The Trump administration announced on Wednesday
of this week that they had finalized their
rule that could kick up to 750,000 American
citizens off the food stamp program, SNAP
benefits.
750,000 people under these new rules could
find themselves without any kind of aid to
get food.
And here's what these new rules are.
Basically, they've put a rule in place that
takes effect April 1st of all days in 2020.
So April fool's day, they're taking away your
food stamps, and what the rule does is it
says States can no longer exempt themselves
from the work requirements of the SNAP program.
The reason these work requirements in the
past are allowed to be waived is because you
have areas of the country where guess what,
the unemployment rate is not three and a half
percent, which is what the national average
is right now, but that's just that.
It's an average.
That means some areas of the country have
unemployment rates that are lower than this.
Some have unemployment rates that are much
higher than that and in the areas where the
unemployment rate is higher than the national
average, it's obviously harder for people
to find a job.
So more people may need food stamps, but this,
this administration, just took cruelty to
a whole new level, and said, you know what?
We don't care if your area has an unemployment
rate of 10%.
We don't care if there's no jobs in that area
and people need food stamps.
If you're not working, you can't have them.
The end of story, and that's exactly what
they're doing.
This is unfair, but more importantly, this
is cruel because at the same time they're
doing this, they're tightening regulations
on food stamps.
Okay.
There are loosening regulations on how many
toxins coal companies can put into our water
and into our air.
How many toxins chemical companies can pump
into our groundwater.
They're loosening regulations for the wealthy
elite and for corporations and tightening
them on poor people.
The Republican party because this is not just
a Trump thing.
Any other Republican would have done the exact
same thing because they have in the past.
The Republican party hates human beings.
They do, and you're lying to yourself if you
think that they don't.
If you're a human being whose net worth is
somewhere South of probably $25 million, you're
worthless scum to the Republican party.
They don't care about you.
They wish you nothing but the worst and hope
that that happens to you.
If you've got $25 million plus, they will
do whatever they can to take care of you.
You need me to take out this regulation?
I'm going to do it.
You need me to take this animal off the endangered
species list so you can kill what's left of
them so you can build a new factory?
We'll do it for you, but if you don't have
the money, then oh my God, you're a lazy piece
of crap.
We hope you fail in everything you do and
we're taking away all these benefits that
are keeping you alive.
That is the Republican party of today.
Anti-human, anti poor, pro-business and pro
wealthy.
And it didn't start with Donald Trump and
it's not gonna end with Donald Trump because
those are the only things the Republican party
of 2019 actually stand for.
Screw the poor, give everything we can to
the rich.
