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In reply to the discussion: The Fiscal Cliff is real for those who will lose their food stamps [View all]Marr
(20,317 posts)80. This is the same phony 'hide behind the poor' bullshit we heard two years ago, when
all the corporate Democrats suddenly cared SO MUCH about extending unemployment benefits, and refused to acknowledge that the Republicans had backed down from that fight every time in the past, and their threats were empty.
'We can't let those Bush Tax Cuts expire on us--er, I mean the wealthy, you guys-- we're only thinking of the POOR!!!'.
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One of the 99
Dec 2012
OP
I am currently receiving Fed extended unemployment benefits in CA, adminstered through EDD.
stopbush
Dec 2012
#8
I lost my eligibility for the extended benefits back in May, 2012, when CA no longer qualified for
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#86
Sorry, but not necessarily with SNAP benefits. You are ignorant of the law, I get this.
Melinda
Dec 2012
#19
The cliff will force them to do something and if it doesn't then I suspect a lot of congress will be
still_one
Dec 2012
#3
Exactly!!! And yet Americans keep voting them back into power ... because as some have
RKP5637
Dec 2012
#67
Technical note: I believe the phrase 'temporarily embarrassed millionaires' may have originated with
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#99
So what are you suggesting? Just giving into boners "plan b"? That may provide the short term
still_one
Dec 2012
#126
you are right. However, since we last discussed, the republicans didn't even want their own plan.
still_one
Dec 2012
#221
The money is owed to the people on Social Security and to the federal retirees.
JDPriestly
Dec 2012
#214
You say Duers don't care about those in poverty, then respond to me with a personal attack?
Melinda
Dec 2012
#40
Yours is exactly the reaction Obama is counting on to let him cut SS for everybody
MotherPetrie
Dec 2012
#27
Nothing could say better how Obama is turning needy people against each other in order to
MotherPetrie
Dec 2012
#58
It IS Obama's fault. He's making a totally unnecessary concession. If he hadn't been doing that
MotherPetrie
Dec 2012
#132
That was then. Obama has now been reelected with a comfortable margin. Yet he is still offering
MotherPetrie
Dec 2012
#144
Please don't attribute thought to me that I don't have. What I do think is that Obama offering
MotherPetrie
Dec 2012
#169
You're making by far the more dangerous and unsupportable assumption, all to defend a president
MotherPetrie
Dec 2012
#133
If the 2012 Farm Bill does not pass, then the previous Farm Bill remains in effect
Melinda
Dec 2012
#45
Thank you, you finally admitted that at least one thing that you're posting is BS
MadHound
Dec 2012
#164
We are not going to have Congress on our side any time in the foreseeable future
gollygee
Dec 2012
#94
Current reality is that we can't undo social security cuts and won't be able to in the foreseeable
gollygee
Dec 2012
#129
I think it's the difference between SNAP receiving cuts in the program
Puzzledtraveller
Dec 2012
#61
So old people are to be the sacrificial lambs. Gotcha. That's the new meme around here.
forestpath
Dec 2012
#70
You are the ones insisting it is either/or. One day everyone will go over Obama's cliff.
forestpath
Dec 2012
#102
The cruelty is using seniors for scapegoats. That's what you and President Obama are doing.
forestpath
Dec 2012
#124
This is the same phony 'hide behind the poor' bullshit we heard two years ago, when
Marr
Dec 2012
#80
So it's okay that the poor and needy suffer so you can win an ideological victory?
Autumn
Dec 2012
#165
If you want this deal, which does nothing but harm the needy, yeah this deal is to
Autumn
Dec 2012
#188
Tell it! But you have to assume that everyone who's carping is really a "liberal" or "progressive".
Tarheel_Dem
Dec 2012
#109
So, what do you propose? That we go along with the Democrats caving..again?
Tierra_y_Libertad
Dec 2012
#166
If it's not so important why are the Republicans and 3rd Way so focused on it?
Tierra_y_Libertad
Dec 2012
#210
There are deals that would be worse for more people over the long run, in order to avoid the "cliff"
MNBrewer
Dec 2012
#168
Some would rather score a victory for their "team" than do something to help those in need.
NYC Liberal
Dec 2012
#195
I don't speak to any person in particular. However, there is a faction of the population --
NYC Liberal
Dec 2012
#199