Buried Provision In House GOP Bill Would Cut Off Food Stamps To Entire Family If One Member Strikes

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Buried Provision In House GOP Bill Would Cut Off Food Stamps To Entire Families If One Member Strikes

Think Progress
By Zaid Jilani on Mar 23rd, 2011 at 8:00 pm

All around the country, right-wing legislators are asking middle class Americans to pay for budget deficits caused mainly by a recession caused by Wall Street; they are attacking workers’ collective bargaining rights, which has provoked a huge Main Street Movement to fight back.

Now, a group of House Republicans is launching a new stealth attack against union workers. GOP Reps. Jim Jordan (OH), Tim Scott (SC), Scott Garrett (NJ), Dan Burton (IN), and Louie Gohmert (TX) have introduced H.R. 1135, which states that it is designed to “provide information on total spending on means-tested welfare programs, to provide additional work requirements, and to provide an overall spending limit on means-tested welfare programs.”

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[Poll_Blind]

1. Dude. No words.

PB

[tabatha]

2. Despotic nation, here we come.

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. omg. n/t

[Scuba]

4. Criticize us outloud, or be related to someone who does, and you will be punished. ...

...Now go on back to hating your neighbors.

[and-justice-for-all]

5. Fascist fucking puke fucks!! nt

[csziggy]

6. So those overpaid union workers are also collecting socialist food stamps?

How is this possible on their ultra high wages? :sarcasm:

Republicans need to get a grip on reality. If workers are making so little as to be eligible for food stamps, they cannot possibly be overpaid as claimed.

[librechik]

7. i think the idea is that once you go on strike, then you need food stamps

cuz you aren't getting paid--and the GOP wants you to chill and keep working and not go on strike, cuz your family will starve

[Newest Reality]

8. Just a note on that ...

Republicans are about creating their own reality and trying to force us to live in it, not about getting any kind of grip on some form of consensus reality.

I think that might be an important nuance in understanding our vicious and relentless opponents, especially the one's with teabag hanging from their ideologies.

[Oasis_]

9. Ok

End the provision allowing food stamps for striking workers... BUT, the company they're striking against should lose, in the interim, all subsidies (Federal, State and Local) all tax abatements and any other form of outside assistance not completely derived from direct company business.

But I guess that would be leveling the playing field...

Oasis

[RufusTFirefly]

10. This is some cold-blooded shit

How these people can even look at themselves in the mirror just boggles my mind.

[Blue Owl]

11. WTF GOP POS

:wtf:

[Rex]

12. Fuck the fascist fuckers, may they rot in hell for all eternity.

Oh and have a nice day! :hi: