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(NPR)   The pandemic's over, which means it's time to start clawing money back from all those takers who got fat and lazy on pandemic-related assistance. No, not corporations. No, not farmers either. You, SNAP recipient. Your days of luxury are over   (npr.org) divider line
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Scorpitron is reduced to a thin red paste
2023-02-02 10:58:36 AM  
Tom Brady walked away with a cool million.
 
silo123j [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-02 1:18:48 PM  
I got SNAP EBT cards because the kids were in a free lunch school from the pandemic. They are sitting in the drawer. I should probably use them. Maybe I will buy stuff for the food pantry.
 
Weaver95
2023-02-02 3:51:25 PM  
On on top of gun violence and out of control cops, we're going to make poor people go hungry?

Hmm.
 
special20 [TotalFark]
2023-02-02 3:51:41 PM  
Silly poors, they don't even know what a crudité is.
 
moresugar
2023-02-02 3:52:32 PM  
Lucky duckies!
 
leeksfromchichis [TotalFark]
2023-02-02 3:53:00 PM  

Weaver95: On on top of gun violence and out of control cops, we're going to make poor people go hungry?

Hmm.


It's what Republican Jesus wants
 
Fart_Machine
2023-02-02 3:53:41 PM  
Clawing back SNAP benefits will impact farmers too so there's that.
 
UltimaCS
2023-02-02 3:54:47 PM  
"There's no way we're going to have France-like revolutions as long as poor people are still fed."
 
gadian
2023-02-02 3:54:53 PM  
Gosh, that $40 a month is just toooo much support for a family of four.  It actively disincentives working!!

/s
 
MattytheMouse
2023-02-02 3:54:59 PM  
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Walker [TotalFark]
2023-02-02 3:56:20 PM  
F*ck the poors, it's the American way.

/America sucks
 
UltimaCS
2023-02-02 3:56:44 PM  
That's because of a dramatic cost of living increase in Social Security, which went into effect last month.

Because inflation jumped 8.7%, SS matched it. You're just as poor as you've always been, but now SNAP says you're too rich.
 
dailygrinds
2023-02-02 3:56:45 PM  
I'm glad the pandemic is over. I guess I can go back to work now even though I'm still testing positive?
 
OtherLittleGuy [BareFark]
2023-02-02 3:57:01 PM  

Fart_Machine: Clawing back SNAP benefits will impact farmers too so there's that.


No, that money will go back to farmers.
 
anjin-san
2023-02-02 3:57:47 PM  
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jethroe
2023-02-02 3:58:03 PM  

Weaver95: On on top of gun violence and out of control cops, we're going to make poor people go hungry?

Hmm.


Relax, they got it handled.  Just in case those lazy sods decide to act out and get uppity.

FACT SHEET: President Biden's Safer America Plan | The White House (Fark won't allow me to hyperlink it)

www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/08/01/fact-sheet-president-bidens-safer-america-plan-2/#:~:text=The%20Plan%20will%3A,over%20the%20next%20five%20years.

Put 100,000 additional officers for effective accountable, community policing on our streets.The Safer America Plan will provide the investment necessary to recruit, train, support, and manage 100,000 additional police officers for effective, accountable community policing over the next five years...

These funds will be used to get officers out of their stations and squad cars and into the community, walking the beat on foot patrols that have been shown to enhance officer morale, improve community relations, and have a deterrent effect on crime.

They have it figured out.

I do like the underlined part (my underline).  First off, as if these hotdog-necked treat boys are going to "walking the beat on foot patrols" and secondly, how having cops on the streets "improves community relations".  Great stuff.
 
OtherLittleGuy [BareFark]
2023-02-02 3:58:06 PM  

MattytheMouse: [Fark user image image 425x639]


This would be over with a few Proud Boys, I mean Special Tactical Units.
 
aleister_greynight [TotalFark]
2023-02-02 3:59:58 PM  
The cruelty is the point.
 
MattytheMouse
2023-02-02 4:01:34 PM  

jethroe: Weaver95: On on top of gun violence and out of control cops, we're going to make poor people go hungry?

Hmm.

Relax, they got it handled.  Just in case those lazy sods decide to act out and get uppity.

FACT SHEET: President Biden's Safer America Plan | The White House (Fark won't allow me to hyperlink it)

www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/08/01/fact-sheet-president-bidens-safer-america-plan-2/#:~:text=The%20Plan%20will%3A,over%20the%20next%20five%20years.

Put 100,000 additional officers for effective accountable, community policing on our streets.The Safer America Plan will provide the investment necessary to recruit, train, support, and manage 100,000 additional police officers for effective, accountable community policing over the next five years...

