Friday, March 25, 2011

If You Strike, We Won't Help You Eat

Are you F*&%#-ing kidding me?

Buried Provision in House GOP Bill Would Cut Off Food Stamps to Entire Families if One Member Strikes

H.R. 1135 contains this provision:

That's a family wide ban, for the actions of a single working member.


GOP to American Workers: "You'll take what we give and like it...and what we're giving - is taking."

(H/t Naked Capitalism)

Late Edit: Joke's on us, I guess... The law has read this way since 1981. Which raises the obvious question - if this is current law - why is this in the House bill?

2 comments:

AUL said...

You left out the part of the law that says "capiche!"

Surely this is a joke?

Unknown said...

Just because it's in a bill doesn't mean it has any hope of becoming law. But I think it's fair to damn the current GOP for their written aspirations.

What a bunch of thugs.