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February 24, 2015 11:00 pm - NewsBehavingBadly.com

[su_thin_right_skyscraper_ad]They’d better not buy any beer, Or party favors. Or candy. Or ANYTHING with their money, Anomaly writes.

Freshman Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) reportedly said at a town hall in his district last week that constituents should monitor purchases made with debit cards from Food Share, which is Wisconsin’s name for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the Huffington Post reports…

“I would argue some people are arranging their life to be on Food Share,” Grothman said.

And I would argue that members of Congress aren’t doing their jobs.

Let’s all spy on poor people who receive benefits so that we can make them feel intimidated, humiliated and threatened, because freedom.

Grothman is known for controversial statements, such as, “You could argue that money is more important for men.”

Or when he called Kwanzaa,”the supposed African-American holiday celebration.”

Nice man.

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D.B. Hirsch
D.B. Hirsch is a political activist, news junkie, and retired ad copy writer and spin doctor. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

20 responses to GOP Lawmaker Asks Constituents To Spy On Food Stamp Users

  1. tracey marie February 24th, 2015 at 11:06 pm

    Wow, I do not understand how they can feel such contempt for people, being poor does not give anyone the right to denigrate and marginalize someone

  2. tracey marie February 24th, 2015 at 11:12 pm

    Unmarried with no children writing bills regulating/Denigrating women and children.

    • whatthe46 February 24th, 2015 at 11:13 pm

      yet, “pro-life.” don’t think so.

  3. Ronald L February 25th, 2015 at 12:08 am

    I wish these GOP lawmakers would show the same zeal against contractors, corporations, and billionaires who take federal money in uneeded tax cuts, subsides and direct payments.

    • Mike February 25th, 2015 at 12:14 am

      You want to take money from the job creators…?? Next you’ll want to raise their taxes…obvious pinko commie marxist.

      • whatthe46 February 25th, 2015 at 12:35 am

        lol

  4. Mike February 25th, 2015 at 12:12 am

    Huh??? I thought SNAP benefits could only be used for stuff it covