Republicans Pushing to Make SNAP Even Harder to Get
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- Republicans in the House of Representatives announced a proposal to make it significantly harder to get SNAP benefits. Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss on The Young Turks. Watch TYT LIVE on weekdays 6-8 pm ET. th-cam.com/users/the...
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"More than a dozen House Republicans are expected to release legislation Tuesday that would impose more harsh work requirements on certain recipients of federal food aid, a clear signal that the GOP intends to target nutrition assistance in critical debt ceiling, budget, and farm bill talks.
Led by Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.), the measure would "expand the age bracket for able-bodied [Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program] recipients without dependents, who have to meet complicated work requirements," according to Politico, which obtained a copy of the bill ahead of its official introduction.
Johnson's legislation, which currently has 14 Republican co-sponsors, would broaden the SNAP work requirement age bracket for able-bodied adults without dependents to 18 to 65, adding 16 years to the current age ceiling of 49, Politico reported. Former President Donald Trump previously proposed raising the age ceiling to 62."
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Many of the people on SNAP are already working full time. They just get paid so little that they still qualify.
EXACTLY!! Those who have never been on it have NO idea what it's like trying to ration and find food cheap enough to keep your family fed WHILE working a job or two that doesn't pay enough to foot the bills!
Taxpayers are essentially subsidizing the employers since they refuse to pay their employees enough, while they roll in more money than they know what to do with.
@@berniethekiwidragon4382 exactly.
Call me crazy, but if someone says they need SNAP benefits, we should just give it to them. I’d rather help 1000 people that don’t really need it than not help 1 person that really does need it.
That's not crazy at all. What's crazy is not wanting to help people while proclaiming to be a follower of Jesus Christ. Why is every atheist I know so much more generous, not just with money, but with kindness and love?
You are a kind soul, and embody the kind of charity and humanity that all people should possess. Best wishes to you.
Politicians know poor people won't work for slave wages if they have government benefits.
Because nothing says Family Values like making sure Families starve.
If you are middle class or rich, you deserve to have a family.
If you're poor, you need to be reminded that you're a failure or die off.
Republican ideology 101
I can't believe we're in March already and they still haven't done anything about the debt ceiling. Wtf? Incompetence at the highest level.
The cruelty isn't a bug, it's the feature.
More people in the center need to realize this, they think they are dealing with people who have a conscience and common decency, they see those qualities as "weakness".
My uncle is on the SNAP program. He's a former business owner. I hope Republicans see that some people go broke by no fault of their own.
Even if someone goes broke due their own fault: no one should starve.
@@sisuguillam5109 This!
Republicans assign value to people based on how hard they work.
Since poor people don't work hard enough, they have no value.
And thank you so much Cenk and Ana! You're empathy for our children and the needy is always sincerely appreciated!🌿💔
The median salary in the US is $44,225 in 2022. The majority of Americans (54.98%) make $50k per year or less, while only 18% of individual Americans make $100k per year or more. Let's take that $16B in oil and gas subsidies, along with the $100B waste in defense spending and use that for a $2,000 monthly UBI check for those making less than 50k, $1,500 for those making less than 75k and $1,000 for those making less than 100k. The United States will turn into a economic powerhouse! This will increase consumer spending power, create jobs, and students can get that college education without getting deep into debt! Let's stop the wasteful defense spending and subsidies going to the top 1% AND HELP THE AMERICAN PEOPLE! IT'S OUR MONEY ANYWAY! This would be just but bread crumbs compared to what the top 1% gets EVERY YEAR! If you want this to become a reality, three things must happen first: 1.STOP voting republican. 2.STOP voting for corporate democrats. 3. START voting for progressive candidates because they're the ONLY one's who TRULY care and will help the American people!
The government and corporations don't want that.
If we equalize the monthly money, how would we know who are the better people? Everyone would be the same and boring. What individual would ever need to do anything? Just exist? Sound boring as all get-out...
The working poor, puts food on the republicans table by paying their taxes.
I remember once seeing this PSA years ago where 6 kids are in school & during lunch 1 of them has no food so a kid that brought their lunch gave the boy some chips. The PSA was about how roughly 1 in 6 kids in the U.S. face poverty in that they go hungry & for many lunch at school may be the only meal they get a day. So, this is why it's so important for programs like SNAP to remain in place to ensure we prevent actual living children from going hungry in the United States.
Fortunately many school systems make sure children get three square meals a day.
its also a self esteem issue. These effing animal Republicans. Cenk should try to help wipe them off the map vs slamming Democrats so much
Exactly. But republicans don't care about kids (when they're not fetuses).
I’m on SNAP benefits currently. I had an emergency amount added to my benefits during the pandemic, totaling over $250. This month, the emergency amount was taken away from me this month, and now I only get $56 for SNAP benefits. I don’t have much to live on due being on disability. I live in Illinois - which a blue state. But even so, I don’t get much from my home state’s SNAP benefits, which goes by the name of LINK.
In the end, my point is that those on retirement, disability, Social Security, Medicare, and SNAP benefits never get enough to live off of each month.
So sorry to hear about that!
@@denisemayosky1955 Thank you Denise, I appreciate that. I thought I’d use myself as an example of how hard it is for someone like me (I’m a person on disability). I had a promising future, until I lost my college grant in 1994, and got severely sick several months later. Seems like the system is set up to punish or torture anyone who is poor, middle class, disabled or elderly.
I feel you. Mine went down to $23 a month I live in Wa state average rent for a 1 br or a studio is $1300.00 a month. I get subsidized housing for $900.00 I only get $1300.00 and some odd change a month they say I don't qualify for medacade my medacare cost me $179.00 a month does not pay for prescriptions. I have to decide what's more important my diabetes med my blood pressure and heart meds or my Asthma medication. Should I buy medication or eat? Out of the $400 I have after rent I have to pay water, power, phone ,gas , auto repair and what ever else. I am disabled as well. The other day my Dr. Yelled at me for not taking my health seriously because I told her I don't buy all my meds I don't have gas and my car is about to break so I don't fallow up with specialest Doctors.
I tell you I just need a win. One win would feel so big right now. I would love to work but anything I can do I can't do ya know what I mean? I'll keep my fingers crossed for you Unfrozen caveman. I hope you get a win soon too brother.🤞🖖🫂
@bigboy4006 if you are on SS Disability, you should be receiving much more than $56 for SNAP. Even without the emergency amount. Your deduction of the emergency allotment should have been between $40-$50. Not the other way around!
I highly suggest contacting your local free/ pro bono law services places and have them look into this. They have specific departments for ssi/SSD and the disabled.
Politicians believe poor people are lazy and thus don't deserve government help.
Interesting that this is happening while billionaires are getting bailed out in their deregulated bank failures.
It's about ideology. Not economics.
Just-world fallacy.
Conservatives believe rich people and business owners have "succeeded" in the "system that works," so if they make a mistake, they deserve to get bailed out due to their success.
Whereas poor people have "failed" so any government help they receive is a "hand-out."
Thanks for speaking on the elephant in the room. Good luck finding a job over the age of 55. It's impossible and very depressing.
When my daughter was a toddler I was working overnights at Walmart for about $12 an hour, the max number of hours that Walmart scheduled most people at that time which I believe was 32 hours. I couldn't even afford childcare so only slept when my daughter napped most days. I applied for food stamps and got approved... For $19 a month. Crazy
That's messed up
I earned a master's degree in 2005 and became homeless in 2012. Fewer than 1% of my job applications result in an interview. I'm 47 years old and medically limited to desk work. While I was shelter-homeless, I applied to 3,895 jobs, and interviewed for only 33. I'm thankful NYC waives those work requirements.
If you had a job, you wouldn't need food stamps. It is redundant.
Once your over 35 it is harder to get those high paying corporate jobs. Even if the company does not pay benefits they still wont hire you. They want 20 somethings and to fire or lay them off once they hit their mid to late 30s. This has been the case since the 80s. The older you are the harder it is to get those jobs. That is why so many people are stuck at places like walmart. Many of the more privilaged by me are discovering this fact and they dont like it. They sold their homes and everything they owned. They are now working at walmart. They are in their 30s and cant find a job like what they had. It is way more complicated than you people know. As for starting a business well good luck with that as they have made that harder.
@@lokinakor1 Walmart workers qualify for food stamps.
@@scottandrewhutchins So, your point is: American workers have no representation because the jobs we can get won't keep us out of poverty.
@@lokinakor1 correct.
Spouse & I are 65+ and 70+. Both disabled. In two weeks our SNAP will go down to $35/month!
That could buy us one meal a day. Can you imagine that meal? :-O Gruell?
""Sir, may I have some more?"
NC - Mine has been cut down to $23 in Snap for 2 people, with a 39% increase in grocery stores. We both have LUPUS
Wtf
In Canada. Lost my job at age 58. Took me 3 years to find employment. First time in my life I struggled to find a way to support myself. Not to mention feeling REAL OLD as a result of not being considered for a job.
Don't we all love how the group that claims to be "pro-life" doesn't care if a kid starves or suffers once out of the womb?!?
If you're rich.
They don't really care about them when they are in the womb. Pregnant women have to eat too, and they don't even want to help pregnant women eat numb to the fact that the future child growing inside has to get fed by the person who is pregnant.
@@DearCult45cultist I know...but they really try to convince people they care about fetuses! Until you actually look at their policies...
Also it's not just physical impairment there is also several people with mental handicaps who can't work a job I know a person who has extreme CPTSD he can't work he's physically able but not mentally not to mention the seniors who need snap there is a war on the poor I remember a saying I used to hear and it goes like this the rich get richer and the poor get poorer
In the song Ain't We Got Fun, it's the rich get richer and the poor get children. Coming true again.
They always look to nickel and dime on the poorest but will happily spunk billions upon billions on corporations, especially defence contractors (for equipment that will likely never see combat)
Yes.
Good thing Wal-Mart give you a seminar on how to apply for government assistance as part of your employee induction. Can't expect Wal-Mart to pay living wages to sub humans.
I was getting $236/month in CO. I’m homeless, living in my car, with medical issues where I cannot work. I was just approved for disability, but not enough to get a one bedroom apartment here, and my SNAP benefits dropped to $26/month because I make too much. I do donate plasma to get a little extra. Big surprise, I’m still living in my car with my dog
The American dream treats you well, bro.
America is too busy taking care of illegal immigrants and sending money to Ukraine than taking care of Americans
@@diana9235
If you believe that then you are a bigger idiot than I thought you were.
I would love to be able to say that this is a shocking and surprising things for Republicans to do however I find myself totally unsurprised and fully expected this from them
Is it shocking and surprising to hear that some of us don't want to be overran by Mexico?
I was thrown out of work at age 52 after working 35 years for the same company. (2008) I used to catch possum and wild boars in FL for food, and cook field grasses for soup to survive during those years. No one hired 52 years olds during those times.
Nor today
I started receiving SNAP back when it was called Food Stamps & yeah, the numbers shown at 3:40 in the video are accurate with what I've received for years. Worst part though came when I managed to get a job, if it was part time I lost a portion of my stamps, & a full time job I had my stamps drop to about $2.00 a month.
If republicans want to get rid of SNAP, then force jobs to pay more.
They don't want jobs to pay more either.
They oppose any policies that help reduce poverty.
Republicans aren't actually interested in ending poverty.
Republicans oppose a living wage minimum wage because they believe minimum wage workers don't deserve to make all that money.
@@scifirealism5943 then Why do they increase minimum wage?
@@tioswift3676 The minimum wage has not been increased in over ten years.
These people are sick
What makes me sick is, as a rich nation , we demoralize the poor, the children, and elderly. One aspect I have learned from other nations, is their respect for the elderly and family. I worked with a nurse from the Philippines, who housed his parents, an aunt, uncle, and nephews. They lived as a family unit and were the sweetest family I ever met. I know a person from Pakistan,who also houses his parents and grandparents. And, yes, they are all legal.
It's called just-world
fallacy. It drives Republican ideology.
Yea it's like this in many diff countries. They've brainwashed us here to make us feel like at 18 we need to get our of your parents house. I guess it's preparation to know what it's gonna feel like to get *FŮKD*
The USA mentality is " I got mine; screw you."
@@jenniferr9624 unfortunately yes. It’s all about upbringing.
@@tioswift3676i believe hatred is taught.
Food? They are going to deprive poor people of food? Oliver Twist! We throw out 40% of the food in this country. We can afford to give poor people food. We should be giving them more food not less.
The point is the cruelty.
I would give away food benefits (they no longer use the little stamp coupon money) like candy. No one should be living with food insecurity in this country. The money actually goes to the stores. The person who gets the benefit gets food.
