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you deserve the love you keep trying to give everyone else
So the USA is trying to starve its poor to death. Not even an exaggeration.
The SNAP program is getting some work requirements applied again which are expected to leave up to (or more than) a MILLION people without benefits. Of these people, 97% are at OR BELOW the poverty line.
And the only way to “earn” your benefits - the way to “prove” that you don’t “deserve” to starve to death - is to work 20 hours per week, or 80 per month.
Either pull a job out of your ass (earn your paycheck AND qualify for food assistance), OR participate in 80 hours of UNPAID labor (PLUS the expense and time of transportation to and from a set, unflexible location).
And after working 80 hours (plus paying money you don’t have for transportation to get to the designated “program” location/s) for the state to “prove” you don’t deserve to die, you get… are you ready?
I’m gonna use the Florida figures, because that’s what I was reading up on.
Less than $200 in food assistance. The average is actually less than 150.
Care to do the math?
$150 for 80 hours.
$1.88 per hour.
The USA is a fucking dystopia.
What the ever living fuck.
@fullten @lady-feral I…what
Yeah, I was hit with this. We’re okay right now since we’re staying with family, though feeding us puts a strain on them as well.
I make some internet money that works out to about 125 a week so if I wanna keep getting my food assistance I have to itemize that so it qualifies as a 20 hour a week job, which it probably does, but it’s ridiculous that anyone has to do this and most people under the poverty line will not be able to.
I HAVE had real jobs. I’ve had enough real jobs that the taxes taken out of my own past paychecks already cover all the food assistance I’ve used and plenty to come. I have already paid for this food myself.
And every day a politician somewhere in this country wastes enough money to feed our entire fucking population.
I WANNA ADD SOMETHING IMPORTANT for anyone who thinks they might need to sign up for food assistance, cause a few people just asked me some stuff about it.
In your interviews and applications, they are going to ask “do you ever eat with other people.”
This is a trick question.
You’re gonna probably think “well, technically, yeah, I had lunch with my friend last week…my mom made me a dinner….”
STOP
Answer NO. Always always answer NO. This question is designed to weed people out. If you admit to literally ever sharing a meal with another human being, that actually allows them to deny or alter your benefit amount. Even though this is legally referred to as “supplemental” food assistance and it isn’t enough to live on by itself, Republicans already don’t want anyone to have even that, and they want to consider it “fraud” if you both receive food assistance and EVER share food with another person, whether you’ve used your benefits to buy ingredients for someone’s birthday dinner or your mom made you a casserole one visit.
The correct thing to say when asked these questions is “I purchase and prepare my own food” or “we eat separately.” Even if you’ve already told them you live with family or a roommate.
Remember: Republicans don’t even want assistance recipients to be able to buy “luxury” items like fucking pasta sauce. They would limit you to nothing but gruel if they could. They’ve fought and pushed to load the benefit process with “tricks” and catch-22′s like these to treat as wide a range of people they can as lazy fraudsters and moochers.
Hey @fullten , this is some super important information from bogleech here. Sorry to bother you to post it again but I think this might save some people some pain in the future to see this.
They’re doing this in Australia now with work-for-the-dole. I’ll put up a link tomorrow.
They tried to put me on work for the dole when I was studying full time and applying for a required 20 jobs p/f because apparently it wasn’t enough hours to be “earning” my $297 per fortnight. Luckily I had a really kind case manager at that point and she bent the rules because I had burst into tears when she told me.
They do this somewhat in the UK. Our PM tried to pass through a law saying that people on benefits should do unpaid, voluntary work. For less than minimum wage. Not only did this not actually improve people’s situation (if you’re working you need to pay transport, you need to eat more, you may need childcare) but it meant that companies, who already don’t pay enough tax, are basically getting paid to take on benefits recipients instead of actually hiring people for a decent wage. I’m currently on a kind of disability benefit because I can’t work full time. I had surgery six days ago and my advisor told me to look for jobs this weekend. The government doesn’t want to help people. If they did, they’d stop forcing the most disadvantaged people from working to death and they’d make corporations like Vodafone pay their fucking taxes.
if you’re a man, i’m not interested in hearing your critiques on how superficial and obsessed women are with beauty. discuss instead how patriarchy created a society that resulted in women placing their entire self-worth on their appearances and how you, as a man, can change a culture that produces that.
THIS HOLY SHIT
What will it take to get this message across? Spread this like wildfire please.
I, a cold and callous millennial, have no interest in face to face conversations, because i am constantl jacked into the information supersoupway, i ride the pale lightning, my body is a conduit for an unending stream of html
Tonight please pray for all the innocent lives that will be lost in Syria due to the airstrike decision which has been agreed upon.
So everyone is clear: The civilians have no escape. The innocent people cannot get out. Governments told them to evacuate or they will die. The ISIL militants have said they will kill every person who leaves their house.
There IS no escape for these people, and the government will try to claim they gave ‘fair warning’ to the civilians and will try to claim all casualties must therefore be ISIL members or too stubborn. This is a war crime, this is murder, and there is no chance for these innocent people who want no part in this to escape.
Please, please pray for them tonight or send positive vibes or whatever you do, please do not forget these are innocent people who have done nothing wrong and just wanted to live their lives.
different kinds of tired:
1. all day at the beach sleepy. warm skin. wet hair. salt and sand and green apple-scented shampoo. bed sheet tides pulling up and down stomach flips into mermaid dreams.
2. milky tired. early nights. wondering if you are getting sick. medicine light bones. eyelids melting closed. dizzy, dizzy, spinning into sleep.
3. drowsy car rides. soft radio buzz. pillow on the window. pulling on your seatbelt. waking up and not knowing where you are.
don’t stare at the moon too long or else you’ll remember that nothing in this stupid fucking world makes sense
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
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Richard Mosse Taking Tiger Mountain, 2011
Adolf Hitler rose to power by promising to fix Germany and return it back to the powerful land it once was before the First World War, blaming Jews, primarily, for the downfall of their nation.
Donald Trump is rising to power by promising to fix America (‘Make America Great Again’) and return it back to the powerful land it once was, blaming Latinx and Chinese people for the downfall of the nation.
Hm.
Not to mention that Donald Trump said all Muslims should have to wear visible identification cards. Gee, what does that remind you of??
also suggested the forced closure of all mosques. he’s seriously proposing some fascist shit
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