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Brian Hansbury's avatar

Thanks for engaging. It appears you are pushing propaganda of your own. Totally your right. But DID you think this was a great read? Appears you missed this part: “Why are Republicans hostile to a program that benefits tens of millions of Americans? Pay attention to right-wing rhetoric about food stamps and you’ll hear again and again assertions that SNAP beneficiaries are lazy malingerers — the “bums on welfare” who should be forced to go out and get jobs.

But that myth is punctured by a quick look at who gets SNAP. The fact is, the great majority of SNAP recipients can’t work: 40 percent are children; 18 percent are elderly; 11 percent are disabled. Furthermore, a majority of recipients who are capable of working do work. They are the working poor: their jobs just don’t pay enough, or offer sufficiently stable employment, to make ends meet without aid.”

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Torrance Stephens's avatar

Opinion is not propaganda.

Besides it is true that SNAP is thick with fraud, and this all due to Dems concerns for ACA.

“Subsidizing healthcare doesn’t lower its cost; it just shifts the expense to others. Why should my tax dollars go to subsidizing health insurance for a family making $250,000 yearly? If this was going to be a problem, why did Democrats write into law for the subsidies to run out this year? It is as if they knew up front the Affordable Care Act was never affordable to begin with.”

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