Approximately 42 million Americans—about one in eight people—who participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program stand to go hungry after November 1, when benefits are scheduled to expire.

“Bottom line, the well has run dry,” reads a message explicitly blaming Democrats on the Department of Agriculture’s website.

A coalition of 23 attorneys general and three governors are fighting for the latter. They argue that the USDA not only has the funds to continue feeding Americans via SNAP through the month of November, it also has “both the authority and legal duty” to do so.

  • whiwake@sh.itjust.works
    1113·
    25 days ago

    Well, I don’t know if veterans deserve anything more than anyone else. They are just people who decided that they were willing to fight and kill for oil companies. Just add them to the list of normal people who use the benefits

    • ruuster13@lemmy.zip
      164·
      25 days ago

      Oh fuck this take. They were kids sold a lie by the powerful elite who had these goals. They get groomed and recruited out of ignorant conservative families then further brainwashed into a lifetime of authoritarian servitude. The GOP takes their entire lives away and lets them die early.

      • whiwake@sh.itjust.works
        77·
        25 days ago

        I mean, I was a kid sold a lie by the predatory education system and I got in a whole lot more debt than they got paid to be in the military. Where is my Lifetime of low Interest rates? Where is my lifetime of somewhat pathetic medical care… Compared to zero medical care.

        I don’t really care about the people who got brainwashed into being absolute fucking killer cunts. The United States should’ve learned this from Vietnam, when all those soldiers came back and no one wanted anything to do with them because… Guess what… They were the wrong ones.

        Baby killers

        Murderers

        Just following orders

        I don’t give a shit. Those kids wanted to kill people, and they were willing to kill people for practically nothing.

        If you are a veteran, I hope that if you believe in heaven that you realize that you’re going to hell… Because breaking the Commandments includes not murdering for any reason whatsoever including for your country.

    • AmbitiousProcess (they/them)@piefed.socialEnglish
      111·
      25 days ago

      I think what they’re rightly pointing out is not that veterans deserve more than anyone else, but that veterans are often centered in political discussions on the right when discussing people that “deserve” anything for “free” that could help improve or even just maintain their lives, and that it’s hypocritical to then effectively backtrack on that.

      • whiwake@sh.itjust.works
        78·
        25 days ago

        Veterans should get the same access as everyone else to every single thing they need. If that access means nothing then veterans get nothing. A person who wants to fight and kill babies for the oil industry doesn’t really deserve additional things in my book. Those people can get really good rates on loans for houses. I’m fine with that, that’s your thing. That’s all you get. Stop complaining. Everyone has it hard. Oh you did not want the mustard gas maybe you should not have gone into the fucking army?!