Tea Party Congress to Starve the Poor

If the House majority leader (Eric Cantor) has his way, poor single Americans are totally screwed with his proposed cuts to SNAP. It limits benefits for jobless adults without children to just three months out of every three years --- and terminates those not meeting certain work requirements...even if there are no jobs available and people are willing and able to work. (It's unclear if this applies to people who are currently applying for disability, and therefore, unable to work.) Read More...

Representative Stephen Fincher of Tennessee, a Tea Party favorite who wants food stamps cut, collected nearly $3.5 million in government farm subsidies from 1999 to 2012. Yet he declared in a debate over food stamps, “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.” Even though these jobless people are willing to work (but employers refuse to hire them), they will not be able eat under Eric Cantor's plan. Read More...

We only hear about "waste fraud and abuse" when the GOP is talking about food stamps for 47 million poor Americans, but in a report released last month, the USDA inspector general said the agency spent millions on undue payouts through the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, while issuing no major overpayments for the SNAP program. But the GOP and Tea Party always blames the poor. If there's Medicare fraud, they don't go after the hospital CEOs, they cut benefits to the elderly.

GAO Audit: USDA Paid Millions To Thousands Of Dead Farmers (but the GOP wants to cut food stamps for people who are still alive.) Read More...

An unknown person (most probably at Tea Party extremist) has been leafletting Portland, Oregon neighborhoods with fliers that threaten to publicly name local recipients of food stamps and disability benefits. Go ahead, name me, you ass-wipe! Read More...

If American billionaires can afford to build homes like this, couldn't we DOUBLE their tax rates on capital gains to help pay for our national defense, fund public schools, finance food stamps for the poor, invest in research and fix our crumbling infrastructure? And if so, couldn't these homeowners be just as happy with a house HALF the size?

No. The GOP and Tea Party would rather they pay no taxes at all, and buy a home TWICE that size, and then DOUBLE the taxes for those who need food stamps.