States that participate in the federal program are required to cover half of the administrative costs, which would cost Nebraska an estimated $300,000. Advocates of the program note that the administrative cost is far outweighed by the $18 million benefit, which the U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates would benefit 175,000 Nebraska children who might otherwise go hungry on some days during the summer.
Imagine being such a reprehensible monster that you’d let 175k children in your state starve rather than participate in a federal program that’d help feed them when school is out each summer. It’s unconscionable.
It’s unconscionable
It’s conservative.
Remember, Republicans only care about fetuses. They don’t care about babies and kids.
The birthed children need to starve so they can be told they’re starving because of democrats.
Every farmer in that state receives welfare. Every fucking farmer benefits from agricultural subsidies.
The governor believes in federal welfare, just not welfare that directly benefits kids.
He doesn’t believe in welfare… I see. But what about this welfare?
Pork processor partially owned by Pillen gets $25 million federal grant
Or what about the time he got got $7.8M in pandemic loans and only paid back 2/3 of it. The rest was forgiven. What about the hundreds of thousands he takes every year in federal subsidies? He seems to like that kind of welfare.
Don’t look for any moral center for these crooks. As you’ve shown, they are complete and utter hypocrites. He condemns “welfare” because it gets him votes, while he gladly uses taxpayer money to fund himself and his wealthy campaign contributors. It’s the GOP long con.
“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” Projection as always…
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Loophole: Poor people must change their name to corn
“Why are they Falling Away from Me?”
I think the best course of action would be to reframe their thinking, instead of allowing things to keep in being called subsidies, force them to try to clarify the difference between a subsidy and welfare. Ie, farming subsidy? You mean farming welfare. Banking subsidy? You mean banking welfare. Did you know that Boeing Corp has received $15 Billion in subsidies not paid back? You mean $15 Billion in welfare, they in fact, received nearly $75 Billion in welfare, most of that welfare being received since 2000, and of that ~$75 Billion in welfare received, they actually paid back ~$60 Billion. So they received $15 Billion dollars in welfare from the US taxpayers. They are by no means the sole corporate beneficiary of welfare from the taxpayers, just the first one I stumbled upon. Point being, force the language to reflect what they hate so their hypocrisy can be exposed and other people’s eyes can be opened. Most people don’t know exactly what a subsidy is, they think there is some sort of justification for it that makes it beyond criticizing, a subsidy is just welfare for corporations or farms to keep them in business, we want them in business, sure, but we also want kids to be able to eat over the summer, and if farms and Boeing and banks are deserving of welfare from the government, and hence from the US taxpayers, why aren’t kids?
Exactly right. Corporate welfare.
Because kids aren’t lining their pockets with cash.
This is for their voters too, we need to target those who vote for them and those who don’t to try and make a difference. They do this shit because they know their base doesn’t care so we need to make that base as small as possible to topple this bullshit.
But he’s okay with PPP loans being forgiven and also gets USDA subsidies for Pillen Family farms. Source: https://projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/bailouts/search?q=Pillen&v=1 Source:https://farm.ewg.org/persondetail.php?custnumber=A09760551
Those entitled brats made a deal with the devil when they took the money. Greed got the better of them. It always does.
Except to our farmers. Well subsidize the shit out of them.
Or even his “holy” rich supporters.
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maybe if we called it a ‘subsidy’. ha
subsidies for very profitable corporations: a-ok ! tax cuts for people with more money than they could ever actually spend: you betcha! the welfare jobs program we call ‘the united states military’: ha, no reductons there, ever!
human beings who need to eat food: go fuck yourself
the lack of empathy in the republican party is so stark its hard to fathom.
Just need to get those little tykes their own LLCs and then they can have their lawyers file for federal aid!
So he is not a christian?
He is like Trump. He’ll pretend to be whatever you want to believe as long as you give him money. Then he’ll rape your kids.
And then quote the Bible afterwards and parents send the kids back for another round
Not before putting you on your knee for the utmost important expression of apologies and regret.
And give a tax break or something to some multi million <enter choice of currency here> business.
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He’s Christian by name only. It’s not exactly a nice and tidy acronym but I call these types C.U.N.T.S.
Ohh, so when I say, “I don’t believe in god” and you still force your Christian morality on me that’s OK. When you “don’t believe” in a real tangible thing that helps countless numbers of people you can just hand wave that away.
Good to know the douche bag demographic is still overly represented in every facet of American life.
When these jerks talk about “freedom”, they don’t mean it in the sense that normal people think about it. Normal people think freedom means that I, as a free citizen in a secular nation, can ignore the xtian cult’s demands on what I’m required to do if I so wish, but governments (local and federal) may seek to provide services for their citizens.
For them, “freedom” means they get to dictate that everyone bend the knee to their little book club and other people’s kids starve so that taxes are as low as possible (for the rich - regressive taxes on the poor and middle class can be high AF).
So he pays for his campaign out of his own pocket? He doesn’t collect donations. Surely.
I bet he considers them investments.
Welfare is an investment too, however, and a damn good one.
But that requires you to recognize everyone’s life valuable.
So… He wouldn’t mind if the government withholds any financial aid to the state from now on, right?
not like that!™
The sadder part of this is that $40 can hardly feed anyone for a week, and that’s if you REALY stretch it on bulk rice and beans.
It’s worse than that.
It’s $40/month, and only for the 3 months of summer to make up for impoverished children not getting meals through school during the summer.
These people are ghouls.
And its only administrative costs: the federal government would be paying for the program. He doesn’t want to pay for someone to coordinate and do the paperwork for someone else to feed his state’s disadvantaged program. He doesn’t want to pay for someone to run a program to bring like 50 times the spending into his state
That would be a more interesting headline: Nebraska governor doesn’t want to pay 1 million to get children 50 million worth of federal food grant.
If you don’t believe in a problem, it simply goes away /s
“I don’t believe in welfare,” he says.
The rich get bailouts, the poor get welfare
Not in the USA. The rich get both. The poor get nothing.
As Chomsky puts it, when it comes to “tough love”, the rich get all the love and everyone else gets the “tough” part.
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The way that he is opting out is by refusing to spend the ~$300k that is the federal government’s requirement to be part of the grant program. I wonder if it would be possible to do an end run around that waste of oxygen, and have a charity raise the ~$300k and accept the $18m the federal government is offering, to be distributed by the charity instead…
