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Someone ought to sanction *them*.  The whole world should do it.

Basically, on little more than a nasty whim, the Trump administration cut my food stamp amount by about 25%.  Now, that wont hurt me too much personally because I never got much to begin with.

The ones I worry for are the families and children.  The single parents working and going to college and struggling desperately to stay afloat.  The pe…[Read more]

Here is a piece from the guardian that goes into more specifics of the new cuts and gives several other examples of what people are dealing with

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/dec/12/trump-food-stamps-cuts-vital-lifeline-millions-americans

It is…. pretty damn sick.

I emailed my Governor to ask if there was some way the state could…[Read more]

Then what good does wagging the finger at Israel and Saudi Arabia do, then? I don’t see you criticizing Tulsi for that. It’s the potential double-standard that bothers me. I do not know what Tulsi thinks about, say, the treatment of Muslim Bengali immigrants who have been in India for years is. She hasn’t said. I wonder why.

I have every right to…[Read more]

It’s how she was raised that concerns me, and I consider that concern a legitimate one as regards things Indian. And I didn’t demand she answer for what India is doing. You have no call to put words in my mouth.

Sad to see once reasonable journalists like Rachel Maddow now becoming worse than Tucker Carlson.

Even now, I hear many people refer to people getting rich from welfare.  The welfare queen idea was an integral part of a larger discourse on welfare reform, especially during the bipartisan effort to reform the welfare system under Bill Clinton.

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/09/bill-clinton-welfare-reform-work-racism-reagan

@closeupready Besides planting lots of large photosynthetic plants, I don’t know of any. I do know that people used to feel the same way about alchemy, that there must be some way to turn lead into gold, but it never happened.

Interesting statistics on infrastructure spending as a % of GDP.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/566787/average-yearly-expenditure-on-economic-infrastructure-as-percent-of-gdp-worldwide-by-country/

@mizzgrizz Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer come to mind. Gutless, cowardly, stupid tacticians, weak.

Your description of what impoverished Americans have to go through in order to get the meager and inadequate aid to which they are still eligible is accurate and should be common knowledge, but it isn’t. Unless one has been through the process oneself, which I have as far as food stamps are concerned, or knows people who have gone through it, as…[Read more]

I love the map showing Delaware completely inundated. Someone should ask Joe Biden about that.

All the trends in the article are directly tied to the increasing power of wealthy individuals and corporations, which are in turn tied into the growing dominance of the financial sector and increasing economic inequality over the last 40 years. This is also a global phenomenon, not just an American one. Why else is there so much unrest among…[Read more]

@liberalelite Well, we certainly can. Bernie and Tulsi already have.

@snortmcdork That’s precisely why this poll is good news. Bernie is trending upwards in all the California polls, and even with their built in bias, Bernie is still in a statistical tie with Biden. There’s only so much that they can fudge.

On the bright side, some land that will be waterfront property some day is pretty affordable right now, ;)

I hope you will feel better now.

Thank you for posting. This law is clearly a discriminatory measure aimed strictly at Muslims. It provides an excuse for bigoted Hindu officials to deny a Muslim refugee or immigrant, usually from Burma or Bangladesh, naturalization, which does ultimately deny them citizenship.

It’s little different from what Trump is doing to immigrants in the…[Read more]

So why has she not condemned anti-Muslim bigotry on the part of the Indian Prime Minister and his religious nut job party? There’s a lot more evidence that this guy, when he had the power to stop it, allowed a massacre of 2000 Muslims to take place in the state for which he was Chief Minister, and then was subsequently cleared by people in his own…[Read more]