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1. Of course...
Mon Jan 13, 2020, 03:34 PM
Jan 2020

Perdue is even using rather dated rhetoric in an attempt to equate assistance with food with income and general welfare. But of course, Sonny Perdue is another one of Trumps Decepticons who was put there to destroy what he oversees, not manage it correctly or expand the help provided as the need is increasing. So, it's two prong. Cut the amount spent on SNAP and assure that much needed increases in amounts payed out to cover groceries, (food prices are going up all the time) are not even considered.

There is no evidence that SNAP discourages work and there is no cash payment involved. In fact, needed toiletries and other essential items are not eligible.

In my mind SNAP has nothing to do with encouraging or discouraging work and so, using that old Conservative line is an insult and, as stated, merely mean spirited. You could even say it is a big slap in the face to people in need and a very bad sign of how our country cares for the neediest and weakest among us.

And again, most of us know that about half the recipients are children, many are seniors who need food assistance badly, and another chunk are hard working people who can't make enough to cover all their expenses and who then suffer hunger and even malnutrition in the process. Oh, and their children, in their crucial, developmental phases are also then deprived of a healthy diet on a regular basis.

Perdue can go...well, you know. Sycophantic pestilence incarnate!

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