We already have a poverty rate about twice as high (12% overall and 17% for children) as any other western democracy so the GQP's solution is to make even more of our citizens' food insecure? Keep this in mind when you vote in 2024.
It's more like 44% based on the poor people's campaign.
140 million people.
I'm a 52 year old disabled, divorced man and as SSD is not enough to survive on, I get $53/month in SNAP benefits. It's ridiculous and my parents, dad is almost 80 and mom is disabled, both draw social security and their combined income in this state is barely over the income limit for being able to receive SNAP.
Yeah, that is pretty disgusting. My partner is on disability and because we live together, any money I make is taken out of his disability payments. Just lubricous, it's kept us in poverty for over a decade now.
Poverty is a feature
How much of our lives are we forced to work? It is unnatural. They are trying to make it natural.
My father was a union organizer and member we had nothing at the time and he found a way to start a community action program which fed four neighborhoods. When I See This prevailing attitude of apathy towards hungry children it makes me sick! And these are the same people that claim to be Christians! May their own hate turn back on them to devour what's left of their souls!🌿💔
Well said
It's Calvinism alive and well.
I disagree with getting rid of SNAP benefits. Not everyone who were using SNAP were lazy freeloaders. The rich's inhumanity to the middle and under class.
They're cherry-picking data because they don't want to say the quiet part out loud: that ending poverty would give workers the power to reject dead-end job offers and contest the power of corporations.
If we truly had robust welfare programs that poor people like myself desire, no one would ever work in fast food or retail, for minimum wage, with 0 benefits or chance for advancement.
Gods help us all.
This country is falling apart economically and physically, but the greed and corruption continue to grow like a festering wound.
Nope you Just bias
@@OGCHUCK1 🤓🤓🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
I know let's keep sending trillions of dollars to Ukraine that will help the American family to stay a float. Can even find a decent one bedroom apt for under $1k a month. Everything is going up up up except our wages!!!
Ah yes cruelty is always the point with these Christofascist hypocrites, like when Mick Mulvaney wanted to defund Meals on Wheels! He coined it "compassion for the taxpayer!"
I'm your biggest fan in Italy, much love and respect!
The most I ever got for snap was about $36/mo. (Utah) I was single, unemployed, on medicaid and disability, and going through cancer treatments. Yes, $36/mo. And after the first year, it went down a few dollars each year until it was $9/mo. It was an insult.
I don't know what's more insulting: the fact that they paid you only $36 a month or the fact that they think that that Measley amount is too much.
I don't understand why republicans say greed is good: telling CEO's they deserve to make millions more, but they also oppose poor people making Fifteen dollars an hour.
I got $219 a month and only due to covid.
In North Carolina, once you turn 26. If you don't have kids or disabilities, you can't get any welfare.
Wow. I’m so sorry.
Those greedy hungry poor people wanting to not starve
WORK SHALL SET YOU FREE
This move by these Traitorous Republicans will definitely affect most of their supplicants.
take away food, take away house, means more crime not less. means less dignity for everyone
Except republicans believe in just-world fallacy.
Once again cruelty is thepoint. If your probably know that companies won't look at you if your over 40 for a new job
Rick Scott should be in prison. What a disgrace.
It's dumb. They haven't done the math on exactly how much it would save. Over 70% of snap recipients are employed. The remainder are legitimately unemployable.
In fact, the average working hours of someone on snap is higher than the same in the general population.
you so crazy yes they work for Walmart n the like dummy😂😂😂😂 they don’t make enough to pay for food a gas you dummy 😂😂😂
They have done the math.
The point of restrictions on welfare is simple: poor people won't work for slave wages if they have government benefits.
It’s like they are trying to turn the phrase ‘eat the rich’ into a literal necessity.
I got my Tabasco!!
Yep.
Regular or extra crispy?
They need to stop attacking the people who don't have the funds to even barely survive and start making the rich pay their share and we wouldn't have to worry about this shit. Also I think that there need to be some new requirements for representatives in both the house and the Senate and one of those would be they need to attend some sympathy/ empathy training during the time that they are running for office and if they do not complete the training course they would be removed from the ballot.
Personally I think all elected officials should go through some form of empathy training especially those that are involved in things like financial and medical support systems including not just physical health but mental health as well. This really makes me wish that I had my dream clinic up and running.....
