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.
Confused. How did she not pay for it if she caused it? Is this just a major fuck up on your part for not holding her to account? I’ve never been in a wreck but my car has been hit in parking lots and I’ve never paid a dime, always the person at fault.
Not who you are responding to, but it happens all the time. Idiot driver is uninsured so there’s no insurance to pay the bills. Or they are under-insured and their insurance will only pay a fraction of the bills. What are you going to do? If you can afford it, you can sue them and maybe get some money out of them, but unless they are rich the odds are you won’t get enough wealth to pay the bills either. And if they are rich, they’ll tie you up in court for so long that your credit will be destroyed and you’ll run out of money to keep paying your lawyer to keep suing them.
None of this would be an issue if the medical bills were covered by single payer. I learned in other countries there’s no “ambulance chasers” because there’s no reason to have them - a whole parasitic industry nonexistent.
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.
But that would be “communism”!
nothing is preventing someone from creating a bill that would offer financial assistance to helping those who cant afford to move to “greener pastures”.
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.”
As usual, the cruelty is the point.
More hungry kids! I bet that will own the libs who dare to send money to help them!
Just another reason I’m trying to get the fuck out of this hellhole
STL checking in. I hate it here so much.
Yknow, it felt like 5-6 years ago you could make a legitimate argument that things were looking up. Don’t get me wrong, we’ve always had tons of problems, but it seemed like there was a chance.
I’ve given up. If the tides change enough for me to stay/come back if I make it out, I gladly will. I truly do love this state, it’s absolutely gorgeous. There’s so much good here, and so much more good that could be, but we just have to keep voting in people to fuck it up it seems.
Where are you trying to get to?
Missouri is the Mississippi of the Midwest.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/oligarchs-against-democracy
This. Is. One of the Best. Hidden Political History. Ever.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/oligarchs-against-democracy
blew my mind. see also anything else by thom hartmann and the Lewis Powell memo. and The Democracy Project by David Graeber (buy it at a used bookstore with cash)
Just gonna drop this here
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Republicans and the right wing in general are happiest when they can cause others to suffer.
I suspect it’s about killing off the undesirables and forcing the remainder to work.
Let’s not forget priming a number of the remaining for inflating the prison population.
… which is the same as “forcing the remainder to work” come to think.
They’re probably running numbers for potential prisoners, profits and bribes as we speak.
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.
If you read the article it has nothing to do with “the state being run by terrorists” - it’s that they don’t have the infrastructure and data collection necessary to do it. They have pledged that they will focus on getting it implemented so they can do it.
McGowin pledged that going forward the state will “focus on implementing the system changes necessary to facilitate participation in summer EBT programs in future years.”
But for Missouri to participate in next year’s program, “the state’s data collection systems need to be addressed well in advance,” McGowin said.
“The current P-EBT programs have required data to be collected from schools that DESE does not normally collect,” she said. “We must then address how the data can be most efficiently and effectively shared with DSS, and shared in a way that more seamlessly integrates with DSS’ benefit administration systems.”
Woody said the state’s pledge to make changes to better operate the program in future years is “the only bright spot.”
Maybe the federal government should be the ones building these data collection services so that the states simply have to opt-in and use the government created facilities?
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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
Found a terrorist
found the bootlicker
You’re right, it’s not terrorism.
It’s mass murder.
it’s not, actually
That’s because nobody wants to work in administration for less than $25 per hour which the state can’t pay without raising ever bodies taxes that no one wants to pay!
TANSTAAFL. (look it up)
