Posted on 01/29/2018 11:43:32 AM PST by bgill
An online petition to include pet food in SNAP benefits is getting a lot of traction. The petition on Care2 has more than 88,500 supports as of Monday morning. According to the website, the petition was created by Edward B. Johnston Jr., who wrote that hes been on SNAP benefits for a few months and hasnt been able to feed his dog due to government regulations.
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Where do you stand on illegal pets?
So, I can’t afford to have pets, but Welfare recipients should be able to with our money?
F that.
what do you expect from a nation that pays for little babies to be sucked out of wombs and thrown into the sink....
we can't stop the insanity but we can minimize the taxes we pay to the Satanist govt.
“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents....”
—James Madison
“The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. This has been repeatedly and quite lately demonstrated. Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the Government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character, while it prevents the indulgence among our people of that kindly sentiment and conduct which strengthens the bonds of a common brotherhood.”
Grover Cleveland, February 1887
“I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity.”
—Franklin Pierce, 1854
Ol Uncle Ted said it best way back in the day...
“A topless grandmother in a sofa surrounded by dog feces? If you’re poor, you can’t have a dog! You start by eating the (expletive) pets! Am I out of my mind?”
As long as there’s a work requirement.
That’ll keep out all the cats and most of the dogs...
Trying to get the Senior Citizens on board.
Why doesn’t he let the dog chew on the bones from the steaks he gets with his food stamps?
You can spend them at casinos though.
What is next, having their pets on medical aid as well.
A mandatory plan like ObamaCare was.
Why not? Let’s encourage and pay for more irresponsible behavior.
Viral is right .. and the idiocy metastasizing.
Wait till Pet Medicaid comes out.
So if there is a crazy cat lady on welfare and she has 100 cats.. How much money a month do they think she should get?
I can also see people pretending to have pets to get extra money a month. The amount of fraud that would happen, if someone even agreed to this, would be enormous.
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