Senator Sessions Calls Food Stamps A "Moral" Issue - & He Opposes Them

Jeff Sessions has no morality (3.80 / 5)

This business about it being a national goal "to place as many people on welfare, food stamp support, as we can possibly put on that program" is complete BS.  He's making s#*% up.  It's a distraction so he can avoid talking about the obscene profits being made by his buddies/campaign contributors in the 1%.  Or more likely, in the 0.1%

The purpose of the food stamp program is to keep Americans, and especially American children, from starving.  This recession is the worst one since the Great Depression.  The fact that we haven't been treated to images like these from the 1930s is testament to the fact that the social safety net, by and large, is working.  Too many people are still hungry in America, but in most places no one is starving on the street.  People like Jeff Sessions, who view economic downturns as God's judgment against poor people, just hate that.

 

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
- John Adams

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by: herding old cats @ Tue Jun 19, 2012 at 13:39:46 PM UTC

Sorry, the above comment is mine (4.00 / 2)

My computer is in the shop so I'm borrowing herding old cats' ... forgot to check who was logged in before I started typing.

Work harder and work smarter!

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by: mooncat @ Tue Jun 19, 2012 at 14:29:00 PM UTC

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Sessions is a monster (4.00 / 2)

 I don't know any other way to put it.

"to place as many people on welfare, food stamp support, as we can possibly put on that program"

  It's BS and beyond! Sessions along with most of the GOP wants as many tax dollars as possible spent on unnecessary military campaigns. 

 "Starve the poor so we can have another nice long war somewhere" is how I read it. 

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by: Dragontide @ Tue Jun 19, 2012 at 22:29:08 PM UTC

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Perhaps some of Sessions' confusion (4.00 / 2)

is because he's been reading "the Internets" too much.

Politifact just debunked this "fact" about illegal immigration - 43% of food stamp recipients are illegal immigrants. The claim earned a "pants on fire" rating.

So it’s mathematically impossible for more than 43 percent of all food stamps to be given to illegals -- there simply aren’t enough undocumented immigrants in the country to make the math work. Nor does the math work if you choose a month before the number of food stamp recipients rose due to the recession. In October 2008, there were 30.8 million recipients; 43 percent of that number is 13.2 million, which exceeded the total number of illegal immigrants at the time, 11.6 million.

None of this even takes into account an even more basic reality: It is against the law for Illegal immigrants to receive food stamps and the government has a process to verify immigration status. Citizen children of illegal immigrants can qualify (there are 3.5 million, according to Pew) but that's not enough to make the math work.

 

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."  - John Kenneth Galbraith

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by: countrycat @ Tue Jun 19, 2012 at 18:44:12 PM UTC

The real immoral issue (4.00 / 2)

The real immoral issue is lack of a livable minimum wage so no person working full time would need to be on food stamps!  Wasnt this what the minimum wage was for?  The senetors of the 1%, by the 1% and for the 1% are especially entrenched againts a (gasp) livable minimum wage.  Corporate America required to pay a real minimum wage so thier hard working employees would not have to beg the government for food!  Would corporate profits go down?

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by: grammasusan @ Wed Jun 20, 2012 at 05:14:46 AM UTC

The real moral is... (0.00 / 0)

How can so many white Alabamians vote for somebody that wouldn't give a damn if they lived or died tomorrow of starvation.  It is dumbfounding how complicit so many white Alabamians will vote for this racist and fascist bastard.  However, so many think they will one day achieve the dream of 'making it' delusional, twisted individuals.

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by: kayman @ Wed Jun 20, 2012 at 07:39:27 AM UTC