I heard a lot of veterans are on food stamps. Why? Dunno. apparently some of them have mental or physical difficulties and they aren’t adapting to the economy. Maybe they’re the percentage of the military population who need food stamps- it happens.
Well, food stamps are getting cut. The people hollering for these cuts are the same fellows who got us into the last two wars and generated these veterans in the first place. What are they supposed to do now, starve? The same fellows are against raising the minimum wage, too.
If the solution is, “well, get food stamps to those veterans right away!”, I’d like to point out that not everyone else on food stamps is some lazy bum, assholes.
You know what they say, careful what you wish for. They are perfectly capable of doubling veteran’s benefits and cut all the rest. Flow My Crocodile Tears, the Republican Said.
The identity is murky as it isn’t clear who is ultimately behind the food stamp cuts. Polls show voters generally approve of the food stamp program though.
Meh. It doesn’t seem like the need is expired. The Bush tax cuts didn’t entirely expire, and certainly not as scheduled. Same fellows, too. Same fellows want to roll back the sequester on the defense budget and keep the rest!
Actually, a really high percentage of the families of enlisted personnel have always been on food stamps long before either Iraq or Afghanistan.
I grew up in a Navy town(Newport RI) and saw it all the time. Considering how little money they make, particularly if they’re not overseas and not getting hazard pay, it’s hardly surprising.
And millions of people potentially could be dropped from food stamp coverage. Between you and me, I don’t think small benefits to the working poor are what’s wrong with our economy.
Fox News: Very rich people telling rich people to tell middle class people to blame poor people. Worked quite well many times in the past. Course, now, there’s a lot more poor people than there were before. And a lot of them were never poor before, don’t know the rules about how its all their fault.
Middle class people were okay with dumping everything on the poor back when they thought they themselves might be rich someday. Now that middle class people see they have a better chance of ending up poor than ending up rich, they’re rethinking their position.
I don’t have an opinion about funding for food stamps, but this is a *really *weak argument.
On the one hand it can be applied to basically anything since veterans will be a percentage of every program (“Cut funding for the Smithsonian? But veterans go to those museums!”), and on the other hand it’s not like their military service is the *reason *for these veterans’ being on food stamps. I mean, I’m sure there are people for whom that’s the case, but that’s gonna be the exception and not the rule.
People who willing signed up to go kill themselves some brown people who suddenly find they can’t cope with having done so are not at the top of my sympathy list.
Number one is you, for your obvious inability to comprehend rhetoric. Number two is me, for being stupid enough to reply to you. Number three is anyone who reads this.