{"id":31421,"date":"2018-02-13T13:27:22","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T21:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31421"},"modified":"2018-02-13T13:27:22","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T21:27:22","slug":"poor-or-middle-class-get-vaseline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/13\/poor-or-middle-class-get-vaseline\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor or Middle Class? Get Vaseline!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten and his Republican Reich have released their budget.  The GOP Nazi word for Vaseline is Vienerschleider, and if you don’t know hat that has to do with a Republican budget, it’s time for you to bend over and grab your ankles.  You’re about to find out in the worst possible way.<\/font><\/p>\n

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The Trump administration wants to slash food aid to low-income families and make up the difference with a box of canned goods<\/strong> \u2014 a change that Office of Management and budget director Mick Mulvaney described in a Monday briefing as a \u201cBlue Apron-type program.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we do is propose that for folks who are on food stamps, part \u2014 not all, part \u2014 of their benefits come in the actual sort of, and I don’t want to steal somebody’s copyright, but a Blue Apron-type program where you actually receive the food instead of receive the cash,\u201d Mulvaney said. \u201cIt lowers the cost to us because we can buy [at wholesale prices] whereas they have to buy it at retail. It also makes sure they’re getting nutritious food. So we’re pretty excited about that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mulvaney’s remarks drew raised eyebrows from some critics, who accuse the Trump administration official of drawing an unfair comparison between the food stamp program, which delivers an average of $1.37 per meal to America’s poorest, and a high-end meal kit that runs $10 per serving.<\/p>\n

On Monday, the Trump administration proposed cutting food stamps, formally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, by $17 billion in 2019 and more than $213 billion over the next decade<\/strong>. The dramatic reductions came as part of a budget proposal<\/a> that made sweeping, across-the-board cuts to popular safety net programs,<\/a> including federal housing subsidies and Medicaid.<\/p>\n

But the administration’s SNAP proposal was particularly striking, advocates and experts said, because it advocates a fundamental change to the program’s administration. For the past 40 years, the Agriculture Department has distributed benefits as either paper coupons or virtual disbursements on Electronic Benefit Transfer cards, allowing recipients to use them as cash on foods of their choice and at their own grocery store… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Photo Credit: Samuel Warde<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

When you get your GOP food package, say "Here Kitty, Kitty, Kitty!"  But don’t expect a cat to come.  Republicans will be feeding you the portions that the cats rejected.<\/font><\/p>\n

RESIST THE REPUBLICAN REICH!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten and his Republican Reich have released their budget.  The GOP Nazi word for Vaseline is Vienerschleider, and if you don’t know hat that has to do with a Republican budget, it’s time for you to bend over and grab your ankles.  You’re about to find out in the worst possible way. The Trump […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}