Rob Rogers for November 15, 2013

Why are we at record high food stamp use anyway? I thought Obama supposedly gave us shovel ready jobs. A remarkable recovery. Why all the need for the stamps then?

The number of people on food stamps has Doubled under Barry O so a 3% cut to the program is long overdue.Also, the cuts are targeted to those with no dependents and are able-bodied, working age adults.What’s the problem!

So a 36 dollar cut is the same as a storm wiping out entire villages and killing 10,000 people? That comparison is beyond retarded and it is genuinely disturbing the lows that Rogers is willing to stoop to just to jab at republicans. Shameful.

Like a massive spending program that was to be “temporary” should be made permanent just because…The Stimulus was an abject failure. Maintaining that level of spending on welfare only encourages welfare reciepents to continue to stay on those programs.Of course, that IS what Progressive Leftists want; people to get on and stay on government assistance.

" Maintaining that level of spending on welfare only encourages welfare reciepents to continue to stay on those programs."

This is true not only of recipients of food stamps, but also to recipients of corporate welfare. One purchase of thousands of tanks that EVERYONE acknowledges are not needed, and will never be used, would pay for a lot of food stamps….or health care, for that matter. There is waste, fraud, abuse, and dependency at all levels. Wouldn’t it be smart to look for it everywhere it exists, rather than to solely blame individuals?

If we eliminated all waste in the welfare system, agribusiness and oil subsidies, and useless defense programs, we’d be in the black in no time. You’ll never get to the correct answer if you’re unwilling to ask the correct questions.

At this time, there are already thousands of tanks being stored in the Nevada desert. They are brand new, they will never be started. Today’s wars are not fought with tanks, and many parts of the world have terrain that is not tank-friendly. We’ve lost billions in heavy machinery that was not designed for the mud and mountains in the middle east, just because it was cheaper to abandon the stuff rather than try to find a way to retrieve and repair it. The Pentagon has acknowledged that it has as many tanks than it needs, and the Pentagon has never been considered to be conservative in regards to purchases. I have seen interviews with the proponents of the tank purchase. When asked why we need more tanks, the answer is that we might need more tanks. Not good enough for me. You want that many dollars? Come up with a better reason.

The only reason that those tanks are being built is because the plant is in Ohio, which evidently is the only state that ends up counting for anything in a presidential election. I guarantee you that those tanks would never have been ordered if the plant was in North Dakota.

But I do agree with you in one respect. There will always be another war. You’d never know there were so many religions preaching peace, and so many people who pretend that they practice their religions’ tenets.

Bumper sticker writers can be quite clever. I have a friend whose truck says: “Can’t feed ‘em? Don’t breed ’em.”

I have one that says: “The Patriot Act: Turning Citizens into Supsects since 2001.”

I am looking for one that says “186,000 miles per second. It’s not just a good idea. It’s the law.”

Yeah, I’m with those food stamp cuts, lazy bums. Just don’t touch those farm subsidies. Steve Fincher, Rep from Tennessee, got about 3.5 million over the last fourteen years. Aint nothin’ like earnin’ yur own keep, especially when all you got is a 2500 acre farm that your family passed down to ya. Plus, yur also “hard-workin’, Bible-totin’ and gun-carryin’.” All that just LOOKS like a guvment handout. Really it aint, y’all. That’s just the unfettered free market at work, helpin’ those that help themselves, like good ol’ Republican members of Congress busy designing legislation that makes them richer – that’s the American way. One more thing – don’t no one know how much help he got with the farm insurance program. That information can’t be accessed. In other words, conservatives don’t give a rat’s ass about being “fiscally responsible.” Right. If the govment handout goes to the Pentagon or a big corporation or a rich Republican from Tennessee posing as a good-ol’ boy farmer, right-leaning folk start doin’ some serious back-peddling. But help for the poor….. Now that’s code for “handout to lazy minorities.” My father has always said it best: The definition of a conservative is someone who’s against government assistant until he needs some. I’m thinking now of that lady, rallying against Obamacare. She opened her mouth and her ignorance revealed itself. She said something like this: No government-run healthcare, and take your hands off of my damned Medicare! Dick Cheney is the living, breathing example of it all… A guy that tucked his yellow tail between his weak legs FIVE TIMES – in the form of deferments to get out of combat during the Vietnam War – has always been, for the RIGHT, the guy that knows how to keep us all safe. Enough said. I’m reminded of the motto of the state of North Carolina: To be rather than to seem to be. You’d think some of those crazy-ass Republican politicians there would take a hint.

Why are there never any spending cuts in the farm subsidy programs? While the least of us are denied sustenance we condemn them for being so.

It’s sad that people like Rogers clearly have no idea what is actually being cut. It’s no wonder our country is in such a state of division.

“Why are we at record high food stamp use anyway? I thought Obama supposedly gave us shovel ready jobs. A remarkable recovery. Why all the need for the stamps then?”#Well, the problem is those “shovel ready jobs” are making sand castles on a local beach, using a child’s shovel and pail. What red blooded American wants to do THAT?

You’re hearing voices again! Actually, food stamps are similar to corporate welfare. The poor don’t hoard their money, regardless of how they got it. They spend it, thus helping the economy and agribusiness. The wealthy don’t recirculate their money, regardless of they got it, they hoard it in secret overseas bank accounts, thus helping nobody but themselves.

Debt Free: So you have personal knowledge of what I have seen and are able to write about it?

I think the real concern is whether YOU have personal knowledge of anything. Period. It doesn’t take a genius to observe the ramblings of paranoia. Your hatred of Obama, and liberals in general, goes way beyond anything resembling sanity.