I really wish people would stop saying that Republicans want to starve kids to pay for tax cuts for billionaires. Poverty isn't a consequence of their schemes, it's the fucking point of them. See, the power of even a billionaire is limited if people can afford to say no. Their perfect world is a handful of billionaires, and everybody else so desperately poor that they'll do ANYTHING to survive.
This post kinda highlights that. Cutting eligibility for WIC by requiring separate applications won't actually save any money. Any "savings" will be eaten up by added administrative costs. Throwing people off the program is the only goal here.
Doubly so since WIC is a fairly cheap program and even total elimination wouldn't pay for much of a tax cut. And of course Republicans have already said that they'll pass those tax cuts regardless of whether or not they're paid for.
Don't let them frame the conversations, Wonkette. This ain't about saving money for tax cuts. It's about deliberately creating poverty so the billionaires can have their serfs. It always has been.
// Besides, just think of the savings to taxpayers, at least until many of those expendable children reach school age and are less able to learn, putting them on the fast track to dropping out, unemployment, and crime. Maybe assigning more cops in the schools would move the process along.
//
Now, now -- you're neglecting the *huge* future profits for the for-profit prison industry, not to mention all the mostly-free labor for the states that use incarceration as a means of legal slavery.
It's been a very long time since any "conservative" cared about hungry children. Although, I imagine they'd be happy to open up "orphanages," where children were fed, and put to work by the age of 5 at whatever manual labor they could manage. Those who don't work, don't eat - says Republican Jesus, without any additional information.
The mere millionaires or even multi-millionaires among us need to know they are far more likely to slip through the cracks and need assistance than they are of breaking into the ranks of the billionaires. Since the only way they ever see the light is when something affects them personally, well, I can't wait to meet them down here.
People who blurt racist things just because they believe they're rich enough to do so without pushback generally don't care if little kids of color end up starving
Mapes Jr had severe GERD and a corn allergy as an infant. The only formula they could tolerate was Ready-Made Similac Alimentum, which cost $10/L and we went through a liter a day.
Without WIC: $280 - $310 a month
Our pediatrician wrote a prescription for the formula and with that on file, WIC covered 26 liters every month.
With WIC: $20 - $50 a month
WIC allowed me to feed my baby and still have money to feed myself. Now we depend on SNAP.
People who have never experienced the shame and embarrassment that comes from quietly asking the clerk to put back items so you can actually pay for the rest don’t need tax cuts. It is utterly fucking enraging that a man whose personal fortune could end Food Insecurity for everyone on the planet would rather us die and decrease the surplus population.
Most of you know that I work in an FQHC (federally qualified health center) in The South Bronx. All of my clients are HIV positive adults. Apart from the tiny number of undocumented people whose meds are paid for by ADAP (AIDS Drug Assistance Program), they're all on Medicaid and all get SNAP benefits. No small number of them are functionally illiterate, and applying or re-applying for ANYTHING is beyond their ability to handle by themselves, with a few notable exceptions. People are going to STARVE and people are going to DIE and Republicans are going to congratulate themselves on a job well done. I'm job hunting, in part because my boss (not my supervisor, who is a gem) is a gaslighting asshole of the first order, but also because once federal funds for FQHCs are cut to the bone, there won't be jobs for me or others in my department. I grieve for this country.
Thanks for being there for them. It's horrible andheartbreaking at times. I know. I've been there for a childhood friend dying in the 90's. I was there daily for a year and a half....I really should hate Reagan and his ilk more than I do.
Is the United States fast becoming the land of the racists and the greedy? is this just a societal phase before we become a truly democratic country?
Hasn't History shown us the rise and fall of these kinds of civilizations to wake the populace up and say, "enough of this!" rather than saying that everyone is equal under the law but no one really believes it??
"Republicans are again considering letting children in low-income families go hungry so that billionaires can profit"
This should come as no surprise to anyone. The RINOs know which side the bread is buttered on. Low-income families can do nothing more for the asshats in the New GOP other than waste a vote on them; OTOH, the billionaire class can fund their every wet dream. It doesn't take a stable genius to realize who will get the attention -- Big Biz must not be hindered in attempts to score obscene profits to keep those in the C-Suites and major stockholders happy.
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"You meet the income requirements for either of those, and you can sign up for WIC, because the income rules are roughly the same. Saves families headaches, and saves the federal government the cost and processing hassle of doing redundant paperwork.
But Republicans want to save some money for billionaires by tightening eligibility for SNAP and Medicaid, and that would mean fewer families could use the shortcut for WIC."
