Maine Gov. Paul LePage Will Starve All The Poor People Unless He Can Deny Them Cake
Gov. Paul LePage is a bad person pt 4378938
Maine Gov. Paul LePage Will Starve All The Poor People Unless He Can Deny Them Cake
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Oh for joy! Another chapter in the thrilling Maine Governor Paul LePage Is The Worst Human On Earth Chronicles! What’s he up to this time? Is he suggesting that not letting people die from overdoses is basically like encouraging heroin use? Is he sharing his concern about black drug dealers coming into Maine and impregnating “young white girls?” Is he suggesting we bring back public executions with guillotines? No! But, weirdly, this new thing also kind of reminds us of Marie Antoinette! Except that now Gov. LePage very specifically does not want poor people to have cake! And yes, we know she did not actually say that, but whatever, it is thematic.
In his continuing quest to crack down on the statewide menace of people on food stamps actually eating food, LePage has decided he would like to ban SNAP recipients from using food stamps to buy sugary food and drinks. When he first proposed this to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, he was told that this was not do-able. Why? Because although it sounds like a “reasonable idea” in theory, it is not at all a feasible thing to do. First, as the USDA website explains, “no clear standards exist to define foods as good or bad, or healthy or not healthy.” Second, there are tons and tons of varieties of food products out there, and to spend all that time classifying them would require a lot of money and effort. Third, about 70 percent of all food stamp recipients only receive a portion of the maximum benefit and are thus expected to use some of their own money to buy food as well — meaning that implementing such a program is not actually going to prevent anyone from getting a soda once in a while. So, as it turns out, there’s no actual health benefit or monetary benefit to implementing such restrictions.
But LePage will not be moved! He wrote a second letter to Vilsack explaining that he will shut down the state’s SNAP program if the federal government won’t let him enact these restrictions, and the federal government will just have to run that themselves. Or something! It’s rather unclear! But he’s gonna do something about all those gross poor people guzzling Mountain Dew 24/7, and if he has to starve them to make that happen, then so be it!
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Wow! What a charming fella! He just cares so much about the health of Maine’s poor that he’s willing to put them all on a hunger strike until he gets his way! He and all the Maine taxpayers are just so tired of all these poor people they imagine are buying $29 dollars worth of Mars bars and Mountain Dew every week! And probably Pepperidge Farm cookies, because after all this is Maine we are talking about, remember. Just getting fat and unhealthy on the public dime! It just makes his gosh derned blood boil! Whatever happened to gruel, huh? Maybe if poor people were fed only gruel, they would all just go out and get jobs that paid a living wage instead of livin’ off the dole!
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Read more at http://wonkette.com/603236/maine-gov-paul-lepage-food-stamps-snap#g1wxdH3AgquqWX4X.99
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