Our wonderful Paul Ryan in his ultimate wisdom thinks everyone getting Food Stamps (SNAP) does not work and are taking advantage of the system. He doesn’t seem to recognize that most of them are working but in dead-end jobs which do not provide them with a living wage and must then rely on Food Stamps and other government programs to help them.
It’s too bad that he and the rest of the Rethugs are bound and determined to undermine any increase in wages so that people are getting a "living wage" and not forced to swallow their pride and apply for Government Assistance!
No one stops to think that if the people were being paid a “living wage” they would more than likely be able to take care of themselves and not need Government Assistance. Not only that but if people were being paid a “living wage” they would be able to patronize the businesses they are working for and other businesses thus helping the economy grow!
I am on a limited income with Social Security and even though I would like to work and make enough so as not to rely on Social security Benefits just to survive, there is nothing I can do about that at this time.
As much as I would love to work and not have to make sure I do not make “too much money” current rules make that next to impossible. It amazes me how idiotic Congressman are when they have absolutely no idea we are barely surviving.
We don’t have the exorbitant incomes they are getting from their Congressional jobs they were elected to do by the voters, which they are not doing. Their only interest is in taking away from their constituents and benefiting themselves and their wealthy donors!
They associate with their ilk and go to their fancy functions & spend money like there is no tomorrow. It grates on me when Paul Ryan is constantly cutting people down who are on Food Stamps not thinking about all the benefits Food Stamps provide, not just to the people using them!
How about the Grocery Store where they shop for the food they purchase with their food stamps? They are helping that Grocery Store survive, be able to hire employees, which then provides jobs to some of these low-income people who are struggling to survive with what food stamps they can get.
How about all the manufacturers, the transportation not to mention the employees who run it to bring the food to the grocery store? How about farmers who grow the food which they are able to supply to people with SNAP benefits which helps them sell their produce directly to the customer locally and provides an income for themselves? How about all the people they need to work their fields and harvest their crops to be able to sell to the people on SNAP?
There are so many other people and businesses which are affected by people getting Food Stamps and SNAP benefits but the Rethugs in Congress don’t think any further than the end of their nose because many of them are greedy and only interested in how much money they make and their opulent lifestyle.
The Rethugs enjoy spending millions of dollars and more of Taxpayer’s money on frivolous investigations and no matter if the investigation did not turn up any smoking gun, they keep those investigations going because after all there is a scandal there somewhere, they know there is!
How much money have they wasted giving monstrous tax cuts to the upper 1%, then after they explode the deficit, they look for the social programs to cut to take care of the massive amounts of money they just gave away to the upper 1% who did not need it.
I always thought people in Congress had to have a certain amount of smarts but after reading the different diaries here from people in states where there are a lot of dim-bulb Republicans it has come to my attention that practically anyone could be a Congressman.
It is unbelievingly amazing at how stupid so many of them are and how they do not seem to follow the news and learn what the news organizations have found out. I have been watching Rachel Maddow on MSNBC and as soon as Drumpf won the election by fraudulent means she vowed not to listen to his idiotic statements he would make and which some of the other news organizations would cover and instead dig into Drumpf’s past to find out just how dishonest he was.
Her and her staff and the staff at MSNBC have done credible work finding things such as practically everything in the recently released Republican memo were lies and she had already exposed them many months before the BIG DUD memo came out and proved what a fool Devin Nunes, the Rethugs and Drumpf were.
The public already knew the true facts, at least those who are not Faux News viewers did. The Rethugs trying to tell the rest of us differently fell flat and made them look like the fools they are. Of course, Drumpf doesn’t know any better and relies on them telling him what to believe. They have convinced him that he was totally vindicated instead of telling him it has only added more proof of his obstruction of justice and the conspiracy to help Russia meddle in our election.
Even knowing that Russia has meddled in our election has not caused the Rethugs to be worried about it and instead, they are standing behind their nominee even though they know he is guilty as hell of the conspiracy with Russia to meddle in the 2016 election.