The hypocrisy of the RINOs knows no bounds. Elmo the Man-child and DOGE are looking for ways to cut the budget, so eliminate social safety nets while unnecessarily increasing the amount of bureaucratic paperwork by duplicating forms that serve the same purpose; now that is sound, efficient use of gubmint resources. (Of course, the increase in bureaucratic spending won't come close to the amount saved by slashing social safety nets, so it will still be a net positive.)
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"That’s the idea, of course, because Republicans are scum who like throwing up arbitrary barriers to poor people getting help even when they’re eligible for it."
Also to be expected. Being poor is for losers and suckers; if the poor were really concerned about their financial situation they would pull themselves up by their bootstraps and go find a job that will pay enough to improve their lot in life. If they're not willing to do that, then why should the taxpayers continue to foot the bill for them to continue suckling on the country's teat?
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"Given that 11.6% of SNAP recipients are preschool-aged children, this could mean that at least 359,600 infants and young children would lose their automatic WIC eligibility."
So what if it means the gubmint can cut up to $115 billion in unnecessary expenses (like feed the children and infants of the poor and working poor)?
If these people can't afford to feed their children they had no right to have them in the first place!
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"Republicans always insist that big tax cuts help everyone, even though the reality is that they mostly help the already very wealthy become more obscenely wealthy."
This is the "Trickle Down Economy" that St Ronnie proved was such a very successful boost to the economy, yes? Three jeers for billionaire largesse.
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"The great part is that the people who write the changes into law, and the people who benefit, won’t ever meet the people who get hurt"
The 2025 version of the Morlocks (the moneyed elite) and the Eloi (the rest of us).
During the Civil Rights problem in the 1950's, Black Americans protested by not using public transportation and walking instead, causing a dent on city budgets. Perhaps Americans need to re-visit this quiet protest by foregoing buying at big box companies and go local instead, or at least those proven to be open to social concerns (Costco).
We need to remind ourselves that corporations exist because the consumers allow it.
Our Congress must be getting tips from the private insurance companies who specialize in putting up barriers to healthcare. "You don't have to get rid of it, you just have to make it nearly impossible to access! Win, win."
A young woman who got on the teevees because she was an undecided voter comes to mind. I think she was in Michigan. Anywho, she couldn't make up her mind because she needed more details. Specifically, about the child tax credit. Exactly how much money will she receive, she wanted to know.
Well now she can apply those brilliant critical thinking skills to figuring out how to pay for food for her fucking kids. Whoops.
This is exactly what a Pennsylvania county is doing to a company who wishes to inspect their Nov4 presidential voting process under the Freedom of Information law. They told the company they have to go through a process of asking for other information, to which they then responded that "It doesn't exist."
for the past 8 years or so, there is a narrative that is easy to follow:
1. in 2020, voting machine software was copied by Trump operatives in Colorado and Georgia for which people went to jail;
2. most likely handed to Musk for his IT engineers to add some fanthom algorithm;
3. Musk made a $300M contribution to Trump's campaign;
4. Starlink has gov't contracts to update voting machines;
5. Trump praises Musk in various stops about what a genius he is with computers;
6. new software with phantom algorithms added to voting machines;
7. Trump tells Mickey Johnson he has a secret plan that will help him get elected;
8. Musk has made statements that if Trump loses, "he is fu**k'd";
9. Musk's media center is based in Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania and some eastern states show ballots only voting for Trump and no other candidate down ballot;
10. Trump beats statistical odds and wins election.Most statisticians will agree 100% with me he should not have won;
These are the same people, mind you, who consider it an outrageous obscenity if the cap to a childproof gasoline container takes them two seconds to remove.
I really wish people would stop saying that Republicans want to starve kids to pay for tax cuts for billionaires. Poverty isn't a consequence of their schemes, it's the fucking point of them. See, the power of even a billionaire is limited if people can afford to say no. Their perfect world is a handful of billionaires, and everybody else so desperately poor that they'll do ANYTHING to survive.
This post kinda highlights that. Cutting eligibility for WIC by requiring separate applications won't actually save any money. Any "savings" will be eaten up by added administrative costs. Throwing people off the program is the only goal here.
Doubly so since WIC is a fairly cheap program and even total elimination wouldn't pay for much of a tax cut. And of course Republicans have already said that they'll pass those tax cuts regardless of whether or not they're paid for.
Don't let them frame the conversations, Wonkette. This ain't about saving money for tax cuts. It's about deliberately creating poverty so the billionaires can have their serfs. It always has been.