These funds will be used to get officers out of their stations and squad cars and into the community, walking the beat on foot patrols that have been shown to enhance officer morale, improve community relations, and have a deterrent effect on crime.

They have it figured out.

I do like the underlined part (my underline).  First off, as if these hotdog-necked treat boys are going to "walking the beat on foot patrols" and secondly, how having cops on the streets "improves community relations".  Great stuff.


At this point, I think they're just dropping any pretense that cops are here to protect and serve anything but the upper class, and are any 'reform' is really just them making sure cops can go into full oppression mode in the event of any civil uprising.
 
Claude Ballse
2023-02-02 4:03:02 PM  
Say now, Republicans, do you know who else hated the poor, socialism, taking care of people, and especially the middle class, but sure as hell worshipped religion, violence, and dumb farmers?

cdn.britannica.comView Full Size
 
misanthropicsob [OhFark]
2023-02-02 4:03:15 PM  
Thanks, Democrats.
 
Cokezeroinacan
2023-02-02 4:04:12 PM  

misanthropicsob: Thanks, Democrats.


Don't you have some fascist talking points to post in another thread?
 
misanthropicsob [OhFark]
2023-02-02 4:04:20 PM  

aleister_greynight: The cruelty is the point.


It should be noted that the bills not extending SNAP benefits all passed under the Democrat-controlled Congress.
 
misanthropicsob [OhFark]
2023-02-02 4:06:07 PM  

Cokezeroinacan: misanthropicsob: Thanks, Democrats.

Don't you have some fascist talking points to post in another thread?


You really hate it when I'm pointing out the similarities of the Blue Capitalist Party to the Red Capitalist Party.
 
DarksideHalo
2023-02-02 4:06:13 PM  

MattytheMouse: [Fark user image image 425x639]


USA difficulty: Unions. Lots of us don't have that protection.
Plenty of states are employment at will, so they'll legally fire your ass for whatever reason.
 
born_yesterday [TotalFark]
2023-02-02 4:07:27 PM  

MattytheMouse: [Fark user image image 425x639]


Jokes on them when they get fired and lose their healthcare
 
iheartscotch
2023-02-02 4:08:26 PM  

MattytheMouse: [Fark user image image 425x639]


Difficulty: in the United States, protesters who are not obviously, cartoonishly, heavily armed are routinely targeted by police.
 
vilesithknight
2023-02-02 4:09:12 PM  
Growing up poor, making it to middle class, still having lots of poor friends, I've seen quite a number of people irl who used gov't assistance like snap, and I don't know of one person that doesn't desperately need it and still struggles despite having it. I'll never understand the myth about the "widespread fraud" that occurs or the narrative that every person on snap is just lazy and doesn't want to work or something. I'm sure there is fraud, that's just the world we live in. But I'd bet for like every 1000 people that use it there is like 1 case of fraud. It's like the mentality is, because someone might abuse it, or someone may have abused it in the past, we now need to punish all poor people. But I digress. As I write this I really there is no point in ranting, the world is just an ugly f'd up place for anyone not in the top 10% of income brackets. Humans suck. We are a cancer on this wonderful planet.
 
born_yesterday [TotalFark]
2023-02-02 4:09:13 PM  

jethroe: Weaver95: On on top of gun violence and out of control cops, we're going to make poor people go hungry?

Hmm.

Relax, they got it handled.  Just in case those lazy sods decide to act out and get uppity.

FACT SHEET: President Biden's Safer America Plan | The White House (Fark won't allow me to hyperlink it)

www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/08/01/fact-sheet-president-bidens-safer-america-plan-2/#:~:text=The%20Plan%20will%3A,over%20the%20next%20five%20years.

Put 100,000 additional officers for effective accountable, community policing on our streets.The Safer America Plan will provide the investment necessary to recruit, train, support, and manage 100,000 additional police officers for effective, accountable community policing over the next five years...

These funds will be used to get officers out of their stations and squad cars and into the community, walking the beat on foot patrols that have been shown to enhance officer morale, improve community relations, and have a deterrent effect on crime.

They have it figured out.

I do like the underlined part (my underline).  First off, as if these hotdog-necked treat boys are going to "walking the beat on foot patrols" and secondly, how having cops on the streets "improves community relations".  Great stuff.


The beatings will continue until the increased police presence is appreciated
 
Nullav
2023-02-02 4:09:13 PM  

MattytheMouse: jethroe: Weaver95: On on top of gun violence and out of control cops, we're going to make poor people go hungry?

Hmm.

Relax, they got it handled.  Just in case those lazy sods decide to act out and get uppity.

FACT SHEET: President Biden's Safer America Plan | The White House (Fark won't allow me to hyperlink it)

www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/08/01/fact-sheet-president-bidens-safer-america-plan-2/#:~:text=The%20Plan%20will%3A,over%20the%20next%20five%20years.

Put 100,000 additional officers for effective accountable, community policing on our streets.The Safer America Plan will provide the investment necessary to recruit, train, support, and manage 100,000 additional police officers for effective, accountable community policing over the next five years...

These funds will be used to get officers out of their stations and squad cars and into the community, walking the beat on foot patrols that have been shown to enhance officer morale, improve community relations, and have a deterrent effect on crime.

They have it figured out.

I do like the underlined part (my underline).  First off, as if these hotdog-necked treat boys are going to "walking the beat on foot patrols" and secondly, how having cops on the streets "improves community relations".  Great stuff.

At this point, I think they're just dropping any pretense that cops are here to protect and serve anything but the upper class, and are any 'reform' is really just them making sure cops can go into full oppression mode in the event of any civil uprising.


It was useless pretense anyway. The way we handle theft sums up the situation nicely already. Steal from the till? Criminal matter. Wage theft? Crickets. It's just the emperor finally calling it streaking.
 
Cokezeroinacan
2023-02-02 4:09:14 PM  

misanthropicsob: Cokezeroinacan: misanthropicsob: Thanks, Democrats.

Don't you have some fascist talking points to post in another thread?

You really hate it when I'm pointing out the similarities of the Blue Capitalist Party to the Red Capitalist Party.


I hate it when you use fascistic talking points, like when you posted the same link in a thread about Hunter Bidens laptop as Sanityisafulltimejob.

And I hate when you praise fans of Alex Jones, Glenn Greenwald, and other white supremacists.
 
CCNP
2023-02-02 4:09:45 PM  

UltimaCS: "There's no way we're going to have France-like revolutions as long as poor people are still fed."


Everybody thinks America is great simply because Americans spend less on food than any other country.
https://www.vox.com/2014/7/6/5874499/map-heres-how-much-every-country-spends-on-food
 
MattytheMouse
2023-02-02 4:10:06 PM  

iheartscotch: MattytheMouse: [Fark user image image 425x639]

Difficulty: in the United States, protesters who are not obviously, cartoonishly, heavily armed are routinely targeted by police.


I'm constantly astonished at how Americans are the most house broken people on the planet.
 
misanthropicsob [OhFark]
2023-02-02 4:10:33 PM  
Democrats' accomplishments in 2022:
- Extended Trump's Tax Cuts
- Cut SNAP
- Eliminated free school lunches
- Broke Rail Unions
 
Pincy
2023-02-02 4:10:40 PM  
This farking country just has its priorities so screwed up and backwards. All to keep the 0.01% happy.
 
jethroe
2023-02-02 4:13:09 PM  

MattytheMouse: jethroe: Weaver95: On on top of gun violence and out of control cops, we're going to make poor people go hungry?

Hmm.

Relax, they got it handled.  Just in case those lazy sods decide to act out and get uppity.

FACT SHEET: President Biden's Safer America Plan | The White House (Fark won't allow me to hyperlink it)

www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/08/01/fact-sheet-president-bidens-safer-america-plan-2/#:~:text=The%20Plan%20will%3A,over%20the%20next%20five%20years.

Put 100,000 additional officers for effective accountable, community policing on our streets.The Safer America Plan will provide the investment necessary to recruit, train, support, and manage 100,000 additional police officers for effective, accountable community policing over the next five years...

These funds will be used to get officers out of their stations and squad cars and into the community, walking the beat on foot patrols that have been shown to enhance officer morale, improve community relations, and have a deterrent effect on crime.

They have it figured out.

I do like the underlined part (my underline).  First off, as if these hotdog-necked treat boys are going to "walking the beat on foot patrols" and secondly, how having cops on the streets "improves community relations".  Great stuff.

At this point, I think they're just dropping any pretense that cops are here to protect and serve anything but the upper class, and are any 'reform' is really just them making sure cops can go into full oppression mode in the event of any civil uprising.



And I think they HAVE TO KNOW that the more they squeeze poor and middle-class workers (and they ARE squeezing - by raising the interest rates on us all (rather than taking money from billionaires)) they are causing more financial damage to the average Dick and Jane.  So they are preparing for the inevitable backlash.  If Americans can actually do that anymore.  But just in case they're gonna need more police --  er, security forces.

Warren Calls For 'Landing the Plane Not Crashing It' After Fed Hikes Rate Despite Cooling Inflation (commondreams.org) (Feb 01, 2023)

"With today's rate hike, the Fed is pushing us dangerously close to an unnecessary recession that would spell disaster for low-wage workers, workers of color, and vulnerable communities," the Groundwork Collaborative declared. "Workers and families shouldn't have to pay the price for inflation."..

...U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a major critic of the wave of increases, tweeted that "we want to bring down inflation, but that means landing the plane not crashing it. Chair Powell should pause his interest rate hikes and remember his dual mandate: Fight inflation without throwing millions out of work."
 
Bonzo_1116
2023-02-02 4:14:08 PM  

jethroe: Weaver95: On on top of gun violence and out of control cops, we're going to make poor people go hungry?

Hmm.

Relax, they got it handled.  Just in case those lazy sods decide to act out and get uppity.

FACT SHEET: President Biden's Safer America Plan | The White House (Fark won't allow me to hyperlink it)

www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/08/01/fact-sheet-president-bidens-safer-america-plan-2/#:~:text=The%20Plan%20will%3A,over%20the%20next%20five%20years.

Put 100,000 additional officers for effective accountable, community policing on our streets.The Safer America Plan will provide the investment necessary to recruit, train, support, and manage 100,000 additional police officers for effective, accountable community policing over the next five years...

These funds will be used to get officers out of their stations and squad cars and into the community, walking the beat on foot patrols that have been shown to enhance officer morale, improve community relations, and have a deterrent effect on crime.

They have it figured out.

I do like the underlined part (my underline).  First off, as if these hotdog-necked treat boys are going to "walking the beat on foot patrols" and secondly, how having cops on the streets "improves community relations".  Great stuff.


Patrolling in squad car separates the cop from the populace, and makes recognition of shared humanity much much harder.

But this is also a part of our impersonal car dependent culture that is turning our lives into a PvE experience with NPCs instead of the PvP it should be.
 
AmbassadorBooze
2023-02-02 4:14:17 PM  

Weaver95: On on top of gun violence and out of control cops, we're going to make poor people go hungry?

Hmm.


Gotta keep the world engine turning.  The peasants got used to food.  Now take it away and the peasants will have to turn the world engine faster so they can get the food they are used to.  Then slowly raise the price of food so the underchuds are desperate, and repete the cycle.
 
Evil Mackerel
2023-02-02 4:14:39 PM  

misanthropicsob: Cokezeroinacan: misanthropicsob: Thanks, Democrats.

Don't you have some fascist talking points to post in another thread?

You really hate it when I'm pointing out the similarities of the Blue Capitalist Party to the Red Capitalist Party.


Fark user imageView Full Size
 
farkitallletitend
2023-02-02 4:15:44 PM  

Walker: F*ck the poors, it's the American way.

/America sucks


Until you live in any country ending in Stan. We look pretty good comparatively. A very low bar but still.
 
leeksfromchichis [TotalFark]
2023-02-02 4:16:03 PM  

MattytheMouse: [Fark user image image 425x639]


Brexit!
 
misanthropicsob [OhFark]
2023-02-02 4:16:21 PM  

Evil Mackerel: misanthropicsob: Cokezeroinacan: misanthropicsob: Thanks, Democrats.

Don't you have some fascist talking points to post in another thread?

You really hate it when I'm pointing out the similarities of the Blue Capitalist Party to the Red Capitalist Party.

[Fark user image image 850x623]


In either case, the end result is the elimination of social programs because corporations need tax breaks.
 
jethroe
2023-02-02 4:16:47 PM  

Bonzo_1116: jethroe: Weaver95: On on top of gun violence and out of control cops, we're going to make poor people go hungry?

Hmm.

Relax, they got it handled.  Just in case those lazy sods decide to act out and get uppity.

FACT SHEET: President Biden's Safer America Plan | The White House (Fark won't allow me to hyperlink it)

www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/08/01/fact-sheet-president-bidens-safer-america-plan-2/#:~:text=The%20Plan%20will%3A,over%20the%20next%20five%20years.

Put 100,000 additional officers for effective accountable, community policing on our streets.The Safer America Plan will provide the investment necessary to recruit, train, support, and manage 100,000 additional police officers for effective, accountable community policing over the next five years...

These funds will be used to get officers out of their stations and squad cars and into the community, walking the beat on foot patrols that have been shown to enhance officer morale, improve community relations, and have a deterrent effect on crime.

They have it figured out.

I do like the underlined part (my underline).  First off, as if these hotdog-necked treat boys are going to "walking the beat on foot patrols" and secondly, how having cops on the streets "improves community relations".  Great stuff.

Patrolling in squad car separates the cop from the populace, and makes recognition of shared humanity much much harder.

But this is also a part of our impersonal car dependent culture that is turning our lives into a PvE experience with NPCs instead of the PvP it should be.


Cops decked out in full military gear waddling around the streets waiting to blow someone away for such violence as "reaching for a cellphone" or "running away" has never "improved community relations".  IMHO.
 
UltimaCS
2023-02-02 4:17:14 PM  

CCNP: UltimaCS: "There's no way we're going to have France-like revolutions as long as poor people are still fed."

Everybody thinks America is great simply because Americans spend less on food than any other country.
https://www.vox.com/2014/7/6/5874499/map-heres-how-much-every-country-spends-on-food


"When you account for all the billionaires and trust fund babies, the average American doesn't spend that much on food compared to their income."

Well, good for them I guess.
 
gbv23
2023-02-02 4:17:17 PM  
Blame The Little Guy!
 
middleoftheday [OhFark]
2023-02-02 4:18:12 PM  

silo123j: I got SNAP EBT cards because the kids were in a free lunch school from the pandemic. They are sitting in the drawer. I should probably use them. Maybe I will buy stuff for the food pantry.


Cool story bro.

Man what does 95 bucks even buy these days, like a couple dozen eggs?  Crappy timing, guys.
 
Tyrone Slothrop [TotalFark]
2023-02-02 4:19:45 PM  

jethroe: Weaver95: On on top of gun violence and out of control cops, we're going to make poor people go hungry?

Hmm.

Relax, they got it handled.  Just in case those lazy sods decide to act out and get uppity.

FACT SHEET: President Biden's Safer America Plan | The White House (Fark won't allow me to hyperlink it)

www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/08/01/fact-sheet-president-bidens-safer-america-plan-2/#:~:text=The%20Plan%20will%3A,over%20the%20next%20five%20years.

Put 100,000 additional officers for effective accountable, community policing on our streets.The Safer America Plan will provide the investment necessary to recruit, train, support, and manage 100,000 additional police officers for effective, accountable community policing over the next five years...

These funds will be used to get officers out of their stations and squad cars and into the community, walking the beat on foot patrols that have been shown to enhance officer morale, improve community relations, and have a deterrent effect on crime.

They have it figured out.

I do like the underlined part (my underline).  First off, as if these hotdog-necked treat boys are going to "walking the beat on foot patrols" and secondly, how having cops on the streets "improves community relations".  Great stuff.


Hey, don't you know that pointing out how Biden supports cops means you're actually a Republican? You're supposed to blindly agree with everything he does.
 
Mrtraveler01
2023-02-02 4:20:25 PM  

CCNP: Everybody thinks America is great simply because Americans spend less on food than any other country.
https://www.vox.com/2014/7/6/5874499/map-heres-how-much-every-country-spends-on-food


I think you overestimate how many people think America is "great".

https://qz.com/2078132/the-us-spends-far-less-on-food-than-europe-but-thats-changing
 
MattytheMouse
2023-02-02 4:20:57 PM  

jethroe: And I think they HAVE TO KNOW that the more they squeeze poor and middle-class workers (and they ARE squeezing - by raising the interest rates on us all (rather than taking money from billionaires)) they are causing more financial damage to the average Dick and Jane.  So they are preparing for the inevitable backlash.  If Americans can actually do that anymore.  But just in case they're gonna need more police --  er, security forces.


Have you seen the Rezvani Vengeance?

Misfiring the unlock button at after school pickup and pepper spraying my kids from the side mirrors as they're zapped by the electrified door handles I left armed pic.twitter.com/gawaYO6HcQ
- Eoin Higgins (@EoinHiggins_) January 23, 2023
This car has single handedly radicalized me. Like, when I first saw it, I was baffled. Who in their right mind would need a $300,000 sports utility tank? And then I realized: oh, Erik Prince types that know they're going to be lined up against the wall when things go south.
 
Exile On Beale Street [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-02 4:21:40 PM  

vilesithknight: Growing up poor, making it to middle class, still having lots of poor friends, I've seen quite a number of people irl who used gov't assistance like snap, and I don't know of one person that doesn't desperately need it and still struggles despite having it. I'll never understand the myth about the "widespread fraud" that occurs or the narrative that every person on snap is just lazy and doesn't want to work or something. I'm sure there is fraud, that's just the world we live in. But I'd bet for like every 1000 people that use it there is like 1 case of fraud. It's like the mentality is, because someone might abuse it, or someone may have abused it in the past, we now need to punish all poor people. But I digress. As I write this I really there is no point in ranting, the world is just an ugly f'd up place for anyone not in the top 10% of income brackets. Humans suck. We are a cancer on this wonderful planet.


Ronnie "welfare queen" Reagan when I was a kid.
 
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