These people are pieces of shit.

[PopeOxycontinI]

So the pukies in the house want to eliminate food stamps entirely? How likely is this to actually happen?
I am afraid to find out. They also want to maintain subsidies for wealthier and corporate farmers in
the same bill? How exactly do they calculate that this sort of shining example of their hypocrisy(vis a vis
whining about "big government&quot will help them politically? This is also too hypocritical to be said to be an
act of principle, so they must simply want 50 million Americans to starve in an economy they themselves
constantly bitch about. These people are just layer upon layer upon layer upon layer of disgusting.
I cannot fathom how evil they are. Do they also think their won't be riots if 50 million are suddenly faced with imminent starvation?
Nice gamble, fuckwads.

[2naSalit]

1. It has been my speculation

for quite some time now that these asshats WANT rioting and continue to pressure us into that corner until they get what they want. You see, those gun/war machine manufacturers and their shills need more of our taxpayer $$s ...and how else to supplement for the loss of illegal wars of choice that are now allegedly ending than to just bring the theater of war home?

[live love laugh]

4. Your theory is VERY plausible--I knew/know they want us to kill each other

I just didn't connect it to the war machine and profit$.

SMH

[MrSlayer]

2. You would be surprised how much support there is for eliminating food stamps.

I hear it all the time in my neighborhood. People are infuriated by the use of Access cards. They hate and resent being in line behind someone using one and scrutinize what is being bought, how the person is dressed and what sort of cell phone they have. The right wing propaganda really did its job on that account. If it was put to popular vote, I'd bet you dollars to donuts the SNAP program would be gone.

[duffyduff]

6. That's why you use self-checkout

It's nobody's fucking business what I buy or what I use to pay for it.

And no, it wouldn't be gone if put for a vote. Too many people have to use SNAP cards.

[MrSlayer]

7. I wonder how many of them vote.

And how many of them will now be disenfranchised.

Hopefully, we'll never find out but I suspect I'm all too right about it.

[duffyduff]

9. More and more people are falling through the cracks and need assistance

The "haves" are becoming fewer and fewer in this country.

I know I vote, and I suspect many others in this situation do, too.

[n2doc]

3. They don't care

They know that Citizens United allows those same corporations that they are shoveling pork into to turn around and take a small amount of that same pork and buy overwhelming amounts of ads and other election support. Even if there are riots they have the DHS and the rest of the security state ready to back them up, and bought media to cover for them.

Until a large percentage of the population starts to actually think and not just vote for whomever the person on TV/Radio tells them to vote for, nothing will change. Even then it will be a struggle because in many, if not most, cases votes won't be offered a real choice. Either no opponent, or a "repub-lite" dem chosen to 'appeal' to the electorate (as described by the bought out media).

[2naSalit]

5. ...

Very good points. I would imagine that the agenda is some combination or actually all of the above.

[deutsey]

8. The very wealthy elites have always seen the rest of us a herd

of smelly, ignorant animals.

You can find hints of this assumption going all the way back to classical writings of Plato and Cicero.

I think after the Great Depression, enough of the wealthy elites saw it in their best interest to support the New Deal (and the ensuing few decades of social progress...thanks largely to the threat of Communism) that we got a glimpse of what "the masses" could be if the country's resources were shared more equitably.

The Reagan/Bush Reaction put a stop to that and now, I believe we're seeing the unmasked re-emergence of the ancient attitude among the wealthy that the rest of us are stupid brutes.

They think they're nice and secure in their gated communities and hermetically sealed office buildings with a nascent police state apparatus at their disposal when the weapon of mass distraction (media) fail to control us.