I feel you there I'm on disability and food stamps my disability most of it goes towards rent and bills. I'm also on food stamps which is harder to make stretch due to rising food costs. I cannot tell you how many times on a daily basis I get accused of abusing the system. because I also suffering from PTSD, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder and I have emotional dysregulation. Nobody's going to want to hire someone who can't regulate their emotions. Yes it is a real thing it's a component of being developmentally delayed. Also if people want to start making comments about what I own material wise. I have one game system that was donated, my bed donated, my TV donated and all of it was used but refurbished.
Your disability is considered "WELFARE" to "rethugliKKKons," let's ALL remember that, along with social security. They don't give a sh*t if you live or die.
Right away,!!! They go after poor ppl imediatly.
Far as SNAP, ask the people who get SSI and such that got a slight increase, but they took away from their SNAP. If they're complaining about funds, its simple, quit sending billions overseas. People are struggling right now in this economy while both parties have no clue what the average person goes through day to day. It doesn't surprise me at all that they want to make things harder to get. They keep raising the age on social security. I think its obvious at this point that Republicans and Democrats can't get the job done. I don't understand why we keep voting these clowns in office. Congress needs to be filled with average people that actually knows what's going on and not a bunch of rich folks out of touch.
Poor people would run for office if they could afford it.
Many of them, like myself, are stuck in terrible jobs with no way to move up or out.
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Isaac Asimov b 1920 d 1992
Well said!!!
ABAWD (Able Bodied and Without Dependents) work requirement currently suspended in Imperial County, California because of unemployment level. It’s been suspended since at least the last 10 years but most likely more. That was just how long I managed cases from 2012 to 2022. With that being said, they’re greedy animals. I totally agree.
That's messed up.
We should enact a work requirement for Congress. No more f**king around getting a paycheck for BS posturing…
I'm in disability I have no other income I live in in CALIFORNIA very expensive I only get $62 per month!
Money for banks n wars on lies is ok. But food for own American poor , they must take. Unbelievable
Rich people deserve money because they earned it. You give money to people who are hard working, not lazy.
Republican ideology 101
@@scifirealism5943 don’t worry. D poor will chop off those rich peoples ring finger hand to pay d rent eat soon. N you can be proud about how successful republicans are over d poor. Cuz that’s what’s coming. Then d child snatching n asking for ransoms then d just snatching the rich n stealing thier organs. After using then as sex slaves. Cuz they don’t have no money to eat so they create own economy of eating others. It’s coming. Mark my words.
This is just terrible,there are poor and disabled people out there that need help. Lets not forget that Red states overwhelming on SNAP, take a look at Kentucky,Mississippi,Louisiana etc data, the facts are out there.
100% more republicans than democrats would be harmed if snap were eliminated or reduced.
Kentuckians cared more about regulating vagina than getting clean, frack free drinking water.
Why else do you think those backwoods religitards voted to keep an 80 year old fossil instead of a progressive Air Force veteran?
Since when do republicans care about facts?
Fascism.
It's already bad enough to have to find a crappy job on your own - merely to survive.
And the GOP now wants to make things even more difficult?
..Fascism.
Not our problem that own you
@@OGCHUCK1 it actually IS everyones problem
@@OGCHUCK1 it's our problem
Just an FYI...I'm a 54 year old single disabled male and I get $19 a month for food assistance. So the avg $195 you have listed looks like striking it rich in my eyes. I've had to sacrifice fresh fruits and vegetables just this month with the post-covid cuts.
Under Trump and during the pandemic, SNAP paid up to $500 monthly for single, able, unemployed. It was the first time in my 60+ years I didn't have to rely on the Clearance bin to cover food costs. There is something really wrong in how food gets used by politicians in the US.
@@anpdm1 ya the COVID money helped a lot. I wouldn't mind giving it up if food prices also went back to pre-covid. Unfortunately they keep getting ridiculous markups and I get canned fruits and vegetables.
@bfree 2 b me hi, I am a single female, disabled and I receive, you may need to sit down for this, a whopping $23.00 a month! Lobster and filet mignon every night!
@@anpdm1 that is not true! I never received anything like that. EVER! During the entire pandemic. I receive $23 a month on SNAP. I am single, disabled. My only food assistance options are food banks and dry beans, rice and bruised/rotten fruit & vegetables. Great America!
