What’s happening with food stamps in the US?

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If what you say is true, why were the files not released under Biden Harris?

If what you say is true, why were the files not released under Biden Harris?

There are some crazy beliefs around. Prosperity gospel preaches that wealth is God's will, the implication of which being that poor people must be bad. In the US these days Jesus would be denounced as a "commie" for his dangerous teachings like loving thy neighbour.

Yes but at least the democrats (and, to their credit, some republicans) want to see the files released.

I'm pretty confident Trump has been involved in some of the more heinous crimes, though. It's hard to explain away things like the FBI questioning Epstien on whether he had "socialized" with Trump and underage girls, Trump's extraordinary intervention with Ghislaine Maxwell (and moving her to a cushy prison) and general attempts at concealment, plus the court claims filed (with supportive witness statements) - then dropped, seemingly under some pressure - re. his alleged forcible rape of a minor.

Obviously there are others who are under real suspicion, but the strongest evidence of guilt seems to be in relation to Trump.

So ban abortion but then take away the means to raise the children.

I’m shocked at the US Christians supporting this. In the UK most food banks are ran out of churches. Don’t they have the same Christian spirt in the states

Calm down its all been sorted.

Calm down its all been sorted.

Surely it doesn’t affect uk folk, I’ve a daily battle with Parkinson’s, why trouble me with this?

The Epstein files are just a sideshow. The actual battle is over the affordable healthcare act. There are currently government subsidies to make it possible for people to afford to buy the now required health insurance on the open market. The republicans want to stop those subsidies. The democrats want them to continue. Without the subsidies, health insurance will become completely unaffordable and people will just have to pay the small annual fine for being uninsured instead.

They will then leave illnesses untreated until it becomes an emergency. At that point hospitals are required to treat them enough to stabilize them regardless of ability to pay. Hospitals will then pass the cost of treating those patients on to the patients who are paying. Thus those of us who do pay for our healthcare will have to pay even more.

since they can’t agree on a budget, the government shuts down and essentially everyone except the elected officials responsible for the mess don’t get paid. Essentials workers like air traffic controllers and military still have to show up to work without a paycheck. So they have the expenses of working like childcare and transportation, but no money coming in.

republicans control both the house and senate. They could push through the budget. They could authorize food stamp spending. They don’t want to take responsibility.

right now they are holding the poor hostage in a way. We can give them healthcare or food.

Either choice has a massive impact on the economy as a whole. Food stamps spending not entering the economy is going to hurt all of us and disrupt the supply chain in general.

Republicabs are voting to go ahead with the budget they want, removing health care subsidies and other things. Of course they’re voting for that.
The democrats won’t agree to that budget. Of course their voting won’t.

if republicans really wanted to open back up then they’d go back to the budget and findnve healthcare subsidies. Why should the democrats back down when, in the long run, what they want is worth the short term pain as it’s better for the country overall.

Is this something that could happen every single year?

Because unless you want children starving out on the streets (through no fault of their own, they didn't ask to be born) then you give their parents money and hope they get fed. If you're saying you'd rather kids go hungry so their idiotic parents can't brag about whatever money they receive on social media then there's no hope for you.
And be careful out there. I saw something so ridiculous I didn't believe it, and after reverse searching the image used in the article concluded it was fake and just rage bait. The same picture came up on another four articles along the same lines, looked like it was taken in the 2000s, and there were no other results. People do make shit up.

Im all for the snap if used in the right way the same as i feel with UK benefits.
But for what ive seen women are going crazy over it.
Saying its the tax payers responsibility to feed their kid.
One saying she has 7 kids with 7 dads another with 5 kids why did they have more kids when they knew they was struggling in the first place.
Openly saying they scam the system.

I didnt help make any kids they choose to lay down so why should tax payers have to pay for them and fund them.

