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OhioChick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-11 06:45 PM
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1. "keeping millionaires from getting food stamps and unemployment benefits."
Millionaires can get food stamps?
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  -Senate Republicans propose plan to pay for payroll tax cut Freddie Stubbs  Nov-30-11 06:43 PM   #0 
  - "keeping millionaires from getting food stamps and unemployment benefits."  OhioChick   Nov-30-11 06:45 PM   #1 
  - What's outrageous is, if this really is true ...  zbdent   Nov-30-11 06:52 PM   #3 
  - Yes they can.  former9thward   Nov-30-11 07:07 PM   #7 
  - I never knew this practice existed....  OhioChick   Nov-30-11 07:23 PM   #8 
     - There are also millionaires collecting unemployment  former9thward   Nov-30-11 07:29 PM   #9 
        - Pure greed......  OhioChick   Nov-30-11 07:41 PM   #12 
  - it's based on income, not net worth... see link below..  IamK   Nov-30-11 07:53 PM   #13 
  - I read that and looked back to see the source (CNN), thinking it was someone being  karynnj   Nov-30-11 08:10 PM   #14 
  - Yes - the rules were changed to look at just income and not assets  Yo_Mama   Nov-30-11 08:12 PM   #16 
  - Are food stamps based on assets or income?  Yupster   Nov-30-11 08:44 PM   #18 
     - Many states have eliminated the asset test  Yo_Mama   Nov-30-11 09:22 PM   #21 
  - Yep that will fucking do it.  Autumn   Nov-30-11 06:48 PM   #2 
  - The Senate republicans can donate all their salaries  Rosa Luxemburg   Nov-30-11 06:55 PM   #4 
  - Fuck you......  Swede Atlanta    Nov-30-11 07:01 PM   #5 
  - It's part of the NorquistRepublican plan  atreides1   Nov-30-11 08:10 PM   #15 
  - This proposal also involves means-testing Medicare premiums.  blueclown   Nov-30-11 07:05 PM   #6 
  - Oh, Wow!  DallasNE   Nov-30-11 07:38 PM   #10 
  - I wonder why....  dennis4868   Nov-30-11 07:38 PM   #11 
  - Well, the Dem plan wouldn't even come close to covering it  Yo_Mama   Nov-30-11 08:24 PM   #17 
  - I think the idea is that  Yupster   Nov-30-11 08:49 PM   #19 
  - Exactly - how can we ever get out of it?  Yo_Mama   Nov-30-11 09:01 PM   #20 
  - "Increasing Subsidies To The Wealthy"  DallasNE   Dec-01-11 01:05 AM   #22 
  - Wait, wait, wait just one hot minute!!!  SKKY   Dec-01-11 02:28 AM   #23 
  - Maddow explained this nonsense last night...  and-justice-for-all   Dec-01-11 09:47 AM   #24 
 

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