Community | March 23, 2011 | 115 comments

GOP Bill Would Cut Off Food Stamps To Entire Families If One Member Strikes

source: http://thinkprogress.org/2011/03/23/buried-provision-food-stamps/

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All around the country, right-wing legislators are asking middle class Americans to pay for budget deficits caused mainly by a recession caused by Wall Street; they are attacking workers’ collective bargaining rights, which has provoked a huge Main Street Movement to fight back.

Now, a group of House Republicans is launching a new stealth attack against union workers. GOP Reps. Jim Jordan (OH), Tim Scott (SC), Scott Garrett (NJ), Dan Burton (IN), and Louie Gohmert (TX) have introduced H.R. 1135, which states that it is designed to “provide information on total spending on means-tested welfare programs, to provide additional work requirements, and to provide an overall spending limit on means-tested welfare programs.”

Much of the bill is based upon verifying that those who receive food stamps benefits are meeting the federal requirements for doing so. However, one section buried deep within the bill adds a startling new requirement. The bill, if passed, would actually cut off all food stamp benefits to any family where one adult member is engaging in a strike against an employer:


The bill also includes a provision that would exempt households from losing eligibility, “if the household was eligible immediately prior to such strike, however, such family unit shall not receive an increased allotment as the result of a decrease in the income of the striking member or members of the household.”

Yet removing entire families from eligibility while a single adult family member is striking would have a chilling effect on workers who are considering going on strike for better wages, benefits, or working conditions — something that is especially alarming in light of the fact that unions are one of the fundamental building blocks of the middle class that allow people to earn wages that keep them off food stamps.

With a record 42 million Americans on food stamps during these poor economic times, it appears that the right is simply looking for more ways to hurt working class


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115 comments // GOP Bill Would Cut Off Food Stamps To Entire Families If One Member Strikes

  • sgtruth
    • 0
      sgtruth  

    • This is what Republican's do, to cut off food stamp to entire families if one member strikes. They only care about themselves, but they love us. Yeah.
      The Republican's threaten not to extend the Job Benefits to 6 million Americans until the Democatics make a decision on extending the Bush Tax Cuts.
      President Obama were not going to let 6 million Americans go without Dec.2010, President Obama compromise with the Republicans and extended the Bush Tax cut for 2 years. They were happy than.
      Tim Scott willing to sign a bill to do this, while he is taking money for Sarah Palin who is a Tea Party Pac Leader for Charles and David Koch, and just happen to make a Donation to Scott Campiagn it wasn't from her, but her Boss the Koch's brothers.

    • 11 months ago
  • Deville_Trey
  • DicedPeas
  • bayoulady
    • +2
      bayoulady  

    • What's wrong with this story?

      Working people in America needing food stamps - that's what's wrong.

      BUT, what's even MORE WRONG than that is that repubs would cut off their food stamps if the were to strike against the corporation that is paying them slave wages. How long are we going to stand for this "Third-World status" for working-class Americans? ENOUGH ALREADY!!!!!!!!

    • 1 year ago
  • Dusty_King
    • +2
      Dusty_King  

    • Oh course this is sponsored by Dan Burton and Louie Gohmert two of the meanest assholes ever in the Congress. People like this won't be happy until we are living in a Charles Dickens novel.

      When they end up on our side of the equation, I hope I'm there to push them further down the ladder.

    • 1 year ago
  • figlatin
  • WagonMaster
    • +2
      WagonMaster  

    • Upon conducting an exhaustive investigation, I have discovered that leading GOP Legislators have a deep vested interest in the canned pet food industry and were given copious amounts of special interest money for their Political Action Committees (read: personnal bank accounts) to enact legislation that would drastically raise the lagging sales of their product because of the shrinking elderly population. Strikers denied food stamps would of course use their begged change to buy Kennel Ration to feed their families.

    • 1 year ago
  • Introspective
  • im1mjrpain
    • +4
      im1mjrpain  

    • If they take away food stamps from 42 million Americans then all you gun grabbers will wish you had taken advantage of your right to bear arms.

    • 1 year ago
  • ReMarker
  • BigAL72
  • KB723
  • cicly
  • mistro
  • kgMA
    • +3
      kgMA  

    • Like I've said several times in the past, the power of the strike is a powerful tool and people don't realize how powerful it can be. Why, because for years, in the private sector, through negotiations between unions and the business world, unions agreed to accept no-strike agreements in their contracts for pay increases, job safety, better conditions, and benefits. The right to strike has always been a sore spot in the business community because it is unproductive and costly. Strikes disrupt the flow of profits and tranquility needed to compete with others or a time schedule. In the public sector, the threat of replacement workers due to safety concerns and possible law suits against unions, keep them on the job; firefighter, police, emergency worker, (Reagan favorite) Air Traffic Controllers, etc. In the private sector, unions have been hammered over the past 30 years but they are still out there and still active. The numbers have dropped where right to work laws were imposed but with those laws came lower wages and less benefits for the folks living in those states. Right to work states are the driving force towards 3rd world standards. Now its the public sector who is under attact! No surprise there, but don't kid yourselves, the bottom line is still the same, lower wages and poor working conditions. Strike! Sit Out! Sick Out! Shut Down! Do it and don't worry about the rest of the public being pissed off or upset! They would put you out with the trash and never think twice about your families or hardships!

    • 1 year ago
  • BenjaminDover
    • +3
      BenjaminDover  

    • The unnamed War on Labor continues. They extract more and more from the working poor to feed the rich with greater wealth, less responsibility and absolute power. To keep us all hungry , frightened and loyal to our corporate overlords is their goal.
      The moves they are making now in plain sight indicate that either they feel they have garnered enough control over the game that they can act with impunity, or that they see this as their last opportunity to grab the reins and drive down the middle class to where they can be controlled.
      Rage against the machine.
      Vive la Revolution.
      End the Plutocracy!

    • 1 year ago
  • coucheliberale
    • -8
      coucheliberale  

    • why would one who is working need food stamps??? come on guys..you guys are worse than Fox News trying to manipulate everything...

      trying to paint people who works for the unions as poor abused people..far far far from the truth..and you guys know that...

      NOW THAT..IS EVIL

    • 1 year ago
  • bundlebear
  • LivingPong
  • savroD
  • kgMA
    • +2
      kgMA  
    • bundlebear:

      With the lack of food stamps, which striking members are entitled to presently while participating in a strike, the repubs hope to reduce the possibility of a nation wide strike. Their biggest fear! Why, because it would bring their ugly agenda into the light! Think twice? Really? We're talking about men and women who are working and have savings to spend on food during a strike, not unemployed people! You either believe in the right to strike or you don't!

      In my opinion, these right wing whack jobs need a strong back hand not a pat on the back for their destruction of working middle class Americans!

    • 1 year ago
  • cicly
  • moodyblue
    • +3
      moodyblue  
    • coucheliberale:

      There are lots of families who work their asses off and still need assistance. You know, like some of our military families. Why don't you walk up to one and ask them why they need food stamps if they are working? I know, I know, they aren't unionized, but your statement "why would one who is working need food stamps?" is beyond ridiculous and shows you to be willfully ignorant.

    • 1 year ago
  • Nephwrack
  • Varex_Sythe
    • 0
      Varex_Sythe  
    • coucheliberale:

      Yeah, those unions get their workers wages that rich people would envy, but it's not enough for those greedy union worker, particularly teachers who sometimes work a second job in order to take more money from others. It makes sense too when you think about it, because no one would ever take a second job in order to make ends meet.

      Yes, this has been sarcasm, yet what follows in this reply is not.

      I dub thee troll. Stand proud troll, for you are one of the "few" who has the proverbial balls to post such stupid shit.

    • 1 year ago
  • div
    • +2
      div  
    • coucheliberale:

      Amazingly, you can get part time work at minimum wage, and still be part of a union. Then some of your wage goes to taxes, and another to union dues.

      It is all too easy to be in a union and need assistance despite working.

    • 1 year ago
  • WagonMaster
  • Dusty_King
    • +1
      Dusty_King  
    • coucheliberale:

      Some people that are working make so little they qualify for food stamps. People like our Military, the corporals, specialists and privates for one. Isn't that nice? We pay our enlisted so little they can't buy food?

    • 1 year ago
  • Dusty_King
    • +1
      Dusty_King  
    • bundlebear:

      Oh bundlebear.... Don't forget about the Walmart workers. They also usually don't make enough $$$ a week to make ends meet and forget about the unions over there, WOW, they really hate the Unions.
      So they're lots and lots of folks that work and still qualify for food stamps, not to mention those who have finally decided people like you are idiots and we need to push back against Corportists and take our country and dignity back.

