{"id":39450,"date":"2013-11-01T07:32:44","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T13:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/01\/im-sure-this-will-get-all-those-lazy-bums-off-their-butts.html"},"modified":"2013-11-01T10:06:35","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T16:06:35","slug":"im-sure-this-will-get-all-those-lazy-bums-off-their-butts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/01\/im-sure-this-will-get-all-those-lazy-bums-off-their-butts.html","title":{"rendered":"I&#39;m sure this will get all those lazy bums off their butts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">I mean, criminitely, people, all these Welfare Queens living high on the hog and fat on the taxpayer&#39;s teat with their lavish <b>$275.13<\/b> a month &#8212; I mean, that&#39;s an outrageously generous $3,302 a year, which is surely enough to dissuade anyone from going out and finding an honest living.\u00a0So hell, yeah, let&#39;s cut that fabulous largess by <b>13%<\/b> &#8212; I&#39;m sure there&#39;s a Koch Brother somewhere who\u00a0needs a new yacht more than some little kid needs breakfast!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/108404515213153345305'>Breaking News<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Families brace for impact of food stamp cuts<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/114810779645279671611\" class=\"proflink\" oid=\"114810779645279671611\">NBC News<\/a><\/span>: Sweeping cuts to U.S. food stamps will kick in today and many people who depend on the program to put breakfast, lunch and dinner on the table are bracing for the impact.<\/p>\n<p>The automatic cuts, which total about $5 billion, are a result of the expiration of temporary funds from a 2009 stimulus.<\/p>\n<p>Americans are expected to suffer an average loss of $36 a month from a $275.13 per household benefit. There are a near-record 47.6 million Americans, representing 23.1 million households, on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.<\/p>\n<p><b>Read more<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/nbcnews.to\/1aMuQ2X\" class=\"ot-anchor\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/nbcnews.to\/1aMuQ2X<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Photo<\/b>: A sign in a market window advertises the acceptance of food stamps in New York City. (Getty Images, via NBCNews.com)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class='gpb-photo-primary'><img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-P65l8TlZcRM\/UnOmwQgjQHI\/AAAAAAABUnQ\/EWlgxwGYOwg\/130517-food-stamps-348p.photoblog600.jpg?imgmax=1600' border='0' style='max-width:100%;' \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/QUa97xJNfMB' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mean, criminitely, people, all these Welfare Queens living high on the hog and fat on the taxpayer&#39;s teat with their lavish $275.13 a month &#8212; I mean, that&#39;s an outrageously generous $3,302 a year, which is surely enough to dissuade anyone from going out and finding an honest living.\u00a0So hell, yeah, let&#39;s cut that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/01\/im-sure-this-will-get-all-those-lazy-bums-off-their-butts.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I&#39;m sure this will get all those lazy bums off their butts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,376],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-taxing-spending"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31054,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/29\/wait-now-the-conservatives-want-to-preserve-fema-funding.html","url_meta":{"origin":39450,"position":0},"title":"Wait &#8230; NOW the Conservatives want to preserve FEMA funding?","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 29-Oct-12 11:20am","format":false,"excerpt":"Breitbart.com notes an Administration report in September describing\u00a0the impact of sequestration cuts on the whole of the Federal budget\u00a0-- including FEMA -- and conveniently interpreting it as a \"proposal\" to slash the emergency response department's budget by $900MM.The sequestration law was an awful idea, a case of \"kick the grenade\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":133704,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/18\/tweetizen-trump-2017-06-18-happy-fathers-day.html","url_meta":{"origin":39450,"position":1},"title":"Tweetizen Trump &#8211; 2017-06-18: &quot;Happy Fathers Day!&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 18-Jun-17 3:24pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Donald, Happy Fathers Day. 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