Talk about pushing your religious views on to people so poor as to need government assistance. This is more of the fundamentalist rights war on women. Look at the things the republicans have pushed, removing a woman’s right to her own reproductive care via abortion, removing a woman’s right to contraception, in 7 states the republicans are trying to outlaw no-fault divorce thinking it will force people to stay married, and of course outlawing anything but straight relations by overturning the right of marriage equality. This guy wants to force low income women to marry a guy, any guy, to be able to have a place to live. Plus the guy is a white supremacists racist. Hugs
“For whatever reason, the people who put together this bill, knew we needed work requirements for SNAP but they said we shouldn’t have them for Medicaid, which kind of, I predicted. But they left low-income housing untouched.
“I think as far as discouraging work and discouraging marriage, I think low-income housing is even a more dangerous program than the food stamps.
“So, I’m including low-income housing in the mix of having work requirements. The amendment is drafted to include Section 8 housing, which is an error on my part because there are other low-income housings as well.
“But that’s what we have before us.” – GOP Rep. Glenn Grothman, during last night’s House Rules Committee debate on the debt ceiling bill.
Grothman appeared here last week when he complained that Biden won’t nominate “straight white guys” to the federal judiciary.
He also appeared here in January 2023 when he posted a flag associated with the Christian nationalist movement outside his Capitol office.
Months earlier he gave a floor speech condemning the US Census for collecting data on LGBTQ Americans, which he found “horrifying.”
Before that he appeared here in June 2021 when he authored a bill that would ban teaching the history of racism in Washington DC public schools.
His first appearance here came in September 2011 when as a Wisconsin state senator he authored a successful bill that banned mentioning contraception in sex ed classes.
Grothman opposes recognizing Kwanzaa and Martin Luther King Jr. Day as state holidays. In 2015, he authored a bill to place a ban on same-sex marriage in the US Constitution.
Grothman: They left low income housing untouched. I think as far as discouraging work and marriage, I think low income housing is a more dangerous program than food stamps. pic.twitter.com/XpgiREMlAy
And they’re also horrified that poor people have decent smartphones – which might be their only connection to email and the rest of the internet, for school, finding jobs, keeping jobs, as well as being informed, entertained, and socially connected like more well-off folks.
They are complete monsters! Anyone who thinks of food stamps and low-income housing as “horrifying” is a heartless POS in my book. God forbid we should try to help the poor without making them jump through a bunch of hoops first. I hate these right-wing ghouls with a passion!
Not everyone can or WANTS to get married and have children. I know it sure as hell wasn’t for me. I still have to eat and pay rent. These assholes want to control every aspect of our lives. Next up, rules for how poor people brush their teeth and get dressed in the morning?
You know what discourages marriage and having children? The cost of living which has been too high for a long time, but has now soared through the roof. And what is the QAnonGOP’s plan to bring down the cost of living? Ban drag shows and investigate Hunter Biden.
You know what also dissuades younger people from getting married? Crushing college debt. A lot of those kids can’t afford a house, and put off marriage, until they’re in better financial shape, but this chud doesn’t want to actually do anything to fix that problem…does he? Guess what? He really doesn’t care about people getting married. He’s just looking for any reason to be a dick.
Not everyone needs to go to college, but those in the trades who went from apprentice to journeyman to master and other skill paths are also being crushed by energy sector price gouging, food price gouging and many other factors that dissuade them from getting married and starting a family.
TRANSLATION – ‘We need to manage the poors like we do a commercial livestock operation, ensuring that we get sufficient return on our investment of feed and shelter’.
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Heh. That guy forgets his recent history. They tried that under Reagan, and again with “welfare reform” under Clinton, and ended up worse off than before. Governors and/or state legislatures have tried it up to the point they don’t mess up federally. It always backfires in a big way, and nobody gets married. As to marriage, it’s been tried to do away with “no-fault” divorce, but men keep getting embarrassed by women who make sure the men are caught, then their marital transgressions are public record. They can’t have the men being embarrassed publicly!
I understand their points, though I abhor them. As to right-wing repro health, well. It is absolutely a war on women. For some reason, it seems important to point out that a universal basic income for all would solve a lot of problems, and likely make people nicer and more willing to mind their own business.
Interesting, his comments on low-income housing, he really wouldn’t like the UK, and our right-wing government putting more money into social welfare. (and getting canned by the Left for it not being enough).
He lives in his own world of privilege doesn’t he?
Yes, that particular RW point about marriage presumes that if a woman has no options and a baby on the way, she’ll marry the father, he’ll go to work, they’ll become a productive family, and all will be well.
They also know that’s bull compucky. I bet this same guy will come back another time with the work requirements, and there will be no leaving females out of that. Which is contradictory, of course, but it’s why the RW is famous for their cognitive dissonance.
Quite so Ali.
The extremes of politics, on both sides have holes you could drive two combine harvesters abreast through.
True we need some ginger to get things moving but it is in the middle of the road where true progress is conducted and the job gets done.
Back in the 60s The Kennedy team had progressive ideas but were to be brutally honest too elitist to ‘Work The House’. Jack Kennedy was affable enough but his team…not so much. It took LBJ with his mix of pragmatism, required dirty tricks at arm twisting, pork barrel and a looming personality to get the job done…If only he had kept out of Vietnam he would have been one of The Great Reformers.
PS: Sit up man! Don’t slouch! You look like a sack of lower quality vegetables at the end of a day’s trading. You are a legislator. At least try to look like one!
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Heh. That guy forgets his recent history. They tried that under Reagan, and again with “welfare reform” under Clinton, and ended up worse off than before. Governors and/or state legislatures have tried it up to the point they don’t mess up federally. It always backfires in a big way, and nobody gets married. As to marriage, it’s been tried to do away with “no-fault” divorce, but men keep getting embarrassed by women who make sure the men are caught, then their marital transgressions are public record. They can’t have the men being embarrassed publicly!
I understand their points, though I abhor them. As to right-wing repro health, well. It is absolutely a war on women. For some reason, it seems important to point out that a universal basic income for all would solve a lot of problems, and likely make people nicer and more willing to mind their own business.
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Also, please read this from MoJo; https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/05/all-floridians-should-be-worried-about-desantis-new-anti-immigration-law/ .
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Interesting, his comments on low-income housing, he really wouldn’t like the UK, and our right-wing government putting more money into social welfare. (and getting canned by the Left for it not being enough).
He lives in his own world of privilege doesn’t he?
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Yes, that particular RW point about marriage presumes that if a woman has no options and a baby on the way, she’ll marry the father, he’ll go to work, they’ll become a productive family, and all will be well.
They also know that’s bull compucky. I bet this same guy will come back another time with the work requirements, and there will be no leaving females out of that. Which is contradictory, of course, but it’s why the RW is famous for their cognitive dissonance.
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Quite so Ali.
The extremes of politics, on both sides have holes you could drive two combine harvesters abreast through.
True we need some ginger to get things moving but it is in the middle of the road where true progress is conducted and the job gets done.
Back in the 60s The Kennedy team had progressive ideas but were to be brutally honest too elitist to ‘Work The House’. Jack Kennedy was affable enough but his team…not so much. It took LBJ with his mix of pragmatism, required dirty tricks at arm twisting, pork barrel and a looming personality to get the job done…If only he had kept out of Vietnam he would have been one of The Great Reformers.
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PS: Sit up man! Don’t slouch! You look like a sack of lower quality vegetables at the end of a day’s trading. You are a legislator. At least try to look like one!
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