State proposes work requirement for food stamps

[La Li Lu Le Lo]

http://money.msn.com/business-news/article.aspx?feed=AP&date=20140804&id=17830928&gt1=33009&ocid=ansmony11
 
Every state should do this.

 

[signals]

The flaw to this is that thanks to Obama, many working middle class Americans are receiving food stamps to make ends meet.

 

[La Li Lu Le Lo]

The flaw to this is that thanks to Obama, many working middle class Americans are receiving food stamps to make ends meet.

Where is the flaw? 
 
Under this law they would be qualified. 

 

[777 fixer]

Food stamps seem to be a big issue with you.  Here's a news flash.  Most people who are on SNAP are either working, are children or elderly.  If you had bothered to look up those facts instead of relying on talk radio you would have known that.
 
There are other things IMO that you should be more worried/mad about than food stamps.  How about the F-35 program which is $163 billion over budget?  Or the Navy LCS which is also over budget and was rejected by Israel over concerns about it's ability to defend itself.  And I won't even start on the trillion dollars spent on Iraq.

 

[delldude]

Food stamps seem to be a big issue with you.  Here's a news flash.  Most people who are on SNAP are either working, are children or elderly.  If you had bothered to look up those facts instead of relying on talk radio you would have known that.
 
 

 
You fail to mention that each state sets up the income/asset test to qualify. And many in many states have loads of cash and several vehicles and or homes that qualify. That is not what the program was intended for. More getting over than actually need the help.
 
Bill Clinton signed into law work requirements for public assistance which Obama erased early in his first term.
 
And in this day and age of high tech warfare, one can get his asss handed to him rather quickly when out of the tech loop very long.

 

[PHXConx]

Food stamps seem to be a big issue with you.  Here's a news flash.  Most people who are on SNAP are either working, are children or elderly.  If you had bothered to look up those facts instead of relying on talk radio you would have known that.
 
There are other things IMO that you should be more worried/mad about than food stamps.  How about the F-35 program which is $163 billion over budget?  Or the Navy LCS which is also over budget and was rejected by Israel over concerns about it's ability to defend itself.  And I won't even start on the trillion dollars spent on Iraq.

 
and we are supposed to just take your word for it... 
 
I have no problems cutting defense, lets start with our involvement in NATO, 

 

[PHXConx]

 
You fail to mention that each state sets up the income/asset test to qualify. And many in many states have loads of cash and several vehicles and or homes that qualify. That is not what the program was intended for. More getting over than actually need the help.
 
Bill Clinton signed into law work requirements for public assistance which Obama erased early in his first term.
 
And in this day and age of high tech warfare, one can get his asss handed to him rather quickly when out of the tech loop very long.

bill clinton vetoed welfare reform twice before he reluctantly signed it before the democrats convention

 

[PHXConx]

The flaw to this is that thanks to Obama, many working middle class Americans are receiving food stamps to make ends meet.

I thought that was the point of foodstamps???

 

[SparrowHawk]

http://money.msn.com/business-news/article.aspx?feed=AP&date=20140804&id=17830928&gt1=33009&ocid=ansmony11
 
Every state should do this.

Every state should have slaves? Didn't we settle that issue in 1865?
 
A work requirement is nothing more then the tyranny of the Nanny State. The proper role of government is to preserve Liberty. Confiscating wages to redistribute to others based on some arbitrary criteria of a social service agency is wrong. Just as enslaving people against their wishes in order to get the government handout is equally wrong.
 
You don't promote American Ideals by engaging in Un-American activities.

 

[Glenn Quagmire]

I wonder if fa la Li Lo it da would have accepted the free retraining subsidy if he had to do work for the government in order to receive it?

 

[delldude]

I wonder if fa la Li Lo it da would have accepted the free retraining subsidy if he had to work for the government while receiving it?

 
Define free training subsidies.

 

[SparrowHawk]

If someone's wages were confiscated by the IRS, then the training isn't free. The payer is different and confiscation is not compassion

 

[southwind]

So when do they start drug testing SNAP card recipients?

 

[La Li Lu Le Lo]

Every state should have slaves? Didn't we settle that issue in 1865?
 
A work requirement is nothing more then the tyranny of the Nanny State. The proper role of government is to preserve Liberty. Confiscating wages to redistribute to others based on some arbitrary criteria of a social service agency is wrong. Just as enslaving people against their wishes in order to get the government handout is equally wrong.
 
You don't promote American Ideals by engaging in Un-American activities.

Forcing taxpayers to support people who refuse to support themselves in exchange for votes is slavery.
 
Having people contribute to earn what they get is right.
 
If they don't like it they can get a damn job. 
 
I am all for helping the working poor. I am NOT for helping the stagnant and lazy.

 

[La Li Lu Le Lo]

I wonder if fa la Li Lo it da would have accepted the free retraining subsidy if he had to do work for the government in order to receive it?

I only saw this because delldude quoted you.
 
Who said anything about working for the government? They said a WORK REQUIREMENT, as in you're not going to sit on your ass and collect welfare. They will SUBSIDIZE you, not SUPPORT you.