Is this true? The Food Stamp Capital of the U.S. is WHITE and REPUBLICAN

[etrigan420]

Michigan's public accommodation laws don't cover sexual orientation.

If they did, the doctor would be 100% in violation. There is no right to discriminate against people in a business open to the public.

eskimo partaking in a little Friday morning peace pipe?

 

[fskimospy]

eskimo partaking in a little Friday morning peace pipe?

Haha no, wrong thread.

 

[Blanky]

Keep gubment out my damn welfare. All them blacks and liberals ain't do nothin' much sit around all day, it's us hard-workin' patriots what make this country great. Marsha, that there damn check come in yet from welfare? I'm down to ma last can o' chew, got damnit!

 

[emperus]

Interesting comment someone posted on their site.

I’m unable to work due to loud noises and unexpected changes really freaking me out; I also have serious issues with my feet and legs.
I have tried and tried to work; unless I’m guaranteed a place to work quietly, with no interruptions and no side-bars or comments from the peanut gallery, I can’t work with other people.
SSI allows me to live with a little dignity.. I truly need it. People love messing with one another too much for someone with a social learning disability to work with them.
So.. whenever I see someone from outside of this country coming in with umpteen children, who can barely speak this language (after all, to visit France you must understand French), and cut into what so many of my fellow U.S citizens rely upon because they’re just ill-equipped to deal with people’s drama…
OK, whatever. Come into this country, take money from its citizens and add to the issues of everyone, including those who have enough problems dealing with the ultra-competitive bullshit we call a culture…
WHATEVER.

 

[dphantom]

Interesting comment someone posted on their site.


Quote:
I’m unable to work due to loud noises and unexpected changes really freaking me out; I also have serious issues with my feet and legs.
I have tried and tried to work; unless I’m guaranteed a place to work quietly, with no interruptions and no side-bars or comments from the peanut gallery, I can’t work with other people.
SSI allows me to live with a little dignity.. I truly need it. People love messing with one another too much for someone with a social learning disability to work with them.
So.. whenever I see someone from outside of this country coming in with umpteen children, who can barely speak this language (after all, to visit France you must understand French), and cut into what so many of my fellow U.S citizens rely upon because they’re just ill-equipped to deal with people’s drama…
OK, whatever. Come into this country, take money from its citizens and add to the issues of everyone, including those who have enough problems dealing with the ultra-competitive bullshit we call a culture…
WHATEVER.

a good example of someone who does not need to have SSI as well.

 

[Jhhnn]

The entire progressive movement is a collection action problem. For once how about you guys open your wallets proactively and don't wait until after you can legislatively force everyone else to first. You make it sound like you're completely incompetent and incapable of making change happen on your own. Who knows, maybe you're right.

So full of it. How does anybody paying taxes willingly force everybody else to go first?

Are they not proactively opening their wallet?

It's not like we don't have some of the lowest tax rates in the first world, particularly for very high income people. And it's not like there aren't a lot of desperately poor people in places like Owsley County, either. The whole region has been economically depressed for decades. It's not like the economy has jobs for the people elsewhere, either.

 

[Cozarkian]

It is possible to be a republican and disagree with a portion of the party platform.

Thus, unlike the wealthy Democrats that refuse to pay what they openly admit are their fair share of taxes, we don't whether the people in this story are hypocrites because we don't know their personal views on food stamps.

 

[Subyman]

Not surprising. The midwest is littered with small towns with high government support. Many of the towns in my area were huge in the 1940's during the coal boom. The towns had trolleys (like in San Francisco), 12 story brick buildings, a large residential area, large train stations, and a population of well over 80,000. Now the towns are around 7k with very little opportunity. Most of the surrounding towns are 95%+ white. Certain parts of Kentucky have long been known as the most impoverished part of the US.

Turning this into a racial thing is kind of gross.

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

Turning this into a racial thing is kind of gross.

The OP's motives are highly suspect imo.

