There are no ‘Moderate Republicans’ - Iowa Gov turns down $40/m for poor kids while school is out

Iowa won’t participate in US food assistance program for kids this summer

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa will not participate this summer in a federal program that gives $40 per month to each child in a low-income family to help with food costs while school is out, state officials have announced.

The state has notified the U.S. Department of Agriculture that it will not participate in the 2024 Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children — or Summer EBT — program, the state’s Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Education said in a Friday news release.

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I’m sure this has nothing to do with her endorsing DeSantis and the Far Right Base attacking her relentlessly and needing to shore up her ‘conservative/cruelty’ bona fides.

The fuck is wrong with these ghouls?!?!?

UA- It doesn't matter your feeeelings; it's moral because math! *Shows bad math*

WF- *Corrects his math*

UA- You're all stupid!! You're all stupid!! Everyone's stupid but meeeee!!!!

Oh, he needs to get in the sub. In the sub right now.

1. Studies have shown that periods of starvation induce epigenetic changes that mean subsequent generations are prone to obesity.
2. Harry Truman created the School Lunch Program because it was discovered during WWII that large numbers of people were unfit for military service due to the fact that they didn't get enough to eat while they were growing up during the Great Depression.
3. The US government currently has 1.4 billion pounds of government cheese in storage.

All I'm asking is for one hour in the cheese room with one shopping cart.

Let them have a natural disaster, say an outbreak of a dozen tornados, and then tell their folks that they don't want any of that filthy FEMA money

I'll take "How Do You Make the Best Goddamned Grilled Cheese Sandwich Ever" for $100, LeVar.

Iowa used to be a bellwether state. You could get a good sense of the country by visiting Iowa. Not anymore!

Reaganomics!!!

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What if we can?

Children who live in households that can't afford food are statistically much more likely to become criminals. Therefore, we have to force the parents to take responsibility by denying food assistance.

That’s like “the beatings will continue until morale improves.”

Yep.

Just to be clear, that is not my actual opinion. I was mocking Uncle Albert.

That is happy hour at the local masochist dungeon.

If you mean Reynolds, it's "she."

Lest anyone get the mistaken impression that female Republicans are any less intentionally cruel or any more concerned with the well-being of children than their male counterparts.

Yes, my mistake. She needs to get in the sub.

Seems like they are only “pro-life” until… well… actual life.

It is much harder for a poor white religious person to be cruel to a child from a family who was prepared financially to have them. It is much easier to be cruel to single mothers and the children of poor families who do not have the finances or support structure to back them up. So when you are a cruel son of a bitch who gets joy out of kicking people, it is much easier to get that joy when those kids and families are already struggling. Not to mention it is a way for sexist to kick women and blame it on a noble defense of caring for children.

Anti-abortion is all about kicking people.

I could see an anti-abortionist kicking a pregnant woman for wanting an abortion, causing a miscarriage, prompting the mother to get arrested...

It is like the cop getting mad at the unarmed black man he beat up for getting blood on his uniform and then charging him with assault for bleeding on him.

They aren't pro-life, they are anti-women.