Christie Rejects Food Aid Giving $54 for Each $1 Paid

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-15/christie-rejects-food-aid-giving-54-for-each-1-paid.html



Three states are ending a program that qualified residents for extra food paid for by the federal government -- including two, New Jersey and Wisconsin, that are led by potential Republican presidential candidates.

Congress in February passed a law to raise the costs of so-called heat-and-eat programs. Such initiatives had allowed states to give residents as little as $1 a year in home-heating assistance to qualify for an average of $1,080 a year in added food stamps. The new minimum state contribution is $20 per household a year, and Chris Christie’s New Jersey, Scott Walker’s Wisconsin as well as Michigan are taking a pass.

Christie said a proposal to let New Jersey participate in the program didn’t require recipients to show they needed heating assistance, a violation of new federal guidelines.

“Distribution of benefits without regard to actual heating and cooling expenses as envisioned in this bill is clearly impermissible,” Christie wrote to the state’s General Assembly in vetoing a measure to qualify the state for a program that gives $54 in federal money for every $1 the state spends.

[merrily]

1. Humans who can stand for other humans to be hungry long term are shits.

No apology for the crude language.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

2. We only have legislation such as EMLA (that forces hospitals to provide emergency medical

treatment to the indigent) because people like Christie knew that they couldn't get re-elected if they came out and said people should be left to die in the streets if they couldn't pay for healthcare. But slow starvation or dying of hypothermia is slow enough that they can still get re-elected by killing people off that much more slowly.

[merrily]

3. Akin to "death panels," perhaps, only much worse because

the so called death panels were for end of life patients and not otherwise healthy families?

[roguevalley]

13. He's a loathsome toad. His wretchedness hangs on him in

his excess weight. If he actually could feel a real emotion, he would look different. You have to be pure evil to do what he does. Loathsome gaping morass of evil. His outsides reflect his insides.

[Enthusiast]

4. And just when I thought I couldn't think any less of Christie.

[edhopper]

5. Wake the fuck up

New Jersey!

http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/09/christies_approval_rating_inches_up_from_bridge_scandal_low_poll_finds.html

Really? 46% approval and only 40% disapprove? What the fuck is wrong with you. Are you too stupid to see he is destroying and plundering your state?

[Stellar]

11. Melissa Harris-Perry

has been trying to warn them since early in 2013. What is wrong with those people!?

http://crooksandliars.com/heather/melissa-harris-perry-tells-chris-christie-t

[wordpix]

6. Christie could feed thousands if he

gave his personal food budget to the poor

[shenmue]

8. You beat me to it

I didn't want to be crass, but he deserves it.

[joeglow3]

9. Thank goodness making fun of fat people is allowed in DU

How else could we communicate our thoughts without making denigrating remarks about people's weight.

[mountain grammy]

7. That fat greedy fuck! He belongs in prison..

[Beach Rat]

10. He does belong in prison-he's just a bad person

I have to tell you, I won't need (hopefully) the assistance of any programs, but it's been chilly the last few nights and I just had the discussion with my wife this morning about having to adjust our budget for the coming oil deliveries were going to need. The heat WILL have to go on sometime in the next month. We're just getting by now and its probably going to be a rough winter. This is a very high cost of living state. This asshole thinks his presidential ambitions are more important than the people he's sworn to serve.

Even his own toney home town has people struggling just to get by. I wish I believed in hell because I know there would be a place (maybe not enough room) for him there. I'll have to be content with believing that what goes 'round comes 'round.

How many in your town are struggling to make ends meet?

A new report from the United Way of Northern New Jersey shows that 38 percent of state households are struggling to meet basic needs with the high cost of living in the Garden State.

The report, called ALICE (Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed), paints a stark picture of how widespread financial hardship like Ticehurst’s is in New Jersey.

Though New Jersey is one of the wealthiest states in the country, it also costs more to like here than most parts of the United States.

While 11 percent of state residents fall below the Federal Poverty Line, which stands at an annual income of $22,811 for a family of four, the report found that when adjusted for cost of living the same family needs nearly triple that -- $61,200 – just to meet a basic survival budget.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2014/09/interactive_map_how_many_in_your_town_are_struggling_to_make_ends_meet_1.html

[Coventina]

12. I love how Conservatives love to talk about running gov't like a business.....

Real smart business decision there, genius.