We’re now seeing red states refusing federal aid because 1) it shows the federal government isn’t the demon they make it out to be and 2) if they don’t accept federal funds, they don’t have to accept federal stipulations like “you can’t not give this to poor gay children” and “Black children deserve to eat too.”
Dark times are ahead.
Don’t forget the “welfare queens” lies that a lot of the right believes. I know a lot of idiots that believe poor people are poor because they’re lazy.
Corporations are bigger welfare queens than poor people will ever be.
it doesnt matter how lazy they are - if poor people keep having children, they will remain poor.
Tell that to a $100,000 medical invoice that bankrupted you because you got sick.
My credit was destroyed while I was still in college and hadn’t yet built up basically any credit. My crime for having my financial future ruined for the next 7 years? I was hit by someone who turned their SUV into me because they didn’t look whether there was anyone in the crosswalk, and I was a broke college student, so I couldn’t pay for all of the medical bills.
(Tangential note: I don’t like the phrase “hit by a car”. Until cars are fully autonomous, no one ever gets hit by a car; they get hit by a person driving a car. Also, fuck that lady and her trying to get out of the $67 ticket she got for hitting me and permanently injuring my knee. “I didn’t see anybody” isn’t an excuse. Especially when that person was wearing orange. If you do that, you just didn’t look.)
Edit: Also, the US credit system is a scam designed to benefit the well off and punish those who are poorer.
Don’t know when it was, but nowadays it’s generally best to just ignore medical bills like that vs bankruptcy.
Wooooooow. Some people really out themselves as ignorant and cruel in a spectacular way.
Good things happening while a Democrat is in the Whitehouse is bad for business. If anyone ever asks the GOP why they rejected the funds it’ll be some lie about illegal immigrants getting the money.
The problem here is that the federal government didn’t provide the framework and services for states to use this federal aid - it’s up to the states to each create the new infrastructure and data collection/reporting services themselves. That’s a backwards arse way of doing it. The federal government should have created the necessary services and given the states access.
We give states way too much power when it comes to these types of policies. I grew up on the free lunch program and a lot of times it was the best meal I can get. I could never in good conscience suggest that kids don’t deserve to have free lunch and breakfast. Especially if they have to be there.
Yep, this should not have been a state decision, nor should the states have to have been the ones to try and implement it, because as this shows many can’t and/or won’t.
If the federal government was serious about providing food aid for low income children, they would do it at a federal level.
You mean like the federal government offering millions of dollars to a state to feed hungry kids? That kind of federal level? Oh wait…
No, I mean like the federal government actually making the service that is required to give the millions of dollars to a state to feed hungry kids.
The difference is huge, and not hard to understand.
The difference is huge, and not hard to understand.
Apparently it is, for you.
The federal agency is called USDA, and it’s the one that runs the P-EBT program. The service is there, ready to dole out the cash, they just need the info to best disburse the funds. The onus is on MO to work with the federal gov to communicate information about its own citizens to those services.
There’s about zero chance in hell that red states are going to allow the feds to roll in to town and pull school district information that it would need to disburse the funds. The states already have those records, and they best know how to aggregate them. They just need to <gulp> swallow their hangups about gov bureaucracy and actual spend some tax money to serve their citizens.
Again, the federal agency makes the program available but doesn’t actually build the infrastructure required for the states to use it. This very article we’re commenting on points that out a number of times.
You can shout “Republicans hate kids!” as much as you want, but aren’t republicans the ones encouraging people to have more kids and less abortions? How does that logic work?
But that would be “communism”!
No it wouldn’t, and no one would say that.
No, of course it wouldn’t, but you really haven’t been paying attention to American politics if you think the Republicans wouldn’t say that immediately.
That’s exactly why they’re refusing.
Also how much you wanna bet they’re blaming the feebs?
Honest question, what’s a “feeb”? ^^
An FBI agent (or sometimes more broadly any federal agent, as here.)
Just gonna drop this here
Who moved Israel to Albania?..
It’s this new experiment, they were running out of space to invade in Palestine. Besides killing the Palestinians is becoming to easy considering the weaponry difference.
They decided to aim for some harder goals something that can fight a little bit back.
Missouri’s education department has largely cited administrative hurdles to dispersing the benefits — which requires coordination between schools, the education department and social services department. The state needed to gather eligibility information about students in a form it didn’t previously collect and share data across platforms that didn’t necessarily share the same format.
Holy shit that’s depressing. Hundreds of thousands of kids will go hungry in Missouri because the government doesn’t know how to set up EDI?
Them: “we need small government with less bureaucracy! Let’s dismantle all the useless parts of government and eliminate all those pesky regulations.”
Also them: “we can’t help the kids because we haven’t kept track of them because we can’t be bothered.”
Sounds more like people didn’t want to change forms which is even fucking more sad.
Feds: “We have money that you can give to families so kids can eat over the summer.”
MO politicians: “That seems like it would be a lot of hard work for us, so nah.”
…and now we can all see their platform was never about “protecting” kids. It’s all about hurting non-rich people. That is it.
Folks, please make sure to vote.
It’s more important to be able to say that you opposed your opposition than to help people. Once again, Fuck the South.
The party of “pro-life” at it again
More hungry kids! I bet that will own the libs who dare to send money to help them!
Their response is probably: “If the kids are hungry, they can get summer jobs in a meat packing plant for under minimum wage. And then they can continue to work there when school starts back up. In fact, forget school and go right to packing that meat with your tiny, easily severed fingers!”
As usual, the cruelty is the point.
Are there federal bodies or third parties that can assist in these measures? Just because the state is fucked and run by terrorists, shouldn’t mean that someone can’t step up and help. I knows it’s not that easy geographically, but every little bit helps.
just because you disagree with someone, there’s no reason to refer to them as terrorists. having a sound fiscal policy isnt terrorism, after all.
They are self proclaimed terrorists. Also, withholding funding so that children starve is pretty fucked up and calling them terrorists is gentle compared to what they deserve. That’s not sound fiscal responsibility, that evil incarnate. Defense of that view is completely fucked as well, terrorist.
someone’s salty
You could say that. Most reasonable people think starving children and domestic terrorism is something to be upset about. It appears you are not a reasonable person, terrorist.
seems to me that it’s the parents direct responsibility to feed/shelter their progeny - but sure, let’s blame the evil state govt
you folks are literally brainsick
You’re the one advocating for starving children, terrorist, you’re the brainsick one.
wow, you’re like Dr. Sbaitso with a learning disability
Ugh, paperwork. Can’t they just buy food with their trust funds?
Seriously. Haven’t they thought of selling off some pieces of their artwork collections?
Republicans and the right wing in general are happiest when they can cause others to suffer.
Just another reason I’m trying to get the fuck out of this hellhole
STL checking in. I hate it here so much.
Where are you trying to get to?
Waiting to have some more experience in my field, and we’ll see from there. Ideally in the New England area because I actually know people there, but frankly it’ll be where ever I get a job.
We need a nonprofit or something that will help low income red state families relocate and find affordable housing and jobs in blue states. Red states are third-world and deserve a refugee program.
That’s what they want. That way they stay red.
Actually, no.
What they really want is some of their voters to move to blue states and start voting for GOP policies anyway, hoping to turn those states red as well and drag them down to their level.
And yes, there are plenty of morons who will gladly flee red states because they’re unliveable, then start voting in favor of enacting the same policies in their new state that caused them to leave their home state in the first place, because people are fucking stupid.
I’d rather people not suffer from starvation than not convert to my political affiliation
That’s what the GOP is basing their strategy on.
*Republicans have decided to turn down millions in federal food aid