Of course, not to be out-Bibled, Representative Stephen Fincher, a Tennessee Republican, came back with his own Bible verse, quoting the Old Testament when he said, “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.”
Michigan’s GOP clearly has it in for the poor, but this surprising video shows hunger also happens in middle class families.
It’s so hard for some to justify low tax rates for the wealthy, their only recourse is to convince a nation that keeping its citizens from starving is a bad thing for government to do.
President Barack Obama has taken many strides towards reversing 40 years of conservative policies, let’s raise a New Years’ Toast to four more years!
In spite of a diligent job search, her felony conviction has made it virtually impossible to find even an entry-level job, and she can’t feed her children because she has no money and is not eligible for food stamps.
If the GOP-led house doesn’t moo-ove a new farm bill out of committee, we’ll revert to higher-cost 1940′s programs from when farmers milked cows by hand.
Plan B failed to pass as it was unable to get support for Boehner’s own caucus, even though the rich would still get tax cuts at the expense of the middle class and the poor.
As long as we can delude ourselves into classifying all people receiving some form of government assistance as ‘Others’ who don’t ‘deserve’ help, we can pretend that we will never experience a set-back in life.
Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton lived on a food stamps budget for a week and learned that ‘identifying, in a concrete way, with struggling families is an important exercise for any leader.’
The Forbes on Fox hostess manages to exclude almost 10% of the US population while looking foolish.
Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) took the House floor Wednesday to lay a little factual, verbal smack down on Newt Gingrich and the GOP
As if Rick Santorum hasn’t done enough damage bashing gays, undocumented immigrants and those of us who, call us crazy, continue to act like Roe v. Wade is still the law of the land, he’s taking shots at both the poor and the obese now – a two’fer.
California Congresswoman, Jackie Speier, D-San Francisco/San Mateo, will participate in a food stamps challenge in which she will eat on a food budget of $4.50 a day for five days.
