The program—part of federal assistance made available during the pandemic—would help families whose children are eligible for free and reduced-price lunches at school.
  • ZeroCool@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
    238·
    11 个月前

    States that participate in the federal program are required to cover half of the administrative costs, which would cost Nebraska an estimated $300,000. Advocates of the program note that the administrative cost is far outweighed by the $18 million benefit, which the U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates would benefit 175,000 Nebraska children who might otherwise go hungry on some days during the summer.

    Imagine being such a reprehensible monster that you’d let 175k children in your state starve rather than participate in a federal program that’d help feed them when school is out each summer. It’s unconscionable.

    • Nobody@lemmy.worldEnglish
      59·
      11 个月前

      Don’t look for any moral center for these crooks. As you’ve shown, they are complete and utter hypocrites. He condemns “welfare” because it gets him votes, while he gladly uses taxpayer money to fund himself and his wealthy campaign contributors. It’s the GOP long con.

    • werty
      5·
      11 个月前

      “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” Projection as always…

  • cabron_offsets@lemmy.world
    1131·
    11 个月前

    “I don’t believe in welfare”

    Feck off and stop accepting federal funding, you fucking welfare queen

    • neptune@dmv.socialEnglish
      1·
      11 个月前

      I love the DON’T BELIEVE statements. I don’t believe in guns, yet they exist.

    • Itsamemario@lemmy.world
      9·
      11 个月前

      I think the best course of action would be to reframe their thinking, instead of allowing things to keep in being called subsidies, force them to try to clarify the difference between a subsidy and welfare. Ie, farming subsidy? You mean farming welfare. Banking subsidy? You mean banking welfare. Did you know that Boeing Corp has received $15 Billion in subsidies not paid back? You mean $15 Billion in welfare, they in fact, received nearly $75 Billion in welfare, most of that welfare being received since 2000, and of that ~$75 Billion in welfare received, they actually paid back ~$60 Billion. So they received $15 Billion dollars in welfare from the US taxpayers. They are by no means the sole corporate beneficiary of welfare from the taxpayers, just the first one I stumbled upon. Point being, force the language to reflect what they hate so their hypocrisy can be exposed and other people’s eyes can be opened. Most people don’t know exactly what a subsidy is, they think there is some sort of justification for it that makes it beyond criticizing, a subsidy is just welfare for corporations or farms to keep them in business, we want them in business, sure, but we also want kids to be able to eat over the summer, and if farms and Boeing and banks are deserving of welfare from the government, and hence from the US taxpayers, why aren’t kids?

        • DrPop
          1·
          11 个月前

          This is for their voters too, we need to target those who vote for them and those who don’t to try and make a difference. They do this shit because they know their base doesn’t care so we need to make that base as small as possible to topple this bullshit.

    • Kosmokomeno@infosec.pub
      191·
      11 个月前

      Those entitled brats made a deal with the devil when they took the money. Greed got the better of them. It always does.

  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
    911·
    11 个月前

    maybe if we called it a ‘subsidy’. ha

    subsidies for very profitable corporations: a-ok ! tax cuts for people with more money than they could ever actually spend: you betcha! the welfare jobs program we call ‘the united states military’: ha, no reductons there, ever!

    human beings who need to eat food: go fuck yourself

    the lack of empathy in the republican party is so stark its hard to fathom.

    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      11 个月前

      They’d hate that too. Then GOP hates the word “subsidy” when it’s associated with something they don’t like. Example: subsidies for transitioning to green technology.

      • KᑌᔕᕼIᗩEnglish
        7·
        11 个月前

        Maybe they need to frame it as a subsidy for grocery stores and large food businesses, it just takes a temporary detour though somebodies bank account to get to the intended recipient.

        It’s also amusing that such a federal policy would actually help stimulate their economy because poor people are always forced to spend all their money but he’s too blind in his hatred for poor people that he can’t see the economic benefits to business in his state that it would bring. Business groups should be calling for his scalp too.

  • ME5SENGER_24@lemmy.world
    761·
    11 个月前

    So no more federal funding for Nebraska??

    If he doesn’t believe in welfare, surely he doesn’t believe in government aid or subsidies

    That goes for every citizen of Nebraska, and if you don’t like it vote him out!

    I’m tired of this fucking pissing contest between Republicans and people that care about others

  • Daft_ish@lemmy.world
    541·
    11 个月前

    Ohh, so when I say, “I don’t believe in god” and you still force your Christian morality on me that’s OK. When you “don’t believe” in a real tangible thing that helps countless numbers of people you can just hand wave that away.

    Good to know the douche bag demographic is still overly represented in every facet of American life.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      161·
      11 个月前

      When these jerks talk about “freedom”, they don’t mean it in the sense that normal people think about it. Normal people think freedom means that I, as a free citizen in a secular nation, can ignore the xtian cult’s demands on what I’m required to do if I so wish, but governments (local and federal) may seek to provide services for their citizens.

      For them, “freedom” means they get to dictate that everyone bend the knee to their little book club and other people’s kids starve so that taxes are as low as possible (for the rich - regressive taxes on the poor and middle class can be high AF).

  • MeanEYE@lemmy.world
    47·
    11 个月前

    So he pays for his campaign out of his own pocket? He doesn’t collect donations. Surely.

    • orgrinrt@lemmy.world
      7·
      11 个月前

      I bet he considers them investments.

      Welfare is an investment too, however, and a damn good one.

      But that requires you to recognize everyone’s life valuable.

  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
    45·
    11 个月前

    “I know the governor a little bit, and he seems to be a reasonable man. He’s a man who is compassionate in conversation,” Love said. “This is out of character. So, obviously, he’s not following his heart. He’s following his politics. He’s falling victim to political posturing, and there’s no excuse for that when it comes to children.”

    No, he is not reasonable or compassionate. His actions speak louder than any words he uses sounding like reason or compassion.

  • Bransons404@lemmy.world
    43·
    11 个月前

    The sadder part of this is that $40 can hardly feed anyone for a week, and that’s if you REALY stretch it on bulk rice and beans.

    • Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website
      21·
      11 个月前

      It’s worse than that.

      It’s $40/month, and only for the 3 months of summer to make up for impoverished children not getting meals through school during the summer.

      These people are ghouls.

      • AA5B@lemmy.world
        11·
        11 个月前

        And its only administrative costs: the federal government would be paying for the program. He doesn’t want to pay for someone to coordinate and do the paperwork for someone else to feed his state’s disadvantaged program. He doesn’t want to pay for someone to run a program to bring like 50 times the spending into his state

        • Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de
          2·
          11 个月前

          That would be a more interesting headline: Nebraska governor doesn’t want to pay 1 million to get children 50 million worth of federal food grant.