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.
BUt… but… he doesn’t believe in welfare! how dare you intrude onto his lack of belief!
(/s. this guy can fuck off to the nether.)
I keep hearing that violence isn’t the answer but I swear it feels like… FOR LEGAL REASONS THIS IS SATIRE
REASONS THIS IS SATIRE
You reminded me of: https://youtu.be/eg3_kUaYFJA
This is what I think we should do. Also this is satire.
I had no idea he died
Yeah I know a real tragedy. Died trying suck his own dick. He will be missed.
So he graped himself in the mouth…
What are we supposed to do when our leaders and the wealthy (i.e., a small minority who holds all of the influence) have effectively declared war on the rest of us (i.e., almost everybody)?
No no no, violence can be the answer, depending on what the question is. Like this:
Historically, what happens when the poorest citizens of a nation have no food, no homes, and no hope for the future, because the rich are hording it all?
Violence isn’t the answer. It is a question and the answer is, ‘yes’.
Republicans get off on dead children. It’s as simple as that.
John Wayne Gacy would be proud.
Kinky.
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.
My take is more that such types won’t let silly things like the wellbeing of people get in the way of their religion and politics.
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…
“I don’t believe in welfare”
Feck off and stop accepting federal funding, you fucking welfare queen
I love the DON’T BELIEVE statements. I don’t believe in guns, yet they exist.
Fucker believes in welfare when it’s called corn subsidies.
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?
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.
Exactly right. Corporate welfare.
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.
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!
They’d hate that too. Then GOP hates the word “subsidy” when it’s associated with something they don’t like. Example: subsidies for transitioning to green technology.
Maybe they need to frame it as a subsidy for grocery stores and large food businesses, it just takes a temporary detour though somebodies bank account to get to the intended recipient.
It’s also amusing that such a federal policy would actually help stimulate their economy because poor people are always forced to spend all their money but he’s too blind in his hatred for poor people that he can’t see the economic benefits to business in his state that it would bring. Business groups should be calling for his scalp too.
So no more federal funding for Nebraska??
If he doesn’t believe in welfare, surely he doesn’t believe in government aid or subsidies
That goes for every citizen of Nebraska, and if you don’t like it vote him out!
I’m tired of this fucking pissing contest between Republicans and people that care about others
33% of Nebraska’s operating budget comes from federal grants and funding.
Definition of a welfare state right there.
I would very much appreciate if a wonk can swing in and layout all the subsidies this guy/Nebraska benefit from.
Except to our farmers. Well subsidize the shit out of them.
Or even his “holy” rich supporters.
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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).
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Dehumanizing and othering are fascist tact, leave that to the fascists.
Edit: othering isn’t, I stand corrected.
Fact: Fascists are subhuman
They have destroyed the social contract of tolerance. So i’ll “other” them as i like because they chose that.
We’re done here. Literally - they’ve destroyed the climate, the holocene extinction is happening right now and right-wing fascists the world over are responsible. We’ve debated, they lost. This is what that looks like.
They must be called to account and the only way that happens is by destroying their collective immunity.
You know, that’s a good point - othering them is us not tolerating their intolerance, and you’re on point with everything, here. I believe the flaw was with me, listing othering with dehumanization as though they were remotely equal in impact or offense.
I appreciate the discourse, thanks for contributing!
No more austerity. No more immunity. No more get out of jail free cards.
Meh, republicans aren’t people and I’m tired of pretending they are. They’re more akin to zombies I’d say.
You cut that shit out right now.
They’re reprehensible, obviously. But that doesn’t make that not human. That’s the same kind of rhetoric that leads to folks believing they could never make bad or evil choices, because “only a monster would make that choice, and I’m not a monster”.
And then you think no choice you make can be that bad, because you’re a good person after all. This is precisely the kind of train of thought that the modern-day Republicans have when they take away human rights, and you should never allow yourself to fall into this trap.
You cut that shit out right now.
It is reaping what you sow… and they are not alone.
“Reaping what you sow” is one thing, but it is never reducing our enemies to less than human. Not now, not ever.
Calling evil evil is not equally evil.
Standing up to evil is not equally evil.
Defending one’s self from violence is not equally violent.
Etc etc.
#PunchMoreNazis
None of that is the same as classifying your enemies as not human. That road leads to genocide and fascism and we are above that.
Wait til you hear about the Republican frontrunner then.
Obviously better to police the language of niche leftists on the internet though for calling evil evil though. 🙄
When people tell you who they are, believe them.
We could just villify them. They stand in the way of freedom for anyone who doesn’t want to live under a theocracy.
You certainly sound like tolerant person.
Lmao fascist enablers get the boot just the same as everyone else.
Fuck tolerating pieces of shit.
Flush them at every opportunity.
Tolerance is a social contract. RepubliQans have obliterated that. Therefore, we’re not tolerant of them.
If they would like to re-enter that contract they can not be republiQans.
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.
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.
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So… He wouldn’t mind if the government withholds any financial aid to the state from now on, right?
not like that!™
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.
“I know the governor a little bit, and he seems to be a reasonable man. He’s a man who is compassionate in conversation,” Love said. “This is out of character. So, obviously, he’s not following his heart. He’s following his politics. He’s falling victim to political posturing, and there’s no excuse for that when it comes to children.”
No, he is not reasonable or compassionate. His actions speak louder than any words he uses sounding like reason or compassion.
It sounds like his friend thinks he’s virtue signaling. I thought they were supposed to be against that. /s
“Vice signaling”
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.
