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
    242·
    11 months ago

    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
      61·
      11 months ago

      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@lemmy.ml
      6·
      11 months ago

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

    • neptune@dmv.socialEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

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

    • Itsamemario@lemmy.world
      9·
      11 months ago

      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@lemmy.ml
          1·
          11 months ago

          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
      19·
      11 months ago

      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
    89·
    11 months ago

    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
      13·
      11 months ago

      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.

      • KᑌᔕᕼIᗩ@lemmy.mlEnglish
        6·
        11 months ago

        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
    75·
    11 months ago

    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

    • Hylactor@sopuli.xyz
      10·
      11 months ago

      I would very much appreciate if a wonk can swing in and layout all the subsidies this guy/Nebraska benefit from.

    • EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world
      44·
      11 months ago

      Dehumanizing and othering are fascist tact, leave that to the fascists.

      Edit: othering isn’t, I stand corrected.

      • Optional@lemmy.world
        5·
        11 months ago

        They have destroyed the social contract of tolerance. So i’ll “other” them as i like because they chose that.

        We’re done here. Literally - they’ve destroyed the climate, the holocene extinction is happening right now and right-wing fascists the world over are responsible. We’ve debated, they lost. This is what that looks like.

        They must be called to account and the only way that happens is by destroying their collective immunity.

        • EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world
          1·
          11 months ago

          You know, that’s a good point - othering them is us not tolerating their intolerance, and you’re on point with everything, here. I believe the flaw was with me, listing othering with dehumanization as though they were remotely equal in impact or offense.

          I appreciate the discourse, thanks for contributing!

      • 5in1k@lemm.ee
        1·
        11 months ago

        Meh, republicans aren’t people and I’m tired of pretending they are. They’re more akin to zombies I’d say.

    • drislands@lemmy.world
      20·
      11 months ago

      You cut that shit out right now.

      They’re reprehensible, obviously. But that doesn’t make that not human. That’s the same kind of rhetoric that leads to folks believing they could never make bad or evil choices, because “only a monster would make that choice, and I’m not a monster”.

      And then you think no choice you make can be that bad, because you’re a good person after all. This is precisely the kind of train of thought that the modern-day Republicans have when they take away human rights, and you should never allow yourself to fall into this trap.

      • werty@lemmy.ml
        9·
        11 months ago

        You cut that shit out right now.

        It is reaping what you sow… and they are not alone.

        • drislands@lemmy.world
          1·
          11 months ago

          “Reaping what you sow” is one thing, but it is never reducing our enemies to less than human. Not now, not ever.

      • Facebones@reddthat.com
        2·
        11 months ago

        Calling evil evil is not equally evil.

        Standing up to evil is not equally evil.

        Defending one’s self from violence is not equally violent.

        Etc etc.

        #PunchMoreNazis

        • drislands@lemmy.world
          1·
          11 months ago

          None of that is the same as classifying your enemies as not human. That road leads to genocide and fascism and we are above that.

          • Facebones@reddthat.com
            2·
            11 months ago

            Wait til you hear about the Republican frontrunner then.

            Obviously better to police the language of niche leftists on the internet though for calling evil evil though. 🙄

            When people tell you who they are, believe them.

    • PorkRoll@lemmy.world
      12·
      11 months ago

      We could just villify them. They stand in the way of freedom for anyone who doesn’t want to live under a theocracy.

  • Daft_ish@lemmy.world
    54·
    11 months ago

    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
      16·
      11 months ago

      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).

  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
    46·
    11 months ago

    “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 months ago

    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 months ago

      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 months ago

        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 months ago

          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.