Posted on 07/22/2008 8:54:35 PM PDT by library user
Brought to you by none other than Baghdad Jim McDermott (D-WTF?). I must’ve done something truly horrible in a former lifetime to be sentenced to live in this guy’s district. The proposed legislation is to create a new program along the lines of the federal food stamp program. The press release and proposed bill is here.
Some highlights:
“Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA), chairman of the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support, introduced legislation today to provide financial assistance to vulnerable Americans struggling to survive under crushing gasoline prices.”Found via Dori Monson.“The Emergency Gasoline Assistance Act (H.R. 6561) would create a program to provide $5 billion to states as a one-time grant with the money designated to provide assistance to families of modest means to purchase gasoline. This program could provide every family that is currently living below the federal poverty threshold with $500 in assistance. State governors would have the flexibility to use the money to create programs that target the specific needs of their communities.”
Criminy - it’s getting hard enough to pay our taxes, heat the house, pay the mortgage and feed the kids. We’ll have to bail out Fannie and Freddie and now gas stamps????
This is insane. Don’t need this crap and the associated overhead - just kill the federal taxes on gasoline
Cheers!
It’s not enough welfare pays for taxi cabs for the impoverished to go play bingo, now they will get $500 worth of free gas stamps to take that beamer they have in their garage.
what about thier “carbon footprint? shouldn’t they be encouraged to take a bus? How about rik-shaw stamps?
If you do that us rich middle class folks and even more evil uber-rich won’t have to pay federal gas taxes either.
Don’t you remember that taxes are punitive? Can’t stop punishing the rich and those in the middle.
Oh man....maybe I should just divorce hubby and go on the public roll....
Seriously, this is ridiculous! I will get fired up about this one and lose my reluctance of phoning consistently and constantly for months on end.
I think it’s time for that civil war that the DemocRATS have been so desperately craving.
Does this mean that the gas stations are going to be SUPER busy at the first of every month, while I stand in a long line behind a bunch of poorly dressed fat asses who are filling their tanks with high octane while I’m buying a half tank of regular unleaded?
“Who is going to pay for this program”?
Well, with liberals, hubby is replaced with government, right? Either a God-blessed partnership with a spouse for life, or dependent on the faceless, DMV-style government for life.
Sorry, don’t mean to drag ya down.... smile! :)
(And give your husband a kiss!)
Why, the taxpayer, of course.
YAY! MORE CRACK STAMPS. Twice as much crack for every parasite in America. Forget twice - these babies will go for more than 50 cents on the dollar.
More people dependent on bigger government for more things, plus bonus acclimation to ration card-like concepts. And a nice fat guaranteed income handout from the hardworking taxpayer to the gas companies.
“poorly dressed”
Not in Milwaukee. They are the ones with designer clothes, hair and nails done.
Buying votes with other people money. Typical Rat.
Why doesn’t Jihad Jim just go to Caracas and fellate Hugo for free oil? It’s good enough for New Hampshire...
who are you kidding with the poorly dressed. They have better cloths and better cars than you will ever dream.
And before the PC police comes gets me...about 15 years ago i had a friend i had to take down to one of the worst parts of houston to get their food stamps. I had a 2 tone car because i coudn’t afford to get the door painted after someone hit and ran on the car. Long story short the other people there all had brand new caddy and lexus and enough gold to fund the country. That was the day i stopped being a liberal kumbya kinda person. It is very eye opening and will make you so mad your head will explode.
So now lets give gas to people who don’t work. Where can i sign up for the revolution.
What about the obesity crisis/epidemic? Why is this man an enabler?
Heh... Pass those Gas Stamps and the rest of you can (well you know)... Politics walks and Money talks.
They evil rich...eeish that’s a no brainer
Oh, for Pete’s sake!
This will be the Dem’s $#^^ out!
Just think of the booze and drugs they’ll be able to trade these “gas stamps” for. Time for the “vulnerable” to get ready to paaaaaaaaar-TAY!
Just vote for Obambi-—or refuse to vote for McCain-—and this is the type of crappola that will become a permanent feature of LBJ’s never-ending “war on poverty.”
“Shouldn’t they be encouraged to take a bus?,” you ask.
Hells bells, maybe they should be FORCED to take the bus.
I think we should start a thread on which every Freeper posts photos of completely empty “mass transportation” roaring through their city or town-—”mass” transportation that was forced upon the nation by the enviroweenies and the Welfare Propagandists for, among other reasons, providing transportation for the poor.
If the Rats want to give gas stamps to the “poor,” then the Rats should, first, withdraw all federal funding for “mass” transportation (those empty, empty buses) and divert it to private subsidized transportation.
I read a story last week about how the Dutch gave their “poor” vouchers for vacations as well.
The article was about several families who came home early, complaining that the vacation spot wasn’t nice enough.
I was going to post the article, but got called away.
I had no concept of the impact of welfare payments on business until I patronized a skating rink in Chula Vista, CA. I had been there many times before and was pretty familiar with the "regulars". I arrived on the first Friday night of the month and noticed lots of armed security on site. I then purchased by ticket and entered. It was wall to wall black people. Absolutely no room for any sane person to skate. I walked out and got a "rain check" for another night. That's when one of the armed security people appraised me of why they were present. It was "Mom's night". The night when welfare moms get their federal check and dump the kids at the rink. Argghh! Lesson learned. On most "normal" nights, the regulars included about 30 black young adults and teens. All very amiable and skilled skaters.
I never was a liberal, but had a similar experience that opened my eyes to the pernicious effects of all kinds of gratuitous charity. (By that I mean: charity that is not given to a person whom one knows for a purpose one has knowledge of.)
Anyway. One of many such experiences: we participated in a program called Angel Tree in which people donate a gift to children whose parent(s) are in prison. Awwww. Well, when the gifts were delivered to these children, many only complained (”I wanted a basketball” or “I didn’t want a basketball”). It was quite stunning.
Every Dem proposal over the past few years has been to get people OUT of their cars. Now they want to provide welfare gasoline to get them back INTO their cars. Why don’t leftist heads explode with all the DOUBLETHINK??? Are they really so completely ignorant of logic and consistency?
I guess it was my curse to be educated as an engineer.
WTF?!?
Yes, it does.
Coming soon: Lead taps.
What are they going to do? Give stamps to the farmers, truck drivers, policemen and others who use fuel for a living? When the jackasses drive the price of fuel to $10/gallon how far is $500 going to go?
The first thing they should do take the right of congressmen to be reimbursed for gasoline purchases.
Why not Bus Stamps?
When the jackasses drive the price of fuel to $10/gallon how far is $500 going to go?
The question is....”How far are we going to go at $10 / gallon?”
Where I live, they already have bus stamps! And the buses still run mostly empty.
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