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GOP Rep Steve King: Use Food Stamp, Planned Parenthood Funding to Build Border Wall
Breitbart ^ | 12 Jul 2017 | Jeff Poor

Posted on 07/12/2017 9:50:06 AM PDT by Cheerio

Wednesday on CNN’s “New Day,” Rep. Steve King (R-IA) was asked by show co-host Alisyn Camerota if he was “comfortable” holding up funding for the federal government if it did not include money for the border wall.

King said that he was, but suggested taking it a step further by adding money earmarked for food stamps and Planned Parenthood to fund the wall.

Partial transcript as follows:

CAMEROTA: And it’s $1.6 billion. I mean, that’s what might be holding up, you know, the funding for the government. But are you comfortable, Congressman, with providing $1.6 billion of taxpayer money, not from Mexico, to build that wall?

KING: Absolutely yes, and more, and I’d throw another $5 billion on the pile and I would find a half of a billion dollars of that right out of Planned Parenthood’s budget. And the rest of it could come out of food stamps and the entitlements that are being spread out for people that haven’t worked in three generations.

We’ve got to put America back to work. This administration will do it. And we’ve got to let — we’ve got to free them up so that they can and support the right agenda for this country.

CAMEROTA: You want to take food from people who are the people who are on the lowest rung in terms of the nation’s safety net, and their children — in terms of food stamps, you’re happy to take — you’re willing to take money from them to build the $1.6 — or to give the $1.6 billion for the border wall?

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: 115th; border; buildthewall; federalfunding; king; trump
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CAMEROTA: You want to take food from people who are the people who are on the lowest rung in terms of the nation’s safety net, and their children — in terms of food stamps, you’re happy to take — you’re willing to take money from them to build the $1.6 — or to give the $1.6 billion for the border wall?

That's were we are today in the culture of 2017

The following quotation has been attributed to Tytler, although it has also been occasionally attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville:

A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.
1 posted on 07/12/2017 9:50:07 AM PDT by Cheerio
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To: Cheerio
👹😹🤑. Well that should put a bow on the insanity. 🙉🙈🙊🎁
2 posted on 07/12/2017 9:55:10 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: Cheerio

That’s a great idea. I’ve been saying ever since Trump first suggested his wall that it would be expensive and we need to find the money elsewhere in the budget to avoid going deeper in debt. Ditto the infrastructure plan.

Fortunately, there are plenty of places in the budget where we can go to get it.

But then, i’m somewhat of a radical. I have 9 Federal departments I’d like to close.


3 posted on 07/12/2017 9:55:43 AM PDT by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: TBP

You mean people will starve?


4 posted on 07/12/2017 9:57:12 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Cheerio

Steve King represents rural Iowa. He knows the ‘Farm Bill’ and that it is mostly food stamps. And he knows the details of where and on what that food stamp money is spent. Junk food from convenience stores is not the intent of ‘helping the poor’. King knows it, and Camerota does too. She just lies to score political points with her ignorant audience.


5 posted on 07/12/2017 9:58:04 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Cheerio

Why not use useless expenditures like foreign aid and UN contributions as well?


6 posted on 07/12/2017 10:00:04 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: Cheerio

Could not stand her at FOX, as she is an elitist , snobby, egotistical , brain dead fool.


7 posted on 07/12/2017 10:06:25 AM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: mrmeyer

[ Why not use useless expenditures like foreign aid and UN contributions as well? ]

Mexico OWES our hospitals several years worth of foreign aid...


8 posted on 07/12/2017 10:06:42 AM PDT by GraceG ("It's better to have all the Right Enemies, than it is to have all the Wrong Friends.")
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To: TBP

so you want people to lose jobs, healthcare, starve, and then die off!!!

SARC.

That is the sort of crap the left always pushes , and what they learn from their collages, and public education.


9 posted on 07/12/2017 10:07:57 AM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: mrmeyer

cut off the arts programs too.


10 posted on 07/12/2017 10:08:29 AM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: Cheerio

Stop fed money from going to Sanctuary Cities and use that to build the wall.

Also, stop any fed $’s to illegals and use that money to build the wall.


11 posted on 07/12/2017 10:09:45 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (I Trump is not a Republican suffering from post traumatic press syndrome...!!!)
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This is a joke. Our government wastes billions every year.


12 posted on 07/12/2017 10:09:46 AM PDT by TakebackGOP
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To: Cheerio
A great idea (among many others), but ultimately....talk is cheap...very cheap.

That is all this Republican controlled congress seems capable of doing, is talking a good game.

13 posted on 07/12/2017 10:12:06 AM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: mrmeyer
Why not use useless expenditures like foreign aid and UN contributions as well?

I've been saying that for many, many years. Stop all foreign aid unless it proves a direct benefit of value to the U.S. equal to or greater than the expenditure.

And U.S out of U.N.; U.N. out of U.S., NOW!

14 posted on 07/12/2017 10:14:30 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Cheerio

Have soe balls Rep. King and come right out and say it Like I have for many years.

I HATE THE POOR !!!


15 posted on 07/12/2017 10:19:07 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: TBP

It costs us 538 billion annually to support illegals. 20 billion to build the wall.


16 posted on 07/12/2017 10:20:00 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: Cheerio

George W. Bush dumped a cool fifteen billion dollars (and more) to somewhere in Africa to fight AIDS and no one bats an eye, but building a wall to protect Americans...


17 posted on 07/12/2017 10:31:29 AM PDT by odawg
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To: Cobra64

$538 billion? Wow! Do you have a source for that?


18 posted on 07/12/2017 10:33:45 AM PDT by Fredpooll
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To: rxsid
That is all this Republican controlled congress seems capable of doing, is talking a good game.

They're worried their trough will be emptied, as well.

19 posted on 07/12/2017 10:34:41 AM PDT by Fido969 (IN!)
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To: rxsid
That is all this Republican controlled congress seems capable of doing, is talking a good game.

They're worried their trough will be emptied, as well.

20 posted on 07/12/2017 10:34:45 AM PDT by Fido969 (IN!)
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