Nobody got paid - not even active duty military. Then that money got magicked up, so active duty got paid, but civilian contractors didn’t.
The medical centre in our USAF base is in shambles. The only services available at the moment are “essential services” - so emergency room & labour and delivery basically. The pharmacy is rationing medications because there’s no budget for them to be able to restock. I’m on my last pack of mine and can’t order my repeat prescription because they haven’t got it. The way health insurance works for military folk here, is you are either on Tricare Prime or Tricare Select. Prime is free for active duty servicemen and their dependants, but you have to be seen on base. Select has an out-of-pocket fee but you get to choose where you get care as long as the doctor you choose is in Network, but obviously most of those doctors now don’t want to see Tricare patients because when they go to make the insurance claim to Tricare to get paid, theirs no budget allocated to pay for it…..so we are fucked unless we can pay out-of-pocket to see a random doctor off base (which most of us can’t especially right now!)

Did you get paid, @WhatIsTheCharge? I thought for sure we wouldn't this month, but we got it yesterday. Not the full amount but almost.

This.

Theres been a fair few Americans recently who I’ve told about our impending move back, and they just regurgitate the usual GB News bollocks 🫠😂
And I’m just there like: “Yeah…..universal healthcare, paid maternity leave, subsidised childcare, minimum of 25 paid days of work a year and 10 national holidays off work is soooooo oppressive” 🫠🫠😂😂😂

@Junenights I think the uk equivalent would be the Commons voting down the Budget bill, which by convention I don’t think happens, and it going to the Lords and them blocking it as well. I know that it is a constitutional convention that the Lords as an unelected chamber don’t block the elected Government’s budget, though they could debate and ask for changes. The 1909 constitutional crisis was when the Lords refused to pass Lloyd George’s budget and LG got the King to threaten to create a whole lot of new Lords to force it through. This was so shocking that the convention emerged that the Lords don’t do that any more.

@askmenow Soon women will be told to “cover up” for fear of inflaming male desires. Then we’ll know all is lost!

'She was asking for it, going out dressed like that' is old news in this country.
I'm old. I remember many court cases where women were raped and then further abused, shamed and blamed by the police, the courts and society because of their clothing. Misogyny is not a new concept.

Is there a single far right trope which you have forgotten? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I live in a deprived area of the UK, and while the UK is far from perfect it is still a relatively amazing place to live, with a social safety net and medical care free at point of use (which admittedly does not get all needs met in a timely fashion due to rationing caused by funding issues). We have a stable society, rule of law and freedom of expression. A lot of people seem to forget that, and are mainly interested in sowing hatred and division rather than tackling the problems cooperatively in a constructive mature way.

I have lived and worked in countries where a lot of these moaners would not survive two minutes without the support that a functioning non-corrupt democratic state provides. We should count our blessings rather than catastrophise and cheer when a previously stable democratic country such as the US has a major stability wobble which is being played out on the backs of the poor and government employees who (in the main) work for the common good.

@WhatIsTheCharge which country are you in?

If you are in the UK you can get a small amount of prescription medicines from a pharmacy. The brand names will be different and obviously you would have to pay.

What I can't understand is all the vitriol on X saying people shouldn't be able to buy certain things eg cookies or that they should be given a box of basic food stuff.

Well they’re already stealing here in the UK because our Government has decreed that any theft less than £200 worth of goods will NOT be prosecuted. Nobody will come to the vendors aid!

Our Police are tooooo busy arresting people for tweets considered offensive and “non hate crimes”
OMG they’ll raid your home and drag you into custody without bail if you dare offend someone on X.
Fucking shambles is our inept, corrupt prime minister, Two-tier-never-here Kier.

Go into a shop and clear the shelves into a carrier bag and walk out. Nobody will stop you.

Its the Wild West over here and civil unrest will surely ensue.
Our young people can’t get homes because the. Island is overwhelmed with migrants who are prioritised for housing above our own people.
We have become the welfare system for the worlds poor and our Government is the driving force behind the chaos. .

They bring their mediaeval attitudes to our streets so women no longer feel safe to go out. Soon women will be told to “cover up” for fear of inflaming male desires. Then we’ll know all is lost!
The UK is unrecognisable from even 10 years ago.

@WhatIsTheChargewhat do you think will happen? Who will fold