Trump Meddles With SNAP!

Trump fucks with the working poor and middle class.

Prepare for a government shutdown folks.

Defying Congress, the imbecile decides to issue an executive order forcing "able-body" people to find a job or lose their food stamps. So if you're struggling to find a job in this economy, I guess you won't feed your family.

Listening to his best friend, that annoying conservative agitator Sean "Softball" Hannity, Donald J. Trump decides to impose regulations on the working class and underclass.

Expect this to be an issue in the court.

Nearly 800,000 people could lose their access to food stamps.

SNAP, or the Supplemental Food Assistance Program, has been providing food to low-income Americans since the 1960s. The rules require so-called "able-bodied adults without dependents," known in government jargon as "ABAWDs," to have jobs if they receive food stamps for more than three months in a three-year period. (Another, easier way to describe these Americans would be "childless adults.") However, USDA regulations currently let individual states waive the work requirement in areas with unemployment rates at least 20% higher than the national rate.

The USDA's proposal, if it is implemented after a 60-day comment period, would tighten those restrictions, requiring that the local unemployment rise above 7% before the 20% provision is triggered. Of the roughly 2.8 million ABAWDs in the US, about 755,000 are not currently working and under the new rule would lose their SNAP benefits, which come to approximately $5 a day.

What Trump may not realize is that ABAWDs tend to match the profile of his core constituency. According to data from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a Washington DC think tank, 55% of low-income ABAWDs are male, and 48% are white. (Given the millions of women with children who are also in the program, men make up only 38% of adult SNAP participants overall.)

With the cost of food rising, the cost of fuel, rent, and a stagnant pay, a family of four cannot (and will not) survive on $50 worth of food stamps.

Most working class Americans are on food stamps. Regardless of what a conservative says, being on food stamps isn't a problem. It's a need that prevents the possibility of chaos.

Sonny Purdue applauds the idea of stripping Americans off the safety net. The no neck Agriculture Secretary decided to back Trump's executive order on food stamps.

Say if we're in the wake of a disaster like a flood. You think people are going to wait on the federal government to deliver resources?

Hell no.

We're going to loot a store and grab every necessary available to survive.

It's this thing that helps the middle class and lower class. The safety net prevents Americans from rioting and/or looting. The safety net stops people from shoplifting from stores to feed their families.

The safety net prevents a person from robbing you of your luxuries.

The safety net is only 10% of the federal spending. The way some people put it, 50% of the federal spending goes to food stamps and welfare. Some people believe that the safety net is making people lazy. All this stuff I've heard came from people who think that it will never happen to them. They get their arousal over a person using an EBT card to pay for name brand items or expensive food.

Americans are either too dumb to realize that 20 million people haven't eaten a decent meal. Of course, children suffer.

With the rising food and gas prices, people are turning to food stamps, food banks and government assistance to keep themselves from landing in the homeless shelter.

Without a safety net, these people will rob and kill those who have the luxuries of having food in the refrigerator or in the pantry. They would steal fuel, water, bread and meat to keep feeding their families. And yet, these Republicans and their conservative allies are thinking the poor are the reasons for the economic recession. Perhaps those who complain about the poor, should walk a day in that person's shoes!