Tying assistance to needy families with child performance in school is morally unacceptable. The protesters were right to bring children to confront Campfield.
Once again, the priorities of Republicans are astoundingly ridiculous, completely out of touch with reality, and goes against the will of the American people.
The same corporations that pay no federal taxes to begin with are also taking the money withheld from your paycheck for state taxes and giving to…themselves. And it’s all legal.
Tennessee state Rep. Stacey Campfield (R) appeared on MSNBC to defend his proposal to make welfare benefits reliant upon the academic performance of the children of welfare recipients.
For two to three million unemployed people, as of yesterday, Saturday, December 29th, you have received your last $400-ish per week unemployment check.
There are times when all we have left is our dignity. This isn’t a time to cling to that. You have to take care of your family.
‘I’ll be honest with you. I take so much for granted, even going to Starbucks and buying a cup of coffee is more than my daily food allowance right now.’
It goes without saying that once a woman has this ‘welfare baby,’ state and federal Republicans will do everything within their power to take away these fabulous benefits.
Linda Taylor tried to pull a scam and got caught. Reagan exaggerated her crime and immortalized her as the archetypal Welfare Queen.
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.
Taking a sledgehammer to a list of blatant lies the right needs to tell itself to justify their selfish stupidity.
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.’
If you think I’m having a wonderful time begging for financial help from my mother while simply trying to EAT on a regular basis and while being rejected over and over and over again as I look for work, you are out of your tiny mind.
I live here. After reading this list, you’ll be asking yourself, Why? I’ve been asking that question for over 30 years.
