Look folks our state population is suffering. The only thing we can do now is deny the children here proper nutrition. That way they are stunted and too dumb to leave the state. Now before you start protesting and saying this won't work. I say it will, because it has! Just ask your parents.
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The governor doesn't believe in welfare, so Nebraska is just going to let those kids starve.
governor doesn't believe in welfare
Excellent. Then, we can stop sending federal aid to Nebraska now.
I would love for us to be able to do that without harming people who are not responsible for the governor's actions and are stuck in Nebraska (which seems like punishment enough).
Me too. I think the solution is to take whatever funds Nebraska would have gotten and provide them directly to the Nebraskans in need. This would remove the conservative Nebraskan government's ability to misapropriate those funds. We can solve a lot of problems at once by removing conservatives from the equation.
Sure, some of the funds would need to be spent developing distribution infrastructure, but at least the money wouldn't be stolen by the local conservatives. It would actually go to the Nebraskans in need.
I think we'd see a lot of domestic terrorism if that happened.
Conservatives are going to terrorize any time they don't get their way. Whenever any resistance is offered to their attempts to oppress others, they will respond with violence or threats of violence. That's just who conservatives are at their core.
We should never, ever let conservative violence dissuade us from resisting.
Other states could offer relocation benefits to Nebraskans who are only there because moving is expensive. Let those states take a piece of the federal aid that would have gone to Nebraska proportional to the number of its residents they've taken in that year. Maybe for a number of years after too but it'd take someone more math/economics inclined than me to say how much or how long. Let them have the decrepit, backwards, rotting Republican utopia they dream of without the hostages.
It won't happen and there are tons of flaws with the idea. Still, I enjoy the thought of a world where this would have consequences on somebody other than the people directly harmed by these bad policies and decisions.
Does this mean we can finally end the ridiculous ethanol subsidies? Both Iowa and Nebraska have come out as anti-welfare so it's the only logical next step.
You mean ethanol welfare, a subsidy is just welfare for a business...
Yeah that's why I conflated the two.
Plus, creating ethanol from corn uses ridiculous amounts of energy and groundwater.
It's weird how just one douchebag can ruin so many lives in a democracy.
He's representing the majority of his state. They're the ones that enable him to do this. He's not doing it out of thin air.
They're cheering this on, not opposing it.
Yeah, I get that. Though I doubt undernourished children and most of their parents (some people are truly terrible, so I would not be surprised if there are some cheering on their own children being denied federal funds for food) are cheering it on.
I guarantee there are families all over this state who will say, "government never helped me" while driving their farm truck (which they could afford through farming subsidies) full of untaxed farm fuel down their freshly plowed street.
There's also a large susset that will continue to vote for Republicans because those Republicans convince them that the government can't help them. They never put together that the Republicans they keep electing are the reason.
As soon as it comes out of the womb they don’t give a shit. Actually they don’t even care when it’s in the womb either they just want control
Yup. Many of them are still upset that women have The Pill. Drives 'em crazy. Radicals like Coke Can Clarence signaled they'd like to do something about it, too.
Seriously, this guy needs to fuck off into the nether.
Alternate headline. Nebraska gov blocks food for starving kids
They're just trying to encourage the hungry children to get jobs.
They need to pull themselves up by their Oshkosh bootie straps.
If he could just walk into the ocean forever, that'd be great
Too bad Nebraska is triply-landlocked
I'll buy him a bus ticket
This is the best summary I could come up with:
(AP) — Nebraska’s Republican governor on Friday reiterated his rejection of $18 million in federal funding to help feed children who might otherwise go hungry while school is out.
That statement came as advocates for children and low-income families held a news conference outside the Governor’s Mansion in Lincoln to call on Pillen to change his mind before the Jan. 1 deadline to sign up for the program.
The program — part of federal assistance made available during the COVID-19 pandemic — would provide pre-loaded EBT cards to families whose children are eligible for free and reduced-price lunches at school.
Kim Reynolds announcing that decision last week and saying, “An EBT card does nothing to promote nutrition at a time when childhood obesity has become an epidemic.”
Pillen insisted Friday that the state would continue to help food-insecure children through the Summer Food Service Program, which provides meals and snacks at various sites when school is not in session.
Preston Love Jr,, a longtime community advocate in Omaha, on Friday questioned whether Pillen was bowing to political pressure in rejecting the federal funding.
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What kind of stupid asshat turns down free money for feeding kids!??!
Because he’ll use state’s funds to feed them right? He’ll use state funds to feed them…
The cruelty is the point; a huge chunk of reich-wingers are literal psychopaths, and the sooner people understand that the better.
In the present research (N = 675), we focus on the relationship between the dark side of human personality and political orientation and extremism, respectively, in the course of a presidential election where the two candidates represent either left-wing or right-wing political policies. Narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and everyday sadism were associated with right-wing political orientation, whereas narcissism and psychopathy were associated with political extremism. Moreover, the relationships between personality and right-wing political orientation and extremism, respectively, were relatively independent from each other.
We found eleven significant correlations between conservative [Moral Intuition Survey] judgments and the Dark Triad – all at significance level of p<.00001 – and no significant correlations between liberal [Moral Intuition Survey] judgments and the Dark Triad. We believe that these results raise provocative moral questions about the personality bases of moral judgments. In particular, we propose that because the Short-D3 measures three “dark and antisocial” personality traits, our results raise some prima facie worries about the moral justification of some conservative moral judgments
We are about to go the way of Sodom and Gomorrah
As I recall the death and destruction wrought in Sodom and Gomorrah came from a malicious third party, and here we're talking about the malicious local leader. In other words, this is what happens when democracy fails.
Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed because God was upset with how they were treating the poor.