    • 1 year ago
  • kgMA
    • +2
      kgMA  
    • Nephwrack:

      They have been pushing against organized labor for 30+ years! I've had a life time full of Republican BS! I'm ready now! They need more then a backhand my friend, they need a swift kick in the ass and a ticket home!

    • 1 year ago
  • mitekillem
    • +4
      mitekillem  

    • So basically what they're saying is "if you're really poor, and you're in a union to get better wages, then we're going to starve you."

      How is this the "christian" thing to do?
      More importantly, how is that not evil?

    • 1 year ago
  • coucheliberale
  • pissedoffinarkansas
  • mitekillem
    • +1
      mitekillem  
    • coucheliberale:

      Then tell me why would a union member then need food stamps?
      Why then would it be necessary to write legislature against it, if it did not exist somewhere?
      Logic dictates that you are incorrect in your assumption. I'm pretty sure that if you need government assistance in buy the basics of life, say something like FOOD, then yes, I would say that you would be considered poor aka Lower-Middle Class.

    • 1 year ago
  • macchugsid
  • mapczar
    • +1
      mapczar  

    • So food is now a weapon to control peoples actions. When are we going to wake up to discover that we are marching rapidly into neo-fascism?

    • 1 year ago
  • twinite
    • +4
      twinite  

    • Yet there are still people ( I use the term loosely) who will continue voting for these candidates because they believe they are representing their best interests. It's really very sickening.

    • 1 year ago
  • cherry5000
  • DianaCancer
    • +4
      DianaCancer  

    • "Are there no prisons?" .
      "And the Union workhouses?"
      "The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?" asked Scrooge.

      - "What shall I put you down for?"

      "Nothing!" Scrooge replied.

      - "You wish to be anonymous?"

      "I wish to be left alone," said Scrooge. "Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I help to support the establishments I have mentioned -- they cost enough; and those who are badly off must go there."

      - "Many can't go there; and many would rather die."

      "If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population
      ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

      "Business!" cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!"
      - Dickens

    • 1 year ago
  • lazloman
  • chew_chew
  • extracrazykiwi2008
  • jcsteelesd
    • +2
      jcsteelesd  

    • First they came for the communists,and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

      Then they came for the trade unionists,and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

      Then they came for the Jews,and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.

      Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.

      Pastor Martin Niemoller

    • 1 year ago
  • bike10
  • pissedoffinarkansas
  • mspray11
    • +1
      mspray11  

    • And why did the Republicans landslide last election? It is time we got loud and educate the "dumbfuckistans" that voted for these idiots!

    • 1 year ago
  • figgdimension
  • figgdimension
    • 0
      figgdimension  

    • "Oh , we got you that job you been screaming for peasant , ummm where have you been on the internet ? ... hmm and your facebook history please ... awww yesssss welll um i see here you've supported workers rights and reform , uh huh well i dont think we'll be seeing you again sir ...Thanks for stopping by now.toodles
      I can see it now...
      Oh and we alerted federal authorities about your Foodstamp collection situation,
      have we come to this\??/
      I am overcome ..with indescribable feelings . a rarity.Damn

    • 1 year ago
  • figgdimension
  • Seauvan
  • Nephwrack
  • riffmage
  • Patrick_Grass
    • +3
      Patrick_Grass  

    • I think that the GOP needs a new icon to identify their party after reading this story! You know, the elephant just doesn't do it for them anymore! I was thinking maybe a poor or middle class person bent over barrow with their pants around their ankles. Doesn't matter if its a male or female the results are always the same when it comes to this party!

    • 1 year ago
  • Milieu
    • +5
      Milieu  

    • A) when the hell has this NOT been class warfare?
      2) Why do the Talking Heads let the Republic Syndicate and Oligarchs get away with calling BS on Class Warfare?

      3rd) I am sick to death of people giving Congressman Anthony Weiner of NY crap for actually saying 'Class Warfare.

      D) When did it become wrong to support other Democratic faces out front telling the Truth?

      Last) can we get Alan Grayson of Fla. appointed Special Congressional Envoy to the White House?