 

[emperus]

Not surprising. The midwest is littered with small towns with high government support. Many of the towns in my area were huge in the 1940's during the coal boom. The towns had trolleys (like in San Francisco), 12 story brick buildings, a large residential area, large train stations, and a population of well over 80,000. Now the towns are around 7k with very little opportunity. Most of the surrounding towns are 95%+ white. Certain parts of Kentucky have long been known as the most impoverished part of the US.

Turning this into a racial thing is kind of gross.

I don't know your politics, so I will assume you are equally outraged at the GOP's platform in as much as the way they turn poverty into a "racial thing".

The post was clearly meant to call out the hypocrisy of those in the Republican party.

 

[piasabird]

There are more white people than black people or any other minority. So this is kind of oxymoronic. Didn't you know there are poor white folks? Maybe you live in a cardboard box in NYC.

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

I don't know your politics, so I will assume you are equally outraged at the GOP's platform in as much as the way they turn poverty into a "racial thing".

The post was clearly meant to call out the hypocrisy of those in the Republican party.

This is getting interesting. Please show me where the GOP's platform has turned poverty into a "racial thing".

 

[rudeguy]

When this topic runs its course, let's talk about why the income in Owsley County, Kentucky is so low. You know, the root cause from a political perspective?

We'd better help them before they turn into ISIS!

 

[Newell Steamer]

Ah, so just like the majority of the rich who receive business welfare subsidies.

 

[emperus]

This is getting interesting. Please show me where the GOP's platform has turned poverty into a "racial thing".

I'm not playing that game with you. Go pretend somewhere else.

 

[Subyman]

I don't know your politics, so I will assume you are equally outraged at the GOP's platform in as much as the way they turn poverty into a "racial thing".

The post was clearly meant to call out the hypocrisy of those in the Republican party.

Sure, anyone that tries to turn something into race that doesn't need to be equally gets my ire. Poverty touches every race regardless of perspective.

 

[boomerang]

We'd better help them before they turn into ISIS!

Hey, first the rest of the world and if there's anything left over we can help the citizens of our nation. Duh!

 

[boomerang]

This. Plus if progressives are going to play Santa Claus with other people's money it's somehow oddly appropriate that most of the dough is going to people who hate everything those same progressives stand for.

It's just the result of redistribution of wealth, something all card carrying progressives are for. But you know, sometimes I think they don't want it redistributed equally. Just a feeling I have...

 

[Subyman]

We'd better help them before they turn into ISIS!

Or just wait around and then bomb them.

 

[CaptainGoodnight]

I guess in your mind that would be analogous. For the rest of the thinking population, not so much.

No, in my mind it's not. Was just pointing out your fucked up line of thinking.

 

[glenn1]

Ah, so just like the majority of the rich who receive business welfare subsidies.

I'd like those ended also. Although many of them are the kinds your side clamors for, like solar power subsidies, commuter rail subsidies, heating oil for poor people subsidies, etc. Hell, when it gets right down to it food stamps is little more than a subsidy to the big food companies like Kraft and ConAgra.

 

[Jhhnn]

It is possible to be a republican and disagree with a portion of the party platform.

Thus, unlike the wealthy Democrats that refuse to pay what they openly admit are their fair share of taxes, we don't whether the people in this story are hypocrites because we don't know their personal views on food stamps.

Gawd. What a load of horseshit attribution. Which wealthy Dems "refuse" to pay taxes?

 

[CaptainGoodnight]

Gawd. What a load of horseshit attribution. Which wealthy Dems "refuse" to pay taxes?

A lot of them actually.

Charlie Rangel is a recent example.

edit: Tim Geithner

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

I'm not playing that game with you. Go pretend somewhere else.

I must have completely misunderstood your post then. My apologies.

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

A lot of them actually.

Charlie Rangel is a recent example.

Al Sharpton is having some difficulties as well it seems.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/19/n...side-nyt-region&WT.nav=inside-nyt-region&_r=0