More Than 500,000 Adults Will Lose SNAP Benefits in 2016 as Waivers Expire

[Jackie Wilson Said]

http://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/more-than-500000-adults-will-lose-snap-benefits-in-2016-as-waivers-expire

It will be over one million, per the person I listened to.



Guess who introduced the monstrosity known as

The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Responsibility_and_Work_Opportunity_Act

Introduced in the House as H.R. 3734 by John Kasich (R-OH) on June 27, 1996

Moderate? Nope.

I know who signed it, and at the end of the day, Americans will starve and I dont think the GOP cares.

Just the name of that bill should make you very angry if you are a patriotic American. Men representing the richest people in the world going out of their way to judge poor people and ultimately starve them.



And I didn't bring this up to trash Hillary, for Christ sake. Yes, I wanna know where she stands on this, but that isn't why I brought it up. I know where the GOP stands, and I can guess Bernie is against cutting these people off.

[saturnsring]

1. . President Bill Clinton signed PRWORA into law on August 22, 1996, fulfilling his 1992 campaign pro

. President Bill Clinton signed PRWORA into law on August 22, 1996, fulfilling his 1992 campaign promise to "end welfare as we have come to know it".[1]

President Clinton found the legislation more conservative than he would have preferred; however, having vetoed two earlier welfare proposals from the Republican-majority Congress, it was considered a political risk to veto a third bill during a campaign season with welfare reform as a central theme

[Jackie Wilson Said]

2. And I will never forget that he did that, none of us should.

I do wonder if he were allowed to write the bill himself, if it would have been less destructive.


We will never know, what we know is people are going to be starved now, so I would like to hear what the candidates have to say.

[saturnsring]

4. President Clinton found the legislation more conservative than he would have preferred; however, hav

President Clinton found the legislation more conservative than he would have preferred; however, having vetoed two earlier welfare proposals from the Republican-majority Congress, it was considered a political risk to veto a third bill during a campaign season with welfare reform as a central theme

[Jackie Wilson Said]

5. So I was right in my thought that he didnt want this, at least not in that form.

He was wrong regardless.

This is not unlike what we face now, if Hillary is the nominee.

Do you want the person who will literally starve poor people, the conservative, or do you want a moderate who wont, the democrat?

[saturnsring]

6. hillary is not bill and this is not 1996

[Jackie Wilson Said]

7. I wasnt even going there, I was doing this to point out how heartless

you know who is.

I am curious to know what the candidates think about this though.

[CBGLuthier]

3. Bill Clinton, best republican in democrat's clothing in history.

All hail the centrist bastard who fucked America almost as much as Reagan.

[SammyWinstonJack]

8. How much more damage from another Clinton administration can we expect....

[Doctor_J]

9. Hillary is glad they won't be deadbeats any more

Too bad the Poor People Should Not Starve lobby can't pony up a quarter million for a motivational speech.

[Jackie Wilson Said]

10. Someday the poor and lower middle class will have had enough, and they will act.

If they would just vote, that would really accomplish something.