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- world@lemmy.world
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- world@lemmy.world
Those among the 42 million enrolled in the program worry that cutoff of the benefit will send their lives into a tailspin
Across the country, Americans who depend on government help to buy groceries are preparing for the worst.
As a result of the ongoing federal government shutdown, Donald Trump has threatened to, for the first time in the program’s more than 60-year history, cut off benefits provided by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance program (SNAP). A federal judge last week prevented the US Department of Agriculture from suspending Snap altogether, but the Trump administration now says enrollees will receive only half of their usual benefits.
The Guardian wanted to know how important Snap was to the approximately 42 million people enrolled in the program. Many of those who responded to our callout were elderly, or out of the workforce because of significant mental of physical health issues, and worried that a cutoff of the benefit would send their lives into a tailspin.
Well, no…a few million in the right places would have made the difference
You know who I blame? The people who’s job it is to mobilize those people to vote, and acted like entitled pieces of shit instead of upholding democracy. It was an unforgivable shit show of two half assed campaigns in a trenchcoat
I blame my lazy and stupid countrymen failing an open book test. You do not need to be coerced to vote against fascism; that’s a lazy stupid take that absolves the citizens of their duty and obligation to be informed and engaged in the civic process, including voting and understanding how our system actually works in practice as well as theory.
If you didn’t vote or voted third party you are very nearly as responsible as the trump voters. It is not the Democratic party’s responsibility to motivate you to save yourself from an existential threat. Blaming them knowing it’s coming makes you stupid and complicit.
Bullshit. The Democrats played chicken with fascism, AGAIN, refused to call it what it was, and then collaborated with the fascists until it became clear they were all going to lose their jobs next election
They literally paved the path for Trump’s victory. They created a situation with so little hope for the future that enough dumbasses desperate for change believed a con man… Again
People with your attitude for the last thirty years enfeebled the Democrats. It is always the people’s fault. Anything else is cope.
The people are incredibly susceptible to propaganda. They’re fucking sheep. Do you realize how few people are actually self conscious?