// Besides, just think of the savings to taxpayers, at least until many of those expendable children reach school age and are less able to learn, putting them on the fast track to dropping out, unemployment, and crime. Maybe assigning more cops in the schools would move the process along.
//
Now, now -- you're neglecting the *huge* future profits for the for-profit prison industry, not to mention all the mostly-free labor for the states that use incarceration as a means of legal slavery.
It's been a very long time since any "conservative" cared about hungry children. Although, I imagine they'd be happy to open up "orphanages," where children were fed, and put to work by the age of 5 at whatever manual labor they could manage. Those who don't work, don't eat - says Republican Jesus, without any additional information.
The mere millionaires or even multi-millionaires among us need to know they are far more likely to slip through the cracks and need assistance than they are of breaking into the ranks of the billionaires. Since the only way they ever see the light is when something affects them personally, well, I can't wait to meet them down here.
Well they're no longer fetuses, so they don't really matter anymore, do they?
Make America Romania Again
There is one way they will meet, but it involves a guillotine.
just like jesus commanded....
Poor childhood nutrition (caused by poverty) has been shown to factor heavily in the backgrounds of adult sociopaths.
Maybe this is the GOP's loooooong game: engineering a population just like themselves.
"Maybe Keanu could save the program by doing PSAs as John WIC."
As much as people yell about "messaging" ... this actually doesn't feel to me like the most insane idea I've ever heard
Or even that we've heard this year so far
Just saying
Liam Neeson would probably be better.
You're assuming he would do it
I'm not sure he would
People who blurt racist things just because they believe they're rich enough to do so without pushback generally don't care if little kids of color end up starving
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-47117177
Mapes Jr had severe GERD and a corn allergy as an infant. The only formula they could tolerate was Ready-Made Similac Alimentum, which cost $10/L and we went through a liter a day.
Without WIC: $280 - $310 a month
Our pediatrician wrote a prescription for the formula and with that on file, WIC covered 26 liters every month.
With WIC: $20 - $50 a month
WIC allowed me to feed my baby and still have money to feed myself. Now we depend on SNAP.
People who have never experienced the shame and embarrassment that comes from quietly asking the clerk to put back items so you can actually pay for the rest don’t need tax cuts. It is utterly fucking enraging that a man whose personal fortune could end Food Insecurity for everyone on the planet would rather us die and decrease the surplus population.
Most of you know that I work in an FQHC (federally qualified health center) in The South Bronx. All of my clients are HIV positive adults. Apart from the tiny number of undocumented people whose meds are paid for by ADAP (AIDS Drug Assistance Program), they're all on Medicaid and all get SNAP benefits. No small number of them are functionally illiterate, and applying or re-applying for ANYTHING is beyond their ability to handle by themselves, with a few notable exceptions. People are going to STARVE and people are going to DIE and Republicans are going to congratulate themselves on a job well done. I'm job hunting, in part because my boss (not my supervisor, who is a gem) is a gaslighting asshole of the first order, but also because once federal funds for FQHCs are cut to the bone, there won't be jobs for me or others in my department. I grieve for this country.
Thanks for being there for them. It's horrible andheartbreaking at times. I know. I've been there for a childhood friend dying in the 90's. I was there daily for a year and a half....I really should hate Reagan and his ilk more than I do.
Is the United States fast becoming the land of the racists and the greedy? is this just a societal phase before we become a truly democratic country?
Hasn't History shown us the rise and fall of these kinds of civilizations to wake the populace up and say, "enough of this!" rather than saying that everyone is equal under the law but no one really believes it??
"Is the United States fast becoming the land of the racists and the greedy? "
Oh, son
"BECOMING"???
Your verbs need about a 400-year shift to the back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX4i5eiX4FU&t=1s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHG0Aqf6Je8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euMPJvnLbek
Don’t patronize me sonny. you could well be one of my 8 grandkids…..or my 3 great grandkids….
"Republicans are again considering letting children in low-income families go hungry so that billionaires can profit"
This should come as no surprise to anyone. The RINOs know which side the bread is buttered on. Low-income families can do nothing more for the asshats in the New GOP other than waste a vote on them; OTOH, the billionaire class can fund their every wet dream. It doesn't take a stable genius to realize who will get the attention -- Big Biz must not be hindered in attempts to score obscene profits to keep those in the C-Suites and major stockholders happy.
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"You meet the income requirements for either of those, and you can sign up for WIC, because the income rules are roughly the same. Saves families headaches, and saves the federal government the cost and processing hassle of doing redundant paperwork.
But Republicans want to save some money for billionaires by tightening eligibility for SNAP and Medicaid, and that would mean fewer families could use the shortcut for WIC."
The hypocrisy of the RINOs knows no bounds. Elmo the Man-child and DOGE are looking for ways to cut the budget, so eliminate social safety nets while unnecessarily increasing the amount of bureaucratic paperwork by duplicating forms that serve the same purpose; now that is sound, efficient use of gubmint resources. (Of course, the increase in bureaucratic spending won't come close to the amount saved by slashing social safety nets, so it will still be a net positive.)
-----
"That’s the idea, of course, because Republicans are scum who like throwing up arbitrary barriers to poor people getting help even when they’re eligible for it."
Also to be expected. Being poor is for losers and suckers; if the poor were really concerned about their financial situation they would pull themselves up by their bootstraps and go find a job that will pay enough to improve their lot in life. If they're not willing to do that, then why should the taxpayers continue to foot the bill for them to continue suckling on the country's teat?
-----
"Given that 11.6% of SNAP recipients are preschool-aged children, this could mean that at least 359,600 infants and young children would lose their automatic WIC eligibility."
So what if it means the gubmint can cut up to $115 billion in unnecessary expenses (like feed the children and infants of the poor and working poor)?
"In fiscal year 2023, the federal government spent about $115 billion on SNAP, including pandemic-related SNAP benefits (but excluding pandemic-related school meal benefits known as Pandemic-EBT) and other directly related food assistance programs." https://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/the-supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-snap
If these people can't afford to feed their children they had no right to have them in the first place!
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"Republicans always insist that big tax cuts help everyone, even though the reality is that they mostly help the already very wealthy become more obscenely wealthy."
This is the "Trickle Down Economy" that St Ronnie proved was such a very successful boost to the economy, yes? Three jeers for billionaire largesse.
-----
"The great part is that the people who write the changes into law, and the people who benefit, won’t ever meet the people who get hurt"
The 2025 version of the Morlocks (the moneyed elite) and the Eloi (the rest of us).
fnord
During the Civil Rights problem in the 1950's, Black Americans protested by not using public transportation and walking instead, causing a dent on city budgets. Perhaps Americans need to re-visit this quiet protest by foregoing buying at big box companies and go local instead, or at least those proven to be open to social concerns (Costco).
We need to remind ourselves that corporations exist because the consumers allow it.
Our Congress must be getting tips from the private insurance companies who specialize in putting up barriers to healthcare. "You don't have to get rid of it, you just have to make it nearly impossible to access! Win, win."
A young woman who got on the teevees because she was an undecided voter comes to mind. I think she was in Michigan. Anywho, she couldn't make up her mind because she needed more details. Specifically, about the child tax credit. Exactly how much money will she receive, she wanted to know.
Well now she can apply those brilliant critical thinking skills to figuring out how to pay for food for her fucking kids. Whoops.
This is exactly what a Pennsylvania county is doing to a company who wishes to inspect their Nov4 presidential voting process under the Freedom of Information law. They told the company they have to go through a process of asking for other information, to which they then responded that "It doesn't exist."
What are they hiding in Pennsylvania?
https://substack.com/@whistleblowernyc/note/p-153003086?r=1xs62j&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
A couple of million votes for Kamala Harris?
for the past 8 years or so, there is a narrative that is easy to follow:
1. in 2020, voting machine software was copied by Trump operatives in Colorado and Georgia for which people went to jail;
2. most likely handed to Musk for his IT engineers to add some fanthom algorithm;
3. Musk made a $300M contribution to Trump's campaign;
4. Starlink has gov't contracts to update voting machines;
5. Trump praises Musk in various stops about what a genius he is with computers;
6. new software with phantom algorithms added to voting machines;
7. Trump tells Mickey Johnson he has a secret plan that will help him get elected;
8. Musk has made statements that if Trump loses, "he is fu**k'd";
9. Musk's media center is based in Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania and some eastern states show ballots only voting for Trump and no other candidate down ballot;
10. Trump beats statistical odds and wins election.Most statisticians will agree 100% with me he should not have won;
you do the math
Any voting machine that can have it's firmware updated over a wireless network is a fraud machine.
yet they exist.
“𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺’𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘭𝘢𝘻𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘳𝘢 𝘱𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬, 𝘮𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘬𝘪𝘥𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯’𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘶𝘯𝘨𝘳𝘺, 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺?”
These are the same people, mind you, who consider it an outrageous obscenity if the cap to a childproof gasoline container takes them two seconds to remove.