@@anpdm1 The amount an individual receives is based on many factors of that individual. Stop trying to make tRump out like he is some helping hand when he had nothing to do with anything.
the greatest misconception of our system is that it rewards work. THe only thing it rewards is the ability to make your money work to make more money.
That is the GOP platform pretty nicely stated.
The government bails out banks but can't give subsidies to agriculture to stabilize food prices (price freezes) on essential goods during the hyperinflation we're still in. Make it make sense. Because the legislation was proposed but look who told you no.
They need to revisit this. I was offered only $14 a month!!!
only *hate* and *pain* for these monsters.
Or in other words, screwing over half their base. It never ceases to amaze me how many Americans vote against their own interests.
They will still vote for then even if they cut SSI or not adjust the savings limit to meet inflation.
@@zumatoobs "Yeah but"
Their parents voted Republican and they know nothing else, even if it destroys them.
@@LinkRocks Yawn
Dude that guy who introduced this bill ...
I happily trade places with you just one month see if you can pay all my bills example;
Your stupid
Insurance obligations ,
Car payments ,
High prices Rent ,
High-priced foods ,
High prices on gas , high prices on clothing ,
High prices on PROPIETY
TAXES !!
AND KIDS FOOD !!
ONE MONTH ??
COME ON WHA' RU SAY
BUDDY ???
OLD BUDDY MY PAL ???
Cut oil subsidies. So you are 55 and no one hires you so do you just go hungry?
Yep....I saw the writing on the wall, way back in the 80s ....the rich do not want us to go hungry....they want us DEAD!
@@deeanthony7713 they want us teetering on the edge, makes it easier to fill those starvation wage jobs.
Yes, they especially enjoy it when they have already extracted all the wealth they can from the suffering. Sadist is the technical term.
I can tell you that when I was 53 and was working as a rod-buster, (iron worker) I herniated a disk and had to go on disability, but if I hadn’t been able to qualify (and most don’t or have a lot of difficulty getting qualified) I’d have hated having to try to work in my condition!
P. S. I’d like to know what makes Ana think that if a Republican sponsored bill reached the president’s desk, he’d veto it. Really? I’m not convinced!!!
He would.Dems are in a stronger position to veto it. Why give GQP a victory and do something totaly against their agenda. Biden should see tacking left a bit has energized n helped dems. Also being anti Trump and anti rt wing extremist.
@@larryforbes6718~ nevertheless, I’m still not convinced.
How's the bill get past the democratic majority senate?
@@screenarts~ my comment was based on the supposition that Ana had made, which was that it somehow managed to clear that hurdle.
One wonders what's the point of the war on the poor could it be depopulation? It doesn't appear that they are not concerned with any aspect of their lives. It's a quiet war but if they ever get more power it's going to get really loud!
In the end, snap benefits Walmart, Kroger, all the big grocery stores. I doubt the Republicans really want to piss those big donors off.
Exactly.
This is like a playbook of the 1980s.
I'm 69, live in Oklahoma. After my social security raise, my snap was reduced from $33.00
per month to $23.00 per month. Our numbers don't even come close. Only me in household.
Brother, I'm a native Texan but was raised in Nevada, Utah and Idaho,I'm also retired/disabled .... I was actually living and working in a construction company up in Iowa when Suffered my stroke and 3 heart attacks a few yrs ago while visiting my family in Texas , I've never been in trouble with the law ever in my life , never even got a simple traffic or parking ticket in my life , but everything went to hell that instant i suffered my stroke... Took them a while to disabled me , they finally did , got my money which i mostly already owed ... But mentally i was messed up , never got any support from no one and from making over 120k a year i ended up sleeping in a park on a wheelchair 1 block away from the USA/México international , back then i was mentally messed up that's why I ended up on the streets ... My back then wife and 19 yrs old daughter straight out told me i was worth more to them if I died cause they'll be getting my check,.... Within time met a few friends down by the international bridge who live in Mexico and one day a friend of mine invited me to stay over his home , so i would clean up and that he would cook a real homemade hot meal for me .... Tell you what brother .... Since then I've been down here in Mexico , for once as you know , it's impossible to live a decent life for us disabled persons up there , rent , groceries, water bill , electric bill , mortgage for some rent for others, plus gas , licences, insurance, keeping your car mechanically in tune , clothing , footwear, MEDICINE!!! etc etc ITS IMPOSSIBLE FOR US DISABLED PERSONS TO LIVE A DECENT LIFE UP THERE ....in Mexico, fully furnished apartment water,electric,gas , internet bill included ... It's not a luxurious apartment,but you're right in the middle of downtown and I'm right between the 2 international Bridges we have in this border , they're like 4 blocks from each other , it's a 2nd story apartment with a 3rd floor scenic view to the Rio Grande which is 2 blocks away ...and i only pay $300 bucks a month bills and shores like laundry and shores included !! Y'all retiree's should really consider moving down here like me and just enjoy the rest of our lives in an awesome place !! ✌🏻💚✌🏻
@@robertrodz9112 Sounds idea. A good place for folk in similar situations to come and pool resources. I would thrive in that environment. Glad you're there.
