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70% of SNAP recipients have full time jobs

70% of SNAP recipients have full time jobs

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Yah it's not a handout for lazy unemployed leeches, it's a federal subsidy for business who refuse to pay their employees enough to eat food.

https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-21-45


@wildgrass said
Yah it's not a handout for lazy unemployed leeches, it's a federal subsidy for business who refuse to pay their employees enough to eat food.

https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-21-45
And because Trump, in his BBB, refused to fund SNAP, it is now officially out of money. People are going to suffer. And I mean more than they were suffering already.


@Suzianne said
And because Trump, in his BBB, refused to fund SNAP, it is now officially out of money. People are going to suffer. And I mean more than they were suffering already.
Backwards economics.


@wildgrass said
Backwards economics.
Exactly. Policy through inaction.


@wildgrass said
Yah it's not a handout for lazy unemployed leeches, it's a federal subsidy for business who refuse to pay their employees enough to eat food.

https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-21-45
mcdonalds aint cuttin it ehh?


@Mott-The-Hoople said
mcdonalds aint cuttin it ehh?
AKA Full time employment

70% of SNAP recipients are full time employed.


@Mott-The-Hoople said
mcdonalds aint cuttin it ehh?
You tell us.

Can you feed your family by flipping burgers?

I guess you think Donald's gonna come save you.


@wildgrass said
Yah it's not a handout for lazy unemployed leeches, it's a federal subsidy for business who refuse to pay their employees enough to eat food.

https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-21-45
shocking.

would you then think that the feds should stop taxing these low wage earners?

I mean, it's one thing to not pay them enough, but quite another to steal what is theirs, ya know, buddy?


@Suzianne said
You tell us.

Can you feed your family by flipping burgers?

I guess you think Donald's gonna come save you.
Jobs like McDonald’s were never meant to be a career choice, except the manager position.

If you work at these low paying jobs for long periods it’s your fault.


@Suzianne said
You tell us.

Can you feed your family by flipping burgers?

I guess you think Donald's gonna come save you.
If I had to I would. But I would be trying to find a higher paying job in the process.


@Mott-The-Hoople said
If I had to I would. But I would be trying to find a higher paying job in the process.
A man's ambition shouldn't exceed his grasp.


@Ghost-of-a-Duke said
A man's ambition shouldn't exceed his grasp.
Sounds like a losing position


@Mott-The-Hoople said
Sounds like a losing position
No, no sir, stick to flipping those burgers. Know your station.

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@Mott-The-Hoople said
Jobs like McDonald’s were never meant to be a career choice, except the manager position.

If you work at these low paying jobs for long periods it’s your fault.
This point is irrelevant. Of course people flipping burgers want higher paying jobs. But while they are flipping burgers, short or long term, why can't they afford food?

Maybe they should just fake a disability instead? Or spend 2.years in the military and then 'retire' with benefits for life?


@Earl-of-Trumps said
shocking.

would you then think that the feds should stop taxing these low wage earners?

I mean, it's one thing to not pay them enough, but quite another to steal what is theirs, ya know, buddy?
Yes. This is a policy that Republicans are against.

Republicans want the low earners to pay the same rate as the higher ones, and they want the wealthy to pay no taxes at all. It's asinine and undoubtedly causing the current debt crisis where Republicans are currently spending on debt at $1 billion an hour.