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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][twitter][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What I love is how the Republicans proclaim to be Christian but cut food aid to the poor. Is that what Jesus would do?[/quote]

Jesus would teach a person who is able to support themselves not to be on welfare their whole lives, unlike the intergenerational welfare we have now.

You are not "owed".[/quote]

I believe his primary commandment was to love. [/quote]

Not making people who are perfectly capable of independence, dependent on others is love. Tough love, but love nonetheless. [/quote]

It's a safety net. Most people are on it temporarily. This idea that the program is full of people who do not need it is not based in reality. Making people in need out to be lazy moochers isn't love, tough or otherwise. [/quote]

Not really.  Many, many are on it for years.  They are a lot of exemptions that pretty much make it possible for anyone to be on it for years. If you have children under 14 (and keep having children) or take care of anyone, you could be on it for years. You can get waivers if you meet the 20 hr per week work requirement and stay on it for years as well.  [/quote]

Call your senators. Tell them to nuke the filibuster and then make the laws even stricter. No more soda or candy or junk. No more waivers. Stricter work requirements for people with kids. It can be done with 51 votes. [/quote]

You don’t even have to actually work 20 hrs.  It’s 20 hrs OR the hours equivalent to total the monetary amount of 20 hrs at minimum wage.  But even then, there are a lot of waivers people can get to not have any work requirement at all. It isn’t difficult at all to get these waivers.  [/quote]

Most people on food stamps actually work. Those who don't usually have disabled kids, are disabled themselves or are veterans. The question we should be asking is why minimum wage is still $7.25 an hour. [/quote]

Because democrats allowed a huge surplus of low wage workers to happen

Stop the overwhelming immigration and wages will rise

But the elites want more low wage workers to reduce wages to stop inflation [/quote]

There was a study that found over 13% of Walmart employees in Ohio were on food stamps. In addition to Walmart, there are also other big employers like fast food chains, Dollar Tree and others that pay a lot of their employees minimum wage and that has absolutely nothing to do with "flooded with illegals" - it has everything to do with corporate greed, bad business models that depend on exploiting workers and so on.

If we got rid of every illegal alien there would still be companies refusing to pay a living wage.[/quote]

DP.

You need to take your analysis one step further.

Why do companies refuse to pay a living wage? Because if they do, foreign or domestic competitors will undercut their prices and they’ll go out of business.

Most consumers are incredibly price-sensitive; all else being equal, not many will pay higher price to support higher wages.[/quote]

More prison labor coming to a town near you . “Would you like fries with that shake?” [/quote]

Everyone who shops at Walmart, Temu, Amazon, eats fast-casual, etc. is part of the problem.

Interesting choice: pay higher wages but increase unemployment and cost of goods? Or pay lower wages with lower unemployment and cheaper goods?

Florida will be an interesting bellwether for this: min wage was raised to $15 via referendum. [/quote]Removing illegal immigrants from the labor pool will put pressure on wages, so this might not be an issue.[/quote]

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When people are poor and hungry, they will work for cheap. That's really what you aren't saying and a more probable outcome than what you said.[/quote]The minimum wage law is still there.[/quote]

Laws seem to be easily ignored these days

It's like people know there will be no enforcement.

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