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Anonymous wrote:Once SNAP ceases every vote on the CR that Democrats scuttle will be an overt act to hurt underprivileged, hungry children.

Remember. The GOP can pass the CR whenever it wants.

And since Trump ignores congressional appropriations why bother passing any bill?

I was unaware there were 60 Republican senators.

There are more than 50. The GOP can end the filibuster. It’s already neutered the House and the Constitution.

Or - - - Democrats could vote to not deprive hungry underprivileged Americans.

Democrats keep voting for a shutdown. That is a fact.

What votes have there been in the House in the past three weeks and when will the next vote happen in the House?

The house passed the CR. It’s in the hands of the Senate. Democrats are voting against opening the opening the government. Am I wrong?

When the House passes legislation that can't pass in the Senate, they have failed at their jobs.

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Anonymous wrote:It's amazing how we are supposed to think the real problem with America is that we should all be happy with that baked potato, and not the billionaires buying a bigger private jet, that villa in the south of France, and yet another yacht to make it more convenient when they want to jet off to Greece or wherever - and that they are doing it on our backs. Again, most of America's poor are in fact working.

It's sick that we are the richest nation on the planet yet we don't have universal healthcare like other wealthy nations, and that we still have people eating poorly and that we still have homeless veterans.

Yep

If you make $60,000 a year, guess how much of your taxes goes toward SNAP? $36 a year. That's it. Meanwhile, how much of your taxes goes to corporate subsidies? $700. Poor people aren't the problem. Greedy billionaires and corporate handouts are the problem.

Ah, the mysterious "corporate subsidies". Love to know what these are. Please be specific.

Don't be stupid

Did you see how many "captains of industry" were at Trump inauguration?

They know how this works even if you don't, chump

NP

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Anonymous wrote:It's amazing how we are supposed to think the real problem with America is that we should all be happy with that baked potato, and not the billionaires buying a bigger private jet, that villa in the south of France, and yet another yacht to make it more convenient when they want to jet off to Greece or wherever - and that they are doing it on our backs. Again, most of America's poor are in fact working.

It's sick that we are the richest nation on the planet yet we don't have universal healthcare like other wealthy nations, and that we still have people eating poorly and that we still have homeless veterans.

Yep

If you make $60,000 a year, guess how much of your taxes goes toward SNAP? $36 a year. That's it. Meanwhile, how much of your taxes goes to corporate subsidies? $700. Poor people aren't the problem. Greedy billionaires and corporate handouts are the problem.

Ah, the mysterious "corporate subsidies". Love to know what these are. Please be specific.

How can the dems vote for a clean CR when Trump has asserted that federal workers may not be paid during their furlough and others were fired?

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Anonymous wrote:Some facts that are hard to get around when you don’t have much money:

1). Fresh food doesn’t last as long as processed foods. A fruit bowl on the table would be great, but when that fruit goes bad before you can eat it, or sometimes you end up with fruit that just isn’t tasty to start (I had a hell of a time getting good peaches this summer) you turn to buying the cheap bag of family-size Cheetos that will last forever.

2). A parent with a very limited income often turns to food as treats for their kids. They can’t afford to buy them a new bike, they can’t afford the amusement park, but the half gallon of ice cream on sale they can do. Or they can manage a trip to McDonalds to celebrate a birthday.

There’s just so many factors that go into food choices.

So slice and freeze what you don’t use of the fruit and repurpose for something else. Or cook/bake something using the fruit. Homemade applesauce is pretty easy for example.

Limited freezer space. Why do you insist on acting like you have all the answers and people actually living this day to day just are too dumb to figure it out?

If freezer space is limited, then they must have food so what’s the problem?

Or they have a very small freezer. Or no freezer!

Jeez you are clueless

Other than college students, Americans overwhelmingly do have at least a regular sized refrigerator that includes a regular sized freezer. Even the ones on SNAP.

I won’t say people are dumb, but a lot of people are bad at planning, prefer convenience, and bad at saving for a rainy day. And we subsidize them and wonder why their numbers keep increasing. All it does is drive up costs for people who are just above them on the ladder, and making it harder for everyone.

I bet I have more money than you and I’d rather my tax money subsidize people with less than me, NOT people who have more.

Also, IF there is truth that numbers are going up it’s because the income gap has been widening.

