He doesn’t believe in welfare… I see. But what about this welfare?
Pork processor partially owned by Pillen gets $25 million federal grant
Or what about the time he got got $7.8M in pandemic loans and only paid back 2/3 of it. The rest was forgiven. What about the hundreds of thousands he takes every year in federal subsidies? He seems to like that kind of welfare.
“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” Projection as always…
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.
Remember, Republicans only care about fetuses. They don’t care about babies and kids.
The birthed children need to starve so they can be told they’re starving because of democrats.
Every farmer in that state receives welfare. Every fucking farmer benefits from agricultural subsidies.
The governor believes in federal welfare, just not welfare that directly benefits kids.
Except to our farmers. Well subsidize the shit out of them.
Or even his “holy” rich supporters.
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But he’s okay with PPP loans being forgiven and also gets USDA subsidies for Pillen Family farms. Source: https://projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/bailouts/search?q=Pillen&v=1 Source:https://farm.ewg.org/persondetail.php?custnumber=A09760551
Those entitled brats made a deal with the devil when they took the money. Greed got the better of them. It always does.
So he is not a christian?
He is like Trump. He’ll pretend to be whatever you want to believe as long as you give him money. Then he’ll rape your kids.
And then quote the Bible afterwards and parents send the kids back for another round
Not before putting you on your knee for the utmost important expression of apologies and regret.
And give a tax break or something to some multi million <enter choice of currency here> business.
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He’s Christian by name only. It’s not exactly a nice and tidy acronym but I call these types C.U.N.T.S.
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.
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).
So he pays for his campaign out of his own pocket? He doesn’t collect donations. Surely.
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.
So… He wouldn’t mind if the government withholds any financial aid to the state from now on, right?
not like that!™
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.
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.
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
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.
If you don’t believe in a problem, it simply goes away /s
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.
Just need to get those little tykes their own LLCs and then they can have their lawyers file for federal aid!
I see he also self identifies as a Christian… I’m not one to judge, but I once read that countries with the word “democratic” in their names seldom were.
What do you mean? The Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea is the best Korea! Lol
The way that he is opting out is by refusing to spend the ~$300k that is the federal government’s requirement to be part of the grant program. I wonder if it would be possible to do an end run around that waste of oxygen, and have a charity raise the ~$300k and accept the $18m the federal government is offering, to be distributed by the charity instead…
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Dehumanizing and othering are fascist tact, leave that to the fascists.
Edit: othering isn’t, I stand corrected.
Fact: Fascists are subhuman
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.
No more austerity. No more immunity. No more get out of jail free cards.
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!
Meh, republicans aren’t people and I’m tired of pretending they are. They’re more akin to zombies I’d say.
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.
You cut that shit out right now.
It is reaping what you sow… and they are not alone.
“Reaping what you sow” is one thing, but it is never reducing our enemies to less than human. Not now, not ever.
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
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.
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.
We could just villify them. They stand in the way of freedom for anyone who doesn’t want to live under a theocracy.
You certainly sound like tolerant person.
Lmao fascist enablers get the boot just the same as everyone else.
Fuck tolerating pieces of shit.
Flush them at every opportunity.
Tolerance is a social contract. RepubliQans have obliterated that. Therefore, we’re not tolerant of them.
If they would like to re-enter that contract they can not be republiQans.
Sounds like a real swell guy.
