.