    • 1 year ago
  • Warren_Merrill
    • -6
      Warren_Merrill  
    • Milieu:

      OK. Let's give Weiner crap for pushing Obamacare so hard, then suggesting NYC may opt out because it's not good for them. Typical liberal elite. It's good for the rest of you. But it's not good for us.

    • 1 year ago
  • postlapsaria
  • Nephwrack
  • riffmage
  • figgdimension
  • Warren_Merrill
  • nanac
    • +8
      nanac  

    • Republicans are the epitome of evil. They are using blackmail to coerce Americans from striking, while simultaneously rewarding corporations with tax-cuts, although they are not hiring American workers..They are willing to starve infants, children, and the elderly just to punish a family member for standing up for their rights..What a sorry/pitiful group of politicians!

    • 1 year ago
  • Warren_Merrill
    • -2
      Warren_Merrill  
    • nanac:

      Democrats never give tax breaks to corporations and the rich. Never, never, never! What a bunch of blind horseshit. Your buddies on the left you worship are being bought by the corporations and the rich just like the right. You're all just too politically blind to see it.

      Is there anyone more left than Barney Frank? Here are his top twenty contributors in 2010 .... FMR (financial), Bank of America (financial), State Street Corp (financial), New York Life (financial), Promontory Financial Group (financial), Weiss Capital (financial), Farallon Capital (financial), Bank of New York (financial), Wilmer Hale

      (law firm with the following clients: Akamai Technologies, Amdocs, Analog Devices, AT&T, Avid, Bayer, Becton Dickinson, Biogen Idec, BJ’s Wholesale Club, Boeing, Bose, Boston Scientific, Broadcom, Cephalon, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Chrysler LLC, Danaher, Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Telekom, Educational Testing Service, EMC, General Electric, Goldman Sachs, The Hartford Financial Group, Honda, HSBC Finance, John Hancock, JPMorgan Chase, Kodak, Lufthansa, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Monsanto, Morgan Stanley, Novartis, Oracle, Panera Bread, PerkinElmer, Pfizer, Philips, Procter & Gamble, Red Hat, Sepracor, Staples, Statoil, Sun Life Financial, Thermo Fisher Scientific, UBS, Varian Semiconductor, WebMD, Wyeth, and Yankee Candle),

      Manulife (financial), Mellon (financial), Prairie Capital (financial), Power Financial (financial), Royal Bank of Scotland (financial), Akin Gump (one of the largest international laws firms specializing in corporate law), NASDAQ (financial), National Association of Realtors, ActBlue and Suffolk Construction (was just awarded a 136M contract to renovate the federal building in Boston).

      Mr Liberal Barney Frank (one of the most powerful Democrats in DC) had the largest financial and corporate interests in the world as most of his top twenty political donors.

      Yeah, Democrats can't be bought because they look out for the worker. ROTFLMAO! WTFU! It's all of them, not just the Republicans.

    • 1 year ago
  • nanac
    • 0
      nanac  
    • Warren_Merrill:

      You are off topic..The article is about the heartless/soulless Republicans trying to pass legislation to starve dependants of strikers, which include babies, handicap. elderly, children. and mentally challenged..I don't know about you but I find it difficult to support politicians who use blackmail and intimidation, to coerce workers not to fight for their rights..Name the Democratic politicians who are supporting this evil legislation, other wise your argument is pointless.

    • 1 year ago
  • twinite
  • xena
  • bluestranger
    • +9
      bluestranger  

    • And these are the self same sanctimonious pricks that whine and snivel about class warfare if anyone mentions the wealthiest and their precious corporations paying their fair share in taxes. Hows that trickle down theory working out?

    • 1 year ago
  • artemis6
  • tlbuffin
  • cherry5000
  • Saffold
    • +2
      Saffold  
    • tlbuffin:

      Oh, the days if sunshine for American has dimmed.We can't peacefully protest without being classified as domestic terrorist, we are over charged and over paid , i mean damn, I'm at the intersection of a convience store and gas stationand I am trying to spread my money enough to purchase gas, AA batteries, a li'l food and light bulbs.We as Americans shold not be faced with such simple questions, and we are divided as hell, "i'm this you're that, I live here, you live there, I speak like this, you speak like that, I went to school there, you attended over there, I believe this, you bel;ieve that.....but one day we will look up and beold... look and realize, damn, we've been divided and conquered.It's night time in Amearica.........

    • 1 year ago
  • Warren_Merrill
    • -3
      Warren_Merrill  
    • tlbuffin:

      You should examine what the Maine law is about. The teens get the rights, not the employers. Teens in Maine are not allowed to work more than four hours on school days. The bill would allow them the option to work up to six hours a day. The current law does not allow teens to work after 10pm. The bill would allow teens to chose to work until 11pm. Teens in Maine are not allowed to work more than 32 hours in a week. The bill would align with federal labor laws.

    • 1 year ago
  • figgdimension
  • BenjaminDover
    • +2
      BenjaminDover  
    • Warren_Merrill:

      Yes, so it would allow employers to use under paid teens to suck up more hours of work, taking money away from people trying to support their families. And would allow those teens to concentrate more on minimum wage jobs than their future success through education.
      Everything the cons propose just goes to dilute the jobs pool to make those looking for work more desperate, more willing to work harder for less with no benefits and no hope.
      End the Plutocracy!

    • 1 year ago
  • mapczar
    • +2
      mapczar  
    • Warren_Merrill:

      Your remark is naive sir when you say that the rights are the teens and not the employers. I would venture to say there is not a person who reads these blogs that have not experienced an employer telling a worker -- 'there are your hours, take them or find another job.' There is but a subtle difference between giving an employee the 'option' to work longer and giving the employer the right to work his underaged employees longer. We all know how that will be interpreted.

      So the real choice will be work these hours or quit. Correctly you state that 32 hours is the limit a teen can work -- for now. Only eight hours short of full-time. Slowly but surely it creeps up, taking inch by inch everything that was gain by the labor movement over the past 150 years. This slow regression is the American way while we are dazzled by Madison Avenue and 1000 channel spectacles.

      Once it was true that only one parent need work full time and support a family. Is that true today? The ever intense machine of consumerism is gaining momentum, greased by the bodies of obsolete and unemployed workers. American's are more productive today then they were 30 years ago, yet in real purchasing power, their wages have remained stagnate while the price of everything has been inflated.

      The tragedy is it can not go on indefinitely. Like a cannibal, Corporate Capitalism is consuming itself and the life blood of the planet. A house of cards eventually will collapse; so too with Corporate Capitalism. If you think that this mantra of 'More Today Than Yesterday, More Tomorrow Than Today' can be sustained then you are a fool and tool of the very people who will met out the destruction of us all.

      Shame on us for not watching you folks a little closer because I think you have already won at the ballot box and we are only left with massive resistance and violence. Shame on you for supporting and being a part of the destruction of democracy in America.

      One question: if real class warfare broke out tomorrow, which side would you be one? ordinary people or capitalist? We already know the answer but humor us and answer the question if you dare.

    • 1 year ago
  • LivingPong
  • hammywill
  • Varex_Sythe
    • +1
      Varex_Sythe  
    • Warren_Merrill:

      Yeah, those "rights" that teens get are legal limitations placed on teenagers who are still in the public education system so that they are not so overworked that they fail in their educational pursuits.

      Also, it is curious how yo claim that teens get the rights when the law prevents them from working after 10:00PM and the new bill would allow them to CHOOSE to work until 11:00PM. Lest I am mistaken, having rights almost always means that you have the choice to do something...

    • 1 year ago
  • Warren_Merrill
  • Warren_Merrill
    • -1
      Warren_Merrill  
    • hammywill:

      Yes. It's a great opportunity for teens to make more money. It's better they work than hang around if they're not involved in school activities, Teens are not allowed to work more than 32 hours a week. I worked 40 in the summer. They can only work in four hours each day Monday to Friday. This kills a lot of job opportunity for teens. I often worked six hours when I had the chance. The kids gain in this legislation. The governor's background is he came from being homeless to working his way through high school and college. He understands the value of kids having the opportunity to earn their way. By the way this is the same governor the NAACP ripped as being racist before they knew he had adopted a black child.

    • 1 year ago
  • Warren_Merrill
    • -1
      Warren_Merrill  
    • LivingPong:

      I'll consider this an ignorant, unintelligent, overreactive liberal comment. You had the opportunity to ask an inteligent question. You obviously don't have it in you. The problem with most of the people on this site is they are so negative they can only see the possible downside in everything in life. This site is the ultimate "glass is half empty" site. No wonder you're all so unhappy most of the time.

      Many high school jobs aren't great jobs. But it's an opportunity to learn responsibility and earn money. In high school I worked as a stockboy, landscaper and ditch digger. I don't believe there are jobs that demean kids. It's about learning the responsibility of showing up for work and earning a paycheck.

      My daughter had a great summer job in high school. She delivered meals and drinks to people on the golf course via golf cart. My son works as a busboy in the country club dining room. They worked around their college prospect showcase teams. They had very little free time in the summer. Between their sports and jobs they learned the value of working hard to get what they want. During the school year they both work(ed) in the country club dining room around their academic and athletic schedules. They don't see waiting on their spoiled friends as demeaning. I see it as character building.

    • 1 year ago
  • dreamsenvoy
  • hammywill
    • +1
      hammywill  
    • Warren_Merrill:

      So if this passes, and I am a Business Owner in Wis. and my Business employs mostly "unskilled" labor. I will just make all my positions Temp, then I can have a bunch of minors work for 40 hours a week at $4.25/hr. Which is almost HALF the Minimum Wage for anyone over the age of 20. There is a workaround to pay people under the age of 20 nearly half of what would normally be required by the Federal Minimum wage.

      This is nothing more than a way for employers to decimate the workforce and start having kids working again. I mean, do we really want to take a step BACK to where we have to have CHILDREN working again?

    • 1 year ago
  • Warren_Merrill
  • Warren_Merrill
  • hammywill
    • 0
      hammywill  
    • Warren_Merrill:

      Seasonal work is the IDEAL opportunity to take advantage of the loophole in the Federal Minimum Wage for minors. They can pay those seasonal workers HALF the Federal Minimum Wage.

      That aside, why do we want our KIDS working even 6 hours a day? Why do we need to allow for more opportunity for KIDS to be working MORE? They SHOULD be skiing all day! They will never be able to do that again once they enter the labor force full time as adults. Are you saying we boosted our economy so that we could have our children working?

    • 1 year ago
  • hammywill
  • Warren_Merrill
  • hammywill
  • letsliveinpeace
  • BenjaminDover
  • dalistuff
    • +7
      dalistuff  

    • Man those RepubliCant's are really good on skimming off the almost extinct middle ( now poverty ) class. How greedy can power make a human ?

    • 1 year ago
  • figgdimension
  • August_K
    • +5
      August_K  

    • I'll bet money this NEVER sees the light of day over on right wing media or any of their websites.

      These guys are beyond disgusting. People are struggling and ALL they can do is WASTE our tax dollars to figure out a way to screw the people over even more!!!!

      Time to start sending some "why do you hate your constituents" emails to this group of IDIOTS.

      The list below the link are links found on that page.

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    • 1 year ago
  • cherry5000
  • BenjaminDover
  • crash_text_dummy
  • coxian_armada
    • +10
      coxian_armada  

    • Thats right keep grabbing the money from the poor and the middle class.....and once you are finished with them where are you going to go......start a war and take over others wealth..........the GOP should be locked up in a mental institution

    • 1 year ago
  • Saffold
    • +3
      Saffold  
    • coxian_armada:

      I agree with you, but I see something dark and merciless unfolding for people on the bottom of the pyramid of society and that is we are losing all of our rights as far as decision making is concerned.When we raise questionsd, we are depied as domestice terrorist, we are overcharged and under paid, teachers are being laid off at an alarming rate, the 2nd Amendment right to bar arms is being chipped away because of gun control laws, jobs being sent afar, chains being placed on the doors of companies here, we are told how to spend money and I could go on and on.In short, we are definitel doomed.It's a wrap...............Ms. America is falling.

    • 1 year ago
  • August_K
    • +2
      August_K  
    • Saffold:

      That's the behavior they want....to feel defeated and to give up silently in despair.
      If you cherish Democracy and believe in government for the people and by the people
      DO NOT give up. The folks in Wisconsin showed us the power of the people.

      The people in the middle east showed us the power of the people and they were watching people protest in W and they were cheering them on.
      They sent money to some pizza shop by the capitol to feed the protesters!
      Then people in other countries started sending money and money came in from every state to that same pizza shop. That's people power....it's inspiring......so don't give up!

      The GOP can get shellacked too........their day is coming and I hope it's a landslide and
      these greedy corporate butt kissers all get their pink slips.

    • 1 year ago
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