Now sad reality is most people aren't even shocked by this anymore. That's the truth of America
I've just retired at 52 and I cannot imagine working till 70 😱
Didn't JESUS say feed the poor!!!
Jesus emphasized community building in his teachings and one of those tenets is to look after your fellow man. The happiest communities are those who embrace and help their denizens.
The future trickle-down promised us
I am on disability which means extremely fixed income of just over 1K a month. Know how much SNAP I get? A whole $20 a month. With the spike in food prices, that doesn't go very far.
Twenty dollars a month? I couldn't afford food on twenty dollars a week.
If you are on SS Disability, you should be receiving much more than that very low number for SNAP.
I highly suggest contacting your local free/ pro bono law services places and have them look into this. They have specific departments for ssi/SSD and the disabled.
@@erinaustin2157 I live in a tiny town in eastern Oregon. I don't think there's a legal aid office within 200 miles. It sucks. When I inquired about why it was so low, the condescending receptionist replied that "food stamps aren't there as your primary source of food". REALLY? If folks like myself had lots of spare cash lying around to purchase our food primarily out of our own pockets, we wouldn't be asking for help in the first place. It drives me crazy when I see/hear these right wingers spouting off about how people on SNAP are all supposedly living high on the hog... eating steak and lobster every day at taxpayer expense. One time I remember a few years ago one was railing about how we must not REALLY be poor if we have TV, microwave, coffee pot and (oh the luxury *sarcasm* is mine here)... a refrigerator. Smug, conceited, arrogant Stewart Varney on Fox. (I was waiting in line to pay for my fuel at a gas station and it was on. I don't even have TV and if I did, it would NEVER be tuned in to Fox.)
@@TonyM1961 Put your county name, then the words social services, and then the words legal services all together into Google. The info is easier to find this way. There should be a page that comes up with info on places to call. Most places will do a teleconference with you.
Ignore there negative response. They have other “goals” that are not in your best interest.
@@TonyM1961 why did u change your username
Being as cruel as possible, is the Republican playbook, it always has been
Oh really? Why didn’t Obama change SNAP benefits then when he had two entire terms to do it? 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Y
@@tioswift3676 ask him
Our government is sick!
Snap was created during the great depression by the government. And now they are destroying the very thing that they created, so they can keep the poor poor when it's the rich people of the stock market and the banks hid something was wrong before it was officially the great depression.
Does the GOP realize that many of their voters are on food stamps? I wonder how do the GOP voters on food stamps feel about this? You know the ones in W. Virginia, Kentucky, Mississippi
You underestimate just how ass backward dumb Southern Republican voters are.
@@BloodDracolich Oh
@@BloodDracolich The Republicans are dumb all over.
@@leilanigreenwood5064 Imagined if slugs can vote, and they keep voting for salt.
Don't worry they will still find a way to blame the Democrats and all others they believe are their enemies.
Lost billions in a bank failure? No problem! We'll bail you out!! Need yet another tax loophole for that next yacht? No problem. Need food because you are poor? WHAT? We can't afford that!! Folks, that is the problem in this nation. Our priorities are all about making the rich richer while everyone else struggles.
Our politicians have the power to eliminate poverty, it's not among their priorities.
@@scifirealism5943 I agree.
@@jwbjpb1338 yes. I'll make a video on it.
Again we just throw marginalize people under the bus. And then back over them 😡😡😡
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$2.16 per meal on snap. Most people would be embarrassed to only tip $2.16 on a meal.
Anything they can do to take more away from those who need it most.
The work requirements are for anyone who is not really sick.
These work requirements are for the state to send people to work in the absolute worst jobs for no money
And like where I am it takes two and a half hours to drive to the welfare office and you are required mandated to drive to the welfare office every morning and check in and then they tell you where you have to go to work and then after 6 hours you have to drive back to the welfare office and check out
And very quickly what you realize is for the $50 a month in food stamps that you get you have to spend $50 a day to drive to your mandatory work site and to the welfare office and back and forth twice in a day
And so you quickly don't ask for benefits because it will cost you so much money it's insane and no one would ever do that and they say look how great we are that we incentivized people to go to work and now they have signed the waiver that they don't want food
Our plan works
It's like if you attach electrodes to the genitals of people who are doing something you don't want them to end you say you just have to crank the generator 50 times to get what you want and the people say nevermind I don't need whatever it was that they were asking for and you say
See they really didn't want it they really didn't need it and I'm a genius for creating this program that gets them off whatever it was that they were wanting
It's like when the Germans created the work camps because they didn't want Jewish people in their country and the Jewish people left rather than go to the camps
It's just like that
Exactly.
There's always money for bombs and war, but none for our citizens in need. Our priorities as a nation are unfortunately skewed.
Correct.
What are the republican/GOP representatives actually doing to assist the low income...?
Nothing. Better use your boot straps
They will never help anyone below their own income level.
Nothing
Nothing.
When I was on SNAP, it was because I COULDN'T FIND A JOB.
Are you relying on logic? These are republicans we're talking about here.
AND YET THE REPUBLICANS WANT TO MAKE YOU HAVE KIDS!!! AND NOT ALLOW YOU TO GET THE HELP YOU MAY NEED TO FEED THEM!!! 😡😡😡
No one is "making" you have children and if you cannot afford to feed them, don't have them
I can be of the opinion that SNAP benefits should just be universal...
With that said, it would likely mean raising taxes on me... Which may not be a big deal if I get more back in SNAP benefits..
You wouldn't get more back.
I wouldn’t be opposed to a work requirement if the benefits weren’t a joke. What’s $300 a month doing for these people? Rice and beans? I have an idea: if I’m working for SNAP, pay me in living terms - $2,000 month.
Then we should raise the minimum wage much higher the CEO’s of these companies can take a salary cut.
Yep i agree that this is way to chip away little by little till its all gone.
It's true..snap will give you food and insurance,if your homeless, but even for those ppl,cash from snap will make you jump threw all kinds of hoops, FOR HOMLESS PPL!!!!!!!
Ironic that all our politicians who want to cut benefits for the poor and force the elderly to return to work after paying into their social security, their retirement fund, their entire working lives, are very wealthy. If they had to suffer for anything for one minute, all talk of these cuts would stop !!
I believe we should faze out all entitlements over time. Starting with welfare. End with social security. No more safety net. Let the people decide whom to give charity to, not government.
@@johnlasseigne7676 *Silly.*
@@SinewRending why?
Their cruelty is their point.
Snatch the food out of poor peoples' mouths .
Liberal Colorado has had a community service requirement to get snap for years . At 60 I broke my back in five places and seven ribs . I still had to do community service to get snap . So I worked at the food bank and habitat for humanity . I have no complaints . I felt like I was earning the benefit and helping out my community at the same time . Plus I could get a lot of perfectly good food that the food bank routinely throws out . What was inedible I fed to my chickens .
While it's good it worked out for you, what if you couldn't even do that? Would it be right to let people starve? I'm all for encouraging people to do something that makes them feel useful, but not if it puts you in danger, if you're physically unable to work, and therefore in danger of having no ability to get food!
Cruelty is the Republican party middle name..
They wont even raise the minimum wage where I live, it's still $8.25 an hour. You have to work two full time jobs just to make it on that kind of pay.
Wow
"Keep them dumb and under our thumb."
Republican motto for 2024
@@zumatoobs Yes. Biden doesn't encourage his supporters to saturate themselves in Kool-Aid. Comrade
@@zumatoobs "There isn’t really an upside to Trump.” - Tucker Carlson
@@zumatoobs He just named one. You are just too delusional to see it
@@zumatoobs "Biden doesn't encourage his supporters to saturate themselves in Kool-Aid." This is an upside- please go back to your circus. 🎪🤡🤡