DES MOINES – Iowa Republicans just want everyone working and not freeloading, and in a cruel, deliberate stroke against the hungry and poor amongst us, advanced a bill to cut their access to fresh meats grains, beans, cheese, and more.
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is federally-funded program to make sure poor people and kids can eat. The state covers half the cost to administer the federal funds. For whatever reason, these people don’t have the means to eat right. Maybe they are on drugs, lazy, mentally or physically incapable of work, too many kids, or game the system. SNAP fills their bellies. They do have to apply and get approved to be in the program. According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 286,100 Iowa residents, or 9% of the state population (1 in 11) were assisted by SNAP in 2021.
However, Iowa Republicans are framing the issue as a way to slash the state budget – which has billions in surplus. Some think it’s a way to push people into the workforce – there are plenty of “now hiring” signs all over the Hawkeye state. Some say the jobs don’t fill up because, in general, these jobs suck. Others say it’s because folks are lazy. Why should the neighborhood Burger King close at 8 PM due to staff shortages? If you want a Whopper at 9 o’clock, by God, you are entitled to it. Some slovenly teen should be in the kitchen to slather mayor on the buns, slap that meat between them, place that bad boy in a box and shoot it out the drive-up window with a huge smile on his face as he collects $8.25 an hour – and not a penny more, because you like your Whopper as cheap as possible.
Up to 300,000 Iowans are facing food insecurity, and one-third of that number are children, Democrats say. Some tell them to look to our glorious past, before pesky labor unions and child labor laws. “America was once great, and it should be, again,” these pious Christians scream into their TV as Tucker Carlson’s words of wisdom infiltrate their souls, brushing Chips Ahoy crumbs off their XXL t-shirts. As NIT reported last November, kids are working in factories in Nebraska and Minnesota, so why not in Iowa? Everyone should be doing their fair share so America’s capitalist system hums along at full capacity.
Read about the Republican plan in their bill, here.
My daughter got left with 4 children to raise alone and worked what she could get applying for better jobs as she could, with only some stamps and help with daycare and now she is doing it all on her own making more than I ever did as a nurse! A lot of people do need to get off there rears and take a job stick with it to establish a good work history! That’s what helps you get the good jobs! I understand there are people that are an exception to this like having a special needs child but the again I worked in that area and most the parents worked and there were waivers and such to help with in home nursing care but I also saw the one that did not and they sold there card benefits, did drugs didn’t work got all the help they could from the government. So yes it needs reformed. Read it for yourself! Nobody gets a free ride not me my children or my grandchildren
You do realize that many of those in home programs have a 2 year plus waiting list or more.
What monster take food from babies?
One that can spell!
That wouldn’t be you then.
Rich POS’s who’ve never had to work two jobs just to stay alive, literally stealing food right out of the mouths on babies. These scumbags need to spend a day living like one of the many, many Iowans in two-parent families, with four minimum-wage jobs between the parents, who still have to go to the food pantry every day just to keep a kid or two from starving.
But it’s not just the “Rich POS’s” as you call them, it’s the people that just flat out are lazy or drugged up that don’t work that are the problem and then the hard working force has to pay for their dumb asses. Make them all work or they don’t get any assistance, then watch how fast the lazy asses get out and work.
I really doubt any of you commenting “make them get a job” have never read the policy for snap benefits. It already states they have to work if able to or can only get benefits for a short period of time unless you meet specific qualifications. This will only hurt the poor and cause more crime as if we do not have enough crime already.
You seem to have direct knowledge of people defrauding us through SNAP. Here is the number to call to report it unless, of course, you don’t have any real proof, just what you have heard or suspect is happening. Call them. Let’s get rid of the deadbeats.
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