Try to be a more curious person:

https://fortune.com/2025/08/13/growing-gap-between-higher-income-lower-income-rich-poor-americans-wages-spending/

https://tax.thomsonreuters.com/news/extending-trump-era-tax-cuts-would-worsen-income-inequality-analyst-says/

From his first term:
https://inequality.org/article/trump-income-inequality/

Republicans are wetting their pants that they now get to screw over hardworking Americans. They’ve been planning this forever. Everyone except wealthy white men (and their subservient wives) will suffer.

Ya’ll they’re fine with another gilded age. Yes, some of them will get locked up, but they’re gamblers willing to take that bet.

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Anonymous wrote:Some facts that are hard to get around when you don’t have much money:

1). Fresh food doesn’t last as long as processed foods. A fruit bowl on the table would be great, but when that fruit goes bad before you can eat it, or sometimes you end up with fruit that just isn’t tasty to start (I had a hell of a time getting good peaches this summer) you turn to buying the cheap bag of family-size Cheetos that will last forever.

2). A parent with a very limited income often turns to food as treats for their kids. They can’t afford to buy them a new bike, they can’t afford the amusement park, but the half gallon of ice cream on sale they can do. Or they can manage a trip to McDonalds to celebrate a birthday.

There’s just so many factors that go into food choices.

So slice and freeze what you don’t use of the fruit and repurpose for something else. Or cook/bake something using the fruit. Homemade applesauce is pretty easy for example.

Limited freezer space. Why do you insist on acting like you have all the answers and people actually living this day to day just are too dumb to figure it out?

If freezer space is limited, then they must have food so what’s the problem?

Or they have a very small freezer. Or no freezer!

Jeez you are clueless

Other than college students, Americans overwhelmingly do have at least a regular sized refrigerator that includes a regular sized freezer. Even the ones on SNAP.

I won’t say people are dumb, but a lot of people are bad at planning, prefer convenience, and bad at saving for a rainy day. And we subsidize them and wonder why their numbers keep increasing. All it does is drive up costs for people who are just above them on the ladder, and making it harder for everyone.

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Anonymous wrote:Once SNAP ceases every vote on the CR that Democrats scuttle will be an overt act to hurt underprivileged, hungry children.

Remember. The GOP can pass the CR whenever it wants.

And since Trump ignores congressional appropriations why bother passing any bill?

I was unaware there were 60 Republican senators.

There are more than 50. The GOP can end the filibuster. It’s already neutered the House and the Constitution.

Or - - - Democrats could vote to not deprive hungry underprivileged Americans.

Democrats keep voting for a shutdown. That is a fact.

What votes have there been in the House in the past three weeks and when will the next vote happen in the House?

The house passed the CR. It’s in the hands of the Senate. Democrats are voting against opening the opening the government. Am I wrong?

Thune and the Republican Senate could pass this within the hour if they wanted to by killing the filibuster. They won't, though, because they are cowards. The Republicans know how bad this is and they won't take responsibility for it. When it proves to be the absolute disaster it is, they want to be able to cry that it was bipartisan.

Yellow-bellied, lily-livered, spineless cowards to a one.

This. Rs made this bed with Trump. If they want to pass a CR that ends in mid-November they can pass the CR without Dem votes.

In the meantime, Donny is busy with his top priority (the ballroom) and can’t be bothered to use the contingency fund to feed millions of Americans.

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Anonymous wrote:Once SNAP ceases every vote on the CR that Democrats scuttle will be an overt act to hurt underprivileged, hungry children.

Remember. The GOP can pass the CR whenever it wants.

And since Trump ignores congressional appropriations why bother passing any bill?

I was unaware there were 60 Republican senators.

There are more than 50. The GOP can end the filibuster. It’s already neutered the House and the Constitution.

Or - - - Democrats could vote to not deprive hungry underprivileged Americans.

Democrats keep voting for a shutdown. That is a fact.

What votes have there been in the House in the past three weeks and when will the next vote happen in the House?

The house passed the CR. It’s in the hands of the Senate. Democrats are voting against opening the opening the government. Am I wrong?

Thune and the Republican Senate could pass this within the hour if they wanted to by killing the filibuster. They won't, though, because they are cowards. The Republicans know how bad this is and they won't take responsibility for it. When it proves to be the absolute disaster it is, they want to be able to cry that it was bipartisan.

Yellow-bellied, lily-livered, spineless cowards to a one.

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Anonymous wrote:Once SNAP ceases every vote on the CR that Democrats scuttle will be an overt act to hurt underprivileged, hungry children.

Remember. The GOP can pass the CR whenever it wants.

And since Trump ignores congressional appropriations why bother passing any bill?

I was unaware there were 60 Republican senators.

There are more than 50. The GOP can end the filibuster. It’s already neutered the House and the Constitution.

