Oh, the humanity!

Fun party favor to pass out to street beggars in lieu of cash, along with saying, “I gave at the office”

Trump proposes requiring 688,000 freeloaders on food stamps to work or train after relaxing for three months at taxpayers’ expense, and the screams of anguish are heard throughout the land. Here’s the deal: out of 36 miullion food stamp recipients, 688,000 are able-bodied adults, with no dependents, and thus presumably available to fit 20 hours of work or job training into thir busy schedule. Current law limits their time-off vacation to three months, and after that, it’s get off your butt and go to work, go to school, or get off the dole. Seems fair to me: why should everyone else have to get up at the same hour every day and go to work while these loafers can hang around sucking doobies at real workers’ expense?

So that’s the law; trouble is, some states have been granting waivers to the deadbeats and allowing them to collect food stamps forever, and using federal tax money to fund the state legislators’ largess. Trump has proposed restricting the states power to grant such waivers and returning to the existing law. This is cruel? There are those who say that fostering and encouraging indolence is cruel, because it strips a person of dignity and any sense of self-worth. Liberals enjoy the prospect of making others wards of the state, but the individuals themselves don’t seem to be benefitting from the experience. They’re trapped in a cycle of poverty; Trump wants to encourage them to break out of that cycle, liberals wants them to stay exactly where they are. “We’ll make them all beggars, ‘cause they’re easy to please” runs the lyric, and liberals know that song by heart.

UPDATE: Excellent debunking of OCS’s claim that people are going to starve because of this.

UPDATE: At least one Democrat candidate is on board with this, or should be:

"The culture of welfare must be replaced with the culture of work," Biden said on the Senate floor. "The culture of dependence must be replaced with the culture of self-sufficiency and personal responsibility. And, the culture of permanence must no longer be a way of life."

Mind you, he said that in 1996, and has less enthusiasm for workfare today. What changed? Well, in one word, Trump.