Iowa governor says it’s ‘not sustainable’ to give $40 per month to kids from low-income families for food
by bambin0
Iowa governor says it’s ‘not sustainable’ to give $40 per month to kids from low-income families for food
by bambin0
47 comments
When you vote for maga, this is the crap you get.
“An EBT card does nothing to promote nutrition at a time when childhood obesity has become an epidemic.”
Kids are fat and any food help keeps them fat, therefore kids should go hungry and be better off for it.
What a ghoul.
Curious how much in tax breaks Iowa gives to corporations.
Republican family values on display
“…’cause everyone knows hungry kids are just freeloaders, and should rot in hell. MAGA!!!” said the governors of Iowa and Nebraska.
Pro life not pro kid. Sad
The “Pro-life” leadership, folks.
And yet strangely, these kids’ parents will continue to vote Republican
Hungry kids for tax breaks for the rick.
Being evil 24/7 must be exhausting.
“Not sustainable” is code for “Poor people don’t deserve help, we think they are lazy, they’ll leech forever”. Discounting the “safety net” function of social programs, a way for folk to survive until they can overcome difficulties. In this case the miniscule budget and **children** being the target.. despicable.
I guess that’s one way to keep the young in line. Starve them so they can’t do any critical learning and thinking.
-Get fukt boomers.
But tax breaks for the wealthy and corporations in youre state are? Or tax incentives to big agriculture?
Wait til she finds out about the defense budget that just went through….
She’ll have her day. He’s gonna be fuckin pissed
You know what else isn’t sustainable?
Childhood hunger and malnourishment
Loaves and fish for only those with Apple Pay and a 401k
– GOPesus
it not sustainable to give Iowa 6.2 billion a year in federal funding ether. Iowa gets more in federal funding than they collect through taxes.
Fucking Republican monster. How about some more tax cuts for the rich?
Kim Reynolds, the Republican ghost of Christmas present! What is with the mentality of the Iowa electorate – their stupidity deserves the like of her and that fine upstanding example of masculine leadership, Gym Jordan.
And yet Republicans believe it’s “sustainable” to force women to be pregnant against their will and/or safety.
So she’s fine being number one for both soy and corn, which are both corporate welfare crops that contribute to highly refined foods but against child welfare? Got it, she’s scum.
The “Party of Personal Responsibility” refuses to care for their own kids
How fucking broke is Iowa that $2.2M is an “unsustainable” cost?
What a joke of a party
Eventually someone on the hard right is going to push someone to do something dumb, because finding where these monsters live is not exactly hard.
You can only push people so long before someone violently lashes out. Hey right wingers, this, right here, is government tyranny.
Iowa could easily feed starving kids with federal money but isn’t.
All it takes is one fucking kid dying to set off some parent to take vengeance on you.
This is not advocation of violence, this is simple fact. People will only get pushed so far.
God, how fucking depraved do you have to be to deny CHILDREN food?
Take it from her salary.
sure it is, the success of the school lunch program not only shows it’s possible, but shows it can be cheaper than our mainstream food supply chains eg: restaurants/grocery stores. The dirty secret is it shows how cheap it would be to just expand school lunch and just FEED EVERYONE WHO WANTS IT and it scales nicely to only a little more than what we are paying to feed just the schoolkids.
If this secret got out, people would demand socialised food at our schools, which are already equipped to provide it.
edit: while we’re at it, think about all those school busses sitting there doing nothing most of the time, all paid for- MOST municipalities could scale out their infrastructure just slightly and provide district-wide bus service to most of it’s residential and employment centers, without it costing much more than we’re already paying for most of the busses to just sit there most of the time serving schoolkids only.
As a New Yorker, I’d prefer that she keep spending my tax dollars on those kids.
Shrug. Time to move on from all these neo-confederates. Life is more interesting than anything they have to offer.
“Once you’re born, Conservatives don’t give a shit about you.”
-George Carlin
2.2 million dollars is literal pennies.
I don’t think her being governor will be sustainable come next election cycle.
I’d rather drop $35.5 billion a year feeding 74 million kids than spend $886 billion a year bombing them.
“Some American children must have less food” – Iowa.
Better they should die and decrease the surplus population.
Republican parents are out there in red states still paying for preschool and school lunches, and truly believing that it has to be that way.
They are brainwashed.
And Jesus said “See that fat guy over there? No way you’re getting this loaf of bread. Besides, who’s gonna pay for it?”
Oh you don’t think it’s a good benefit? How about we don’t use any federal funds for anything in Iowa? Let them figure themselves out because limited government and all that shit, like they voted for.
How sustainable are ethanol subsides? I really think we’re sending these companies the wrong message. They’re never going to grow up to become real companies.
My god that’s like 1.33 per day for breakfast lunch and dinner or 44 cents a meal…What are these kids eating, gold ??? /s
I wonder if Kim herself will go without eating/s Maybe she an get a copy of How to prepare grass recipes from Kim Jong Un.
The party of “America First” and “protect the children”, is refusing to help feed American children. F*cking hypocrites.
But it sustainable to probably give millions for corporate welfare and rich subsidies via tax breaks that return nothing.
I hope she feels good about herself when she sees children starving in the streets while she gets to eat like a queen. How low do these horrid specimens of human beings have to go.
If only Biden would pick up the phone and tell Iowa “You know what’s not sustainable? Your highway funding. It’s your call though.”
I personally found this part the most informative, “If the Biden Administration and Congress want to make a real commitment to family well-being, they should invest in already existing programs and infrastructure at the state level and give us the flexibility to tailor them to our state’s needs.”
Plain English: “Give us the money with no strings attached, and we will spend it as we see fit.”
I have never been to Iowa or Nebraska, so I have no idea why this is their policy position given the fairly marginal state cost, but my guess is labor shortages for the dirty agricultural jobs, but that is just a wild guess.