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Anonymous wrote:Lots of people are still working expecting to be paid later but that's only going to happen for so long before people have to start calling in sick to force the government to furlough them so they can work another job during the shutdown. What happens when social security call centers stop taking calls or the IRS or any number of other agencies stop functioning? Most American's can't work for months on end without pay.

https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1oo5hrl/excepted_going_to_run_out_of_money/

Call your Democrat Senators and tell them to end the shutdown.

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Anonymous wrote:House Speaker Mike Johnson: "Anyone who's been made to suffer because of the health services you rely upon or the food & nutrition supplement for your family, anyone who is hurting, you have a home in the Republican party"

Little does he know, most already consider themselves Republicans and think they won't be affected.

He's threatening to starve people and let them die of sickness unless they vote Republican? Johnson is an absolute monster.

And he's not too bright, most SNAP recipients are white, and poor whites are more likely to already identify as Republicans.

More reporting confirms what people have been saying here.


SNAP recipients are white, they are citizens, and rural Americans rely more heavily on government assistance than urban Americans. In red states, SNAP beneficiaries are overwhelmingly white:

In West Virginia, 97.7 percent of SNAP recipients whose racial and ethnic identity was recorded are white; Indiana, 66 percent; Iowa 75.5 percent; Kentucky, 83.4 percent; Missouri, 67.1 percent; Montana, 76.6 percent; North Dakota, 66.9 percent; Ohio, 64.9; Oklahoma, 60.9 percent; Utah, 86.6 percent; and Wyoming, 78.8 percent.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/opinion/food-stamps-snap-shutdown.html

"neither Trump, Vought nor many other Republicans seem to recognize that it is no longer accurate to describe these programs as “Democrat programs.” Whether they will pay a political price for their ignorance is another question."

Anonymous wrote:Lots of people are still working expecting to be paid later but that's only going to happen for so long before people have to start calling in sick to force the government to furlough them so they can work another job during the shutdown. What happens when social security call centers stop taking calls or the IRS or any number of other agencies stop functioning? Most American's can't work for months on end without pay.

https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1oo5hrl/excepted_going_to_run_out_of_money/

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Anonymous wrote:Food Pantry lines and millions of dollars in theft at grocery stores

Even if you think every food stamp recipient (including kids and seniors) are just lazy, you (general you) don’t think this is going to have far reaching repercussions for the rest of society?

Absolutely has repercussions for all of society.

They have that society in India, and other places. Where the income disparity is so vast, and you are so desensitized against the presence of abject poverty that you step over dying kids, whether starving or injured is irrelevant, without a second thought.

I would hate living in such a society.

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Anonymous wrote:Food Pantry lines and millions of dollars in theft at grocery stores

Even if you think every food stamp recipient (including kids and seniors) are just lazy, you (general you) don’t think this is going to have far reaching repercussions for the rest of society?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:House Speaker Mike Johnson: "Anyone who's been made to suffer because of the health services you rely upon or the food & nutrition supplement for your family, anyone who is hurting, you have a home in the Republican party"

Little does he know, most already consider themselves Republicans and think they won't be affected.

He's threatening to starve people and let them die of sickness unless they vote Republican? Johnson is an absolute monster.

And he's not too bright, most SNAP recipients are white, and poor whites are more likely to already identify as Republicans.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:House Speaker Mike Johnson: "Anyone who's been made to suffer because of the health services you rely upon or the food & nutrition supplement for your family, anyone who is hurting, you have a home in the Republican party"

Little does he know, most already consider themselves Republicans and think they won't be affected.

He's threatening to starve people and let them die of sickness unless they vote Republican? Johnson is an absolute monster.

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Anonymous wrote:We also need to stop incentivizing people to have additional children they can’t afford. Every human interest story I read that is designed to tug at my heart strings just exasperates me more. All these unemployed/underemployed parents with too many mouths to feed! “How on earth am I supposed to feed my 9 children on my PT McDonalds salary??” The fact that these people agree to be interviewed proves they accept zero responsibility for their current plight.

Oooh, I have some ideas...

Provide sex education in schools
Provide contraceptives
Make abortion save and legal.

Many generational welfare recipients actually want to have kids, we all know why.
Many poor people don’t have the executive function to use contraceptives unless they are like shipped to their home address and administered on the spot. If something requires the smallest effort it’s not done. I actually think this is key to poverty (besides social issues), poor executive function.
Lastly, many view abortion as a sin so it doesn’t help either

Anonymous wrote:House Speaker Mike Johnson: "Anyone who's been made to suffer because of the health services you rely upon or the food & nutrition supplement for your family, anyone who is hurting, you have a home in the Republican party"

Little does he know, most already consider themselves Republicans and think they won't be affected.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are MAGA always so concerned with the worthiness of poor people who receive government benefits but not corporations, wealthy farmers and billionaires? Is it because they imagine all recipients have black or brown skin?

This. Look at all of the racist claptrap on this thread despite the facts: the largest group of recipients is white; 90% are native born citizens; 2/3 are on it for less than 2 years

That’s just not true. Less than 10% of recipients are White.

Why are you lying about something so easily refuted? Do you assume that everyone is as stupid as you are?

https://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/resource-files/snap-FY23-Characteristics-Report.pdf

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Anonymous wrote:Why are MAGA always so concerned with the worthiness of poor people who receive government benefits but not corporations, wealthy farmers and billionaires? Is it because they imagine all recipients have black or brown skin?

This. Look at all of the racist claptrap on this thread despite the facts: the largest group of recipients is white; 90% are native born citizens; 2/3 are on it for less than 2 years

That’s just not true. Less than 10% of recipients are White.

What’s your MAGA source for that?

Because according to Pew, 40% of recipients are White (non-Hispanic) and 87% of recipients were born in the US.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/07/19/what-the-data-says-about-food-stamps-in-the-u-s/

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Anonymous wrote:It is astounding that people actually think anyone in the U.S. is starving. 44% of snap recipients are clinically obese. If you add in those that are “just” overweight, that is the vast majority They would just fine consuming half of the food they are currently consuming.

The rest of America isn’t far front that. Most people would be a lot healthier if they consumed far less food. We are country of chronic overeaters. 74% of total population is overweight. 1.6% are underweight (likely for
medical reasons and not for lack of ability to obtain food)

Fat people can starve, and still need to eat daily. Also obesity and malnourishment go hand in hand. Enough with the fat shaming. People need to eat no matter their size, and government imposed starvation is not a diet or a healthy solution to obesity.

Right, but they need to eat way less. Malnutrition and obesity don’t go hand in hand and there isn’t any strong evidence on this. Most of the ultra processed foods in the U.S. are fortified.