The governors have given varying reasons for refusing to take part, from the price tag to the fact that the final details of the plan have yet to be worked out. Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds ( R) said she saw no need to add money to a program that helps food-insecure youths “when childhood obesity has become an epidemic.” Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen ( R) said bluntly, “I don’t believe in welfare.”
Wow, he basically said “because some kids are fat, none of them should be fed”. Yikes.
“Use SNAP benefits and get a job” -Jesus, apparently.
Jesus is shockingly libertarian.
Some say his cloning of fish and wine teach us that corporations shouldn’t be beholden to intellectual property rights, but at the same time not allowing the common folks to clone those materials themselves shows he is against piracy.
Through Jesus’s teaching we can reach a true free market paradise.
*she.
But yes to the Yikes.
They are Christians - is this the choice Jesus would make?
“They are Christians?” -Jesus
“They are Christians? Jesus…” - Jesus
“They took my wheel…” -Jesus
I know that the ‘Christian’ choice would be to accuse Jesus of socialism for helping the poor for free.
The bread and fishes are for winners!
-Jesus
“Fuck those little bastards, let them starve because poors aren’t really people.”
-Supply Side Jesus
Remember: The cruelty is the point.
2020 - S05E14 - The Kids Aren’t Alright
Republican governors in 15 states are rejecting a new federally funded program to give food assistance to hungry children during the summer months, denying benefits to 8 million children across the country. The program is expected to serve 21 million youngsters starting around June, providing $2.5 billion in relief across the country. The governors have given varying reasons for refusing to take part, from the price tag to the fact that the final details of the plan have yet to be worked out. Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds ® said she saw no need to add money to a program that helps food-insecure youths “when childhood obesity has become an epidemic.” Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen ® said bluntly, “I don’t believe in welfare.” - TV-MA, 54 mins
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If this were a west wing episode it would be dismissed as ridiculous and offensive.
i wish Bartlett was our president
They don’t like this program because they have no control over the funds. And it’s an election year so they want to virtue signal on welfare and spending. But they are fine with all the other funds their states leech off the federal government.
And Pillen is an especially big hypocrite here, because he’s a total welfare queen. Farm subsidies, millions in forgiven pandemic loans, 25$ million to build a pork processing factory. Pillen loves the government teat. What a piece of shit.
Every ® is vile garbage.
There are a couple handful of Republican states that haven’t taken advantage of the expanded medicaid help for poor people as well. Even though Federal funds pay 90% of the bill. Republican voters and Republican reps have such a BDSM relationship.
unpopular opinion: it’s not the states responsibility to pay for people’s children. if you think otherwise donate your money to non-profit charities that do what you believe in.
From the preamble to the Constitution of the USA:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
I think any one of the bolded items could be reasonably interpreted to include “make sure kids have food”. You are of course free to disagree but that seems pretty disingenuous to me.
A lot of people in the US really hate founding principles of the US. Which is fine, but they should really own up to it.
First off, it’s a federal funded program
Second, most of already donate taxes to our state
That’s not just an unpopular opinion, it’s objectively stupid and shortsighted. By allowing children to be malnourished, all you’re accomplishing is making them less productive adults and costing society more.
Your cargo-cult fiscal conservative argument is bad and you should feel bad.
charities are good and all but they are not a viable substitute for a working civilized society.
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