Way back when I wrote this diary that was rated poorly by the gate keepers here at Daily Kos I added some links to other previous diaries that I had written on the subject that brings Ole Texan back to the boards......... I have been seeeeeeeek:(
Some of our good and better democrats here at Kos lugged this diarist to the wood shed and beat him up for writing so poorly about our first Black President. The gall of the diarist to say our president lies.
That subject that I hounded relentlessly on Food Stamps trade-offs by demorcrats earned me some mild scorn by yet better democrats here was printed here in this diary where I lamented being told to swallow my entitlement cuts on Social Security and food stamps. My household was wounded then and the president had a very difficult time trying to walk away around those cuts that became a reality in November when my food stamps were slashed, and told to wait for more of the same.
Well, the time for more of the same has arrived as politicians have enleashed the assault.
With deep regret I cracked my knuckles and sat down absorbing pain in my soul and heart to tell all the little people including me that more of the same mentioned then is now here, a reality that tells us the Republicans are taking no prisoners.
As James E. Causey wrote on today`s opinion section of the Milwaukee Red leaning newspaper Journal Sentinel `In Wisconsin and other states, the old saying, "will work for food," is about to take on a new and unfortunate meaning.`
Tell me about it James. We were warned. Better democrats did nothing, sat on their asses and worried about being re-elected to office where their bread and butter never stales or spoils.
Under federal rule changes, about I million people will be cut off Food Stamps nationally over the course of the next year as many areas return to a three-month limit on benefits.
Starting April 1 in Wisconsin, thousands of poor people who can work and don't care for small children or have a medical condition could lose their food stamps if they are not enrolled in a state job training program.
You see folks, in Wisconsin it seems that Republicans have created so many jobs in this state that all of these one million souls who still need food stamps can get work. This news surprised a man who was collecting small plastic bags of groceries, from the
UMOS food Bank on the city's south side Monday afternoon.
"Sounds like they are trying to get people off of food stamps to me," said the man, who has been looking for work since he was laid off in late October.
Under the new rules, people would be working for their food stamps and not for a check.
Regardless of how you feel about people on food stamps who are abled bodied, if anyone spends up to 80 hours a month in a training program, that person needs to be compensated fairly. And paying someone in food stamp benefits doesn't cut it, especially when the average monthly benefit in Wisconsin is $110.21 per person or $1.38 an hour. In other words, slave wages.
It is very painful for me at this time to write. When I read James E. Causey whom I read daily, confirming what I wrote long ago about `more to come` in the assault on Food Stamps for the most needy among us -- I just knew it was time for me to write, for whatever its worth.
If you or someone you know are on Food Share the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and are unaware ot this new federal rules on Food Stamps that has now arrived with a vengence, I urge you to read the artice that this diary is based upon.
If you think that because this new revelation does not apply to my family, it matters not to me. I need to pass down this information for those who do apply.
Good Luck if this horrendous new federal rule applies to you.