Or - - - Democrats could vote to not deprive hungry underprivileged Americans.

Democrats keep voting for a shutdown. That is a fact.

What votes have there been in the House in the past three weeks and when will the next vote happen in the House?

The house passed the CR. It’s in the hands of the Senate. Democrats are voting against opening the opening the government. Am I wrong?

The CR is not a budget. It's not a clean CR.

The Republicans have had all yesr to come up with an actual, passable budget bill. That's what the last CR was for.

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Anonymous wrote:Once SNAP ceases every vote on the CR that Democrats scuttle will be an overt act to hurt underprivileged, hungry children.

Remember. The GOP can pass the CR whenever it wants.

And since Trump ignores congressional appropriations why bother passing any bill?

I was unaware there were 60 Republican senators.

There are more than 50. The GOP can end the filibuster. It’s already neutered the House and the Constitution.

Or - - - Democrats could vote to not deprive hungry underprivileged Americans.

Democrats keep voting for a shutdown. That is a fact.

What votes have there been in the House in the past three weeks and when will the next vote happen in the House?

The house passed the CR. It’s in the hands of the Senate. Democrats are voting against opening the opening the government. Am I wrong?

What else can they do other than go after the health insurance companies and force them to lower their rates, as if that’s even possible. This is basically forcing an average citizen with let’s say a $60k-$80k salary to make monthly payments on a $3 million home they obviously can’t afford when all they should have been offered was a $800/month condo at most; and then being shocked when the person files bankruptcy a month later and moves out. If they don’t have any family support or a successful GoFundMe, they’ll pitch a tent under a bridge and then get a ticket for sleeping there. (Because why oh why are you under a bridge in a tent, asks the officer.)

Average Americans are not going to be able to pay premiums that in many cases will be higher than their rent or mortgage. It’s a set up for failure.

What else can the Democrats do when the Republicans are silently watching their master offer billions to Argentina.

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Anonymous wrote:Once SNAP ceases every vote on the CR that Democrats scuttle will be an overt act to hurt underprivileged, hungry children.

Remember. The GOP can pass the CR whenever it wants.

And since Trump ignores congressional appropriations why bother passing any bill?

I was unaware there were 60 Republican senators.

There are more than 50. The GOP can end the filibuster. It’s already neutered the House and the Constitution.

Or - - - Democrats could vote to not deprive hungry underprivileged Americans.

Democrats keep voting for a shutdown. That is a fact.

What votes have there been in the House in the past three weeks and when will the next vote happen in the House?

The house passed the CR. It’s in the hands of the Senate. Democrats are voting against opening the opening the government. Am I wrong?

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Anonymous wrote:It's amazing how we are supposed to think the real problem with America is that we should all be happy with that baked potato, and not the billionaires buying a bigger private jet, that villa in the south of France, and yet another yacht to make it more convenient when they want to jet off to Greece or wherever - and that they are doing it on our backs. Again, most of America's poor are in fact working.

It's sick that we are the richest nation on the planet yet we don't have universal healthcare like other wealthy nations, and that we still have people eating poorly and that we still have homeless veterans.

Yep

If you make $60,000 a year, guess how much of your taxes goes toward SNAP? $36 a year. That's it. Meanwhile, how much of your taxes goes to corporate subsidies? $700. Poor people aren't the problem. Greedy billionaires and corporate handouts are the problem.

+100. DP, can you provide the source for your statistics. I don’t doubt then I just want to cite them. It’s crazy in this country that we let anyone go hungry. Actually, it’s Norman crazy it’s immoral.

Anonymous wrote:It's amazing how we are supposed to think the real problem with America is that we should all be happy with that baked potato, and not the billionaires buying a bigger private jet, that villa in the south of France, and yet another yacht to make it more convenient when they want to jet off to Greece or wherever - and that they are doing it on our backs. Again, most of America's poor are in fact working.

It's sick that we are the richest nation on the planet yet we don't have universal healthcare like other wealthy nations, and that we still have people eating poorly and that we still have homeless veterans.

Yep

If you make $60,000 a year, guess how much of your taxes goes toward SNAP? $36 a year. That's it. Meanwhile, how much of your taxes goes to corporate subsidies? $700. Poor people aren't the problem. Greedy billionaires and corporate handouts are the problem.

Anonymous wrote:Once SNAP ceases every vote on the CR that Democrats scuttle will be an overt act to hurt underprivileged, hungry children.

Stop with your hypocritical concern trolling. You Republicans have been trying to kill SNAP for the last 40 years.