Iowa Governor blocks $40 per month food assistance program for low income families, says kids are already too fat

[Buddy]

@F*ckthemkids

 

[88m3]

if children were allowed to work this wouldn't be problem

 

[F*ckthemkids]

@F*ckthemkids

 

[get these nets]

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The state has notified the U.S. Department of Agriculture that it will not participate in the 2024 Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children — or Summer EBT — program, the state’s Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Education said in a Friday news release.

“Federal COVID-era cash benefit programs are not sustainable and don’t provide long-term solutions for the issues impacting children and families. An EBT card does nothing to promote nutrition at a time when childhood obesity has become an epidemic,” Iowa Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds said in the news release.

She added, “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.”

If the comment from her was genuine, she would have followed it up with the state's plans to use existing programs and infrastructure to address the mounting food insecurity issue. Her alternative to participating in the program.

I used to give state-wide elected officials the benefit of the doubt when they banged against the feds when the other party held the presidency. Because for all the political theatre of these kinds of public comments, they are still accountable to a state full of people.
And in this case, she is accountable to a state with a fair amount of rural poor white people.

But you can't give politicians the benefit of the doubt. This isn't even grandstanding for the cameras. MFers are really gonna leave their constituents high and dry.

 

[Scustin Bieburr]

This is what many Iowans voted for though



I feel bad for those who didn't. At some point white people are going to need to stop voting against their own self interest. Their racism and hyper individualism is seriously holding the country back. Its going to take a deep cultural change.

They don't care. The psychological wage of whiteness in the caste system we have in this country where white people are at the top and black people at the bottom is so strong that they are willing to literally DIE if it means they maintain their position in the hierarchy.

The interesting thing though is the demographics. When you look at the voter breakdown, people under the age of 40 are generally voting more for politicians who don't do shyt like this because being at the top of the caste system doesn't mean anything to them if they've had a college degree for 10 years and are sinking further and further into debt as they struggle to make ends meet. Younger white people can easily debunk the bullshyt that older white people try to feed them by just....talking to black people and examining their own material conditions. The promise of whiteness that the rich whites gave the less well-off to keep them in line isn't holding up. You can't get a 5 bedroom house in the suburbs off a high school degree anymore. You can't get a job by just showing up to the place and asking if they have openings, then chit chatting with the boss and getting hired. The shyt you're supposed to have been guaranteed for just being white isn't being given to you anymore.

In the past, white people could hold their fukked up opinions and beliefs without any contradictory evidence. You live in a white town, the only black people you interact with are c00ning either as a survival mechanism or because their minds weren't strong enough to resist the programming in mainstream media telling them that white people are just inherently better in every way. You turn on the news, you watch shows, you engage with media that all tells you that it's other people's fault that they're struggling and that white people are just doing better because the world is fair and they've made better choices. That is how the republican mind is created and maintained.

In modern times, people go online to post some bullshyt opinion informed by the context I described above, and then get dozens of comments from black and white people alike breaking down that opinion and telling them exactly how, why, and what is wrong about what they expressed. They get immediate pushback and are bewildered because the propaganda they were fed in school, through white owned media, and from their own racist friends and relatives did not prepare them to actually defend their positions. The cultural change is happening in large part because of the internet. Communicating with other people, seeing how they live, and learning history has never been easier than before. A politician can tell you that it's 'too expensive' to do something and you then immediately see a tik tok video debunking all that bullshyt and telling you exactly what that tax money the politician doesn't want to spend is going.

 

[Marc Spector]

If the comment from her was genuine, she would have followed it up with the state's plans to use existing programs and infrastructure to address the mounting food insecurity issue. Her alternative to participating in the program.

I used to give state-wide elected officials the benefit of the doubt when they banged against the feds when the other party held the presidency. Because for all the political theatre of these kinds of public comments, they are still accountable to a state full of people.
And in this case, she is accountable to a state with a fair amount of rural poor white people.

But you can't give politicians the benefit of the doubt. This isn't even grandstanding for the cameras. MFers are really gonna leave their constituents high and dry.

basically what I was going to say. States choosing to implement their own programs over federal funding (but you usually have to spend the money in a very constrained way) isn’t necessarily a bad thing.


The issue is, these Republican governors are not interested in actually solving the problem. Theyre only turning down the money to throw meat to their base and show that they are not “pawns to the Biden welfare agenda”.

The federal program Nebraska is participating in actually sounds very promising and is in line with a lot of my thoughts about welfare services (welfare should be holistic and aim to get people, especially children, involved in the community along with the resources they need to live).

But I seriously doubt that the governors office is going to actually be tracking the efficiency of this program .

 

[acri1]

She probably thinks the money will go to "lazy" black people.

The black population of Iowa is only 4% though so she's really only screwing over white women and kids. Sucks for them, maybe they'll vote her out

 

[Uachet]

IOWA
White: 87.93% Two or more races: 3.89% Black or African American: 3.74%

There are so few of our people there, that really her policies mainly harm her own people. Since I am pretty sure most of our people there vote Democratic (only about 100k of us there), there is nothing more that our people can do. The rest is on the shoulders of White People.

 

[Heavy_Handz]

There’s more white people on welfare than anybody else. This isn’t a race issue. Them CAC kids obese already

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

The thread title

 

[MidwestD]

#bothsides all loses

 

[bnew]

 

[ORDER_66]

#bothsides all loses

how the fukk did bothsides lose in this case. wouldnt the losers be the people who VOTED for her to be in office????

 

[RadaMillz]

governor u say? with a statement like that she has the fine making of a GOP presidential candidate
poor whites love to vote against their interest, you deny them basic food and they will deliver you to the white house as their representative

 

[Da King]

you get what you vote for iowans...

Exactly, zero sympathy for those poor cacs that voted for her