Oh, here we go. It won't be long before the Troglodyte talking heads start whining about poor people having air conditioners and TVs. Meanwhile, people who have more money than they can spend in 10 lifetimes need another goddam tax cut. Jeezus.
Yep. The brilliance of Republican propaganda is that they convinced working class people to blame the wrong party for their fabricated culture war butthurt.
It is. That's why Fat Donny pandered so hard to the Evangelical Troglodytes, even though he doesn't give 2 shits about religion; it was a ready-made army of braindead zombie voters, waiting for instructions.
Imaging not wanting to eat cat food being labeled as a “life style choice”. I know a lot of aged conservative Christians who are not going to react well to this use of their language
Except you are not looking for waste, abuse, and fraud. If you were, you would consider letting the tax cut for billionaires. Cut corporate waste, fraud, and abuse of the tax code!
I feel like a good country would riot over this. But the people not on food stamps will say “good, I’m better than these bottom feeders, how dare they get handouts” while completely ignoring the handouts given to the corporations and rich.
"The heartless bastard continued, later, saying 'I'm introducing a new bill regulating life vests too, requiring them all to be on a 1 hour timer...if you aren't safe by then, the vest dissolves and you simply drown...and it's on YOU'"
They should also outlaw begging for help with medical bills on Go Fund Me (more than half of campaigns are for that). People should just get 4 more jobs to pay for their care or put their kids to work. No begging! Take care of your own self! No more jars by the cash register to help little Susie.
Ah yes, life jackets. It's well known if you see a family barely staying alive in the ocean you can take their lifejackets away if you feel they've been using them too long.
You wear a freakin life vest until the ship shows up to SAVE you. You don’t wear a life vest until you can swim to shore, teach yourself to swim, buy another boat, get back out on the water, and jump back into it, just to show everyone that you can swim.
Where is the ship?
This is the plan. Those red states not getting food stamps is sad for children, but I hope the outcome is an education for adults. I don't see how they can spin that and blame Dems
They don’t raise the minimum wage, don’t cut taxes for the majority, don’t regulate corp price gouging, don’t help healthcare costs, want to implement mass tariffs and people are supposed to pull themselves up by the bootstraps of the boots they can’t afford to buy
Democrats need to get in front of cameras every day to explain to the American people that Republicans want to take stuff from poor people so that rich people get richer. Every👏🏻single👏🏻goddam👏🏻day👏🏻.
So many Americans voted unwisely for Trump who in a blink, will approve cuts to a Social Security, Medicare, & food stamps pulling the social safety net right out from under their own feet 👣.
What about all the money and healthcare they get for free after out of office? How about we cut that. Oh and felons in government shouldn’t be paid. If they are the most worthless republican reps they should not be paid when they can’t work together because they want to cover for other felons.
This will hurt Trump voters! Because of course they don’t need to buy food that they can’t afford to buy because food prices will rise again under the guy they voted for. Sadly they didn’t listen to the voices of reasonable people.
I am once again begging people like this to understand we are meant to admire and emulate Scrooge only AFTER his visitation by the three ghosts. Rep. Alford, you will wear the chains you are forging right now.
Can you imagine how robust America’s public safety net would be if all these politicians had to live on Food Stamps? Let’s make poverty tours a prerequisite to holding public office. One year of living in shelters and on TANIF.
He’s referring to the plan to cut the tax rate for the very wealthy down to 15%, down from 21%. This continues the trend from their first administration which cut the rate Musk pays from 35%to 21%. Then mid income tax rates will go up to pay for this drastic cut.
Most snap benefits are given to senior citizens, disabled individuals, and children. That's the fact. This is who they want to pay for their tax breaks.
This congressman on the Agriculture Committee should really spend more time visiting community food projects. He'd learn a lot about food insecurity, hopefully enough that he'd stop thinking of it as a "lifestyle" and recognize that SNAP actually is a "life vest" for tens of millions of people.
Of course they would also be against raising wages so people could avoid being on food stamps. Good quality motivation from the people who are out of touch with reality
I don’t receive Foods Stamps so I’m not worried. But there are a lot of Cubans living in Hialeah that do. And the fools voted for tRump. It’s the same thing with Obamacare. The largest number of people using Obamacare live where? In Hialeah. Them Cuban fools are going to cry a lot.
This is also gonna cause the elderly to have to move in with family members. They won't be able to support themselves. They'll be multiple generations in one house. Yep... make America great again. you could also say that's one way to fix the housing crisis. Boy they're just full of great ideas.
The GOP always seem to have a hard time with this sort of thing, never having issue cutting aid for the majority because of a small minority of individuals who might take advantage.
Meanwhile the rich get richer and continue to consolidate various markets year over year.
Like I said. Republican health plan is Die and if you don’t die of disease we’ll starve you to death. No boot straps? Just too bad. After all this is the nation of rugged individuals and we don’t help anyone. But we go to church to harden our hearts cause…Jesus🤬
Didn't take long. The most important thing going forward is to inform people of the consequences of this election. Republicans always blame Dems and we don't fight the narrative enough.
/1 I would love to hear his answer to this: what if the person in question is elderly, already on SS and STILL needs food stamps and Medicaid just to get by. What would you like to tell them? Just die?
Tax cuts for wealthy and corporations are absolutely unneeded and are the worst example of
I'm disabled. I have arthritis in every joint in my body and suffer chronic pain every day. I guess the Republican Fascists don't want disabled people to eat, have health care or a place to live.
I agree food stamps are a basic lifeline and should not be changed; however the program has a lot of fraud, would be nice if that fraud could be tackled; also would be nice if people did not use them to buy cigarettes for example; it’s not allowed but happens a lot
I’ve never been able to trade in food stamps for cash or even toilet paper by stores. SNAP only covers 1/3 of my food costs & I receive less than 1/2 max allowed. This year I was audited at random for my SNAP which was a financial cavity search. The system is not as loose as people imagine it is.
It happens all the time in my local bodega; not for cash but for cigarettes for sure; there is a lot of fraud in the system; you should read the GAO report I posted; staggering fraud; I wish we can fix the fraud or at least put a dent
As for that bodega and similar stores- they should be held accountable- financially (like fines) or by removing snap access as a form of payment. I’d imagine this would make a lot of them get in line.
I agree that fraud exists (I read the report) & can be perpetrated as per your example. Smaller stores can ring up an item (like cigs) as generic food and pass that way- & there are holes the way the states detects fraud. But I see my state changing the way they approach applications and renewals.
SNAP is an important if not vital program to be sure, but my fear is the fraud as staggering as it is, could be severely understated in the GAO report; would love to put a dent in the fraud and reallocate funds to other useful programs
The fun part is that while they cut food stamps, they are doing all they can to undermine worker rights to try to earn more money through unions, etc. This whole trickle-down thing is going to work any day now, I am sure of it. Assuming they don't run the economy into the ground in the process.
With Republican control of all the branches AND the SCOTUS - we are in for a MASSIVELY deteriorating system of checks and balances, and social assistance agencies in the next 2 years with the only hope that PEOPLE WAKE UP and VOTE come 2026 to kick out those responsible.
Alford was our local Fox 4 morning anchor for many years. He was mean. He was a bully. He thought he was funny when he was really being cruel. I loathed him and was so glad when he quit. And look where that asshole turned up.
says someone who sees a sinking boat a few dozen yards off shore from his mansion and decides the action is to toss a few life vests 10 feet from the comfort of his back porch while handing his wealthy neighbor the keys to a new Tesla.
Why is it those who are suffering the most that are attacked first with these people? How are they making Rep. Alford's life more difficult? Screw that pile of pig slop, a worthless human, vile to the core. Always has been, always will be.
Says the MAGA rep who makes $174,000 a year plus lifetime pension and health benefits and a big expenses allowance. Plus all the payoffs and backhanders from his donors and puppeteers.
I really don't get the tradeoff here. We already have massive deficits, so cutting programs just leads to slightly less massive deficits and not exactly a some gain in which to justify more tax cuts. But I guess they gotta sell stuffing their pockets one way or another. It's really disingenuous.
People who need food assistance can’t get it.
2 people living on a single SS retirement check is over the limit. The program is already gone for the most part.
The GOP's contempt for decency is demonstrated by their simultaneous insistence that: 1) hard-working middle-class Americans can't even afford to buy groceries anymore; 2) hardly anyone really needs Food Stamps, that money could be better spent on tax cuts for rich people.
I think we should cut congressional salaries, benefits, and health insurance to pay for more tax cuts. Why should we be funding freeloaders like Comrade Alford for his lifestyle?
Yes and the senate.
Ridiculous that they all can vote themselves a pay raise. How about every time they get a pay raise, the minimum wages is increased the same amount. If they need a pay raise, clearly everyone else does too!
Sure, the pro life Republicans don’t care if children are fed and receive health care once they are born; but let’s make sure all babies that are conceived are born.
1/2… As a general principle, I believe that the government should not provide social assistance indefinitely to its citizens unless the recipient is physically or mentally unable to take care of themselves. However, there are many other factors to consider in this situation.
2/2… Other relevant factors connected to this issue include increasing the minimum wage so that a person working full-time can live above the poverty line, improving education and apprenticeship programs, providing elder family care, and supporting special needs care. Everything is interconnected.
Fuqq all those holier than though faux Christians who are planning to hurt the most vulnerable among us….since they believe in hell, here’s hoping they all burn in it for their selfish cruelty.
Most of my SNAP clients had /multiple jobs bc they couldn’t find sufficient employment to meet their needs—just like me before I began my 30-year career with the agency that dispenses SNAP in my State.
So let’s cut aid & screw those who need help so the rich can get richer. The more things change…
Thank you for the work you do. I suspect they'd really like it if food aid was charities only, because these people are 1) very good at robbing from charities and 2) love the power trip of gatekeeping who gets to benefit and possibly 3) eager to make people sit through a sermon in order to eat.
Yes - some take advantage of the system but they're not getting rich. I personally know people who were on food stamps. They paid into the system that gave them temporary help until they got back on their feet. Government that doesn't care for all of its people isn't government worth having.
These people care about nobody but themselves and putting money in their own pockets at the expense of other’s survival. Somehow everyone else is “lazy.” Guess what, 22K AD military members are on SNAP too, but they won’t pay them more to get by either.
Raise the tax on billionaires back to where it was - instead of cuts for billionaires who have the $ by cutting the food out of the mouths of seniors & kids. You know thats what is happening.
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I learned that difference in a 1975 sociology class! 😳
That's a huge voting block! 😖
Remember that part of “A Christmas Carol” when Scrooge tells the charity guys to (get lost)?
This is where we’re headed.
Be the reformed Scrooge.
If you’re able, donate $$ to local food charities.
Or are you suggesting it should be a way of life?
Where is the ship?
Buncha dumb white middle class who think they're closer to the country club than the welfare line.
Cut off the no bid cost+ welfare queens of the MIC
Disgusting GOP, a-f*ckin-gain.
We’re cruel to those at the bottom of the economy.
To the loyal middle class, we give out some goodies
You can rise up the ladder based on your constant acts of loyalty
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-21-45
Meanwhile the rich get richer and continue to consolidate various markets year over year.
Fun (sad).
Tax cuts for wealthy and corporations are absolutely unneeded and are the worst example of
Our seniors deserve better. SO much better.
Just the concept of cutting taxes for the 1% is INSANE!
Maybe someone should live on only fed poverty level for a decade.
By the way, the cake was not actually cake but a rich bread made with eggs and butter.
With Republican control of all the branches AND the SCOTUS - we are in for a MASSIVELY deteriorating system of checks and balances, and social assistance agencies in the next 2 years with the only hope that PEOPLE WAKE UP and VOTE come 2026 to kick out those responsible.
This is going to be rough 4 years for so many. MAGA loves to make people suffer, it is what they get off on.
And Republicans in general are excited to do these things.
Probably the R next to his name
2 people living on a single SS retirement check is over the limit. The program is already gone for the most part.
People who need food stamp assistance will have to suffer so the ultra rich can enjoy an even more lavish lifestyle.
Majority of Americans, who are on these programs are white
Ridiculous that they all can vote themselves a pay raise. How about every time they get a pay raise, the minimum wages is increased the same amount. If they need a pay raise, clearly everyone else does too!
Step 1: Cut Food Stamps
*Gives tax cut to billionaires
Step 2: Cut Medicaid
*Gives tax cut to billionaires
Step 3: Cut Social Security & Medicare
*Gives tax cut to billionaires
Step 4: Work people until they die on the job
So let’s cut aid & screw those who need help so the rich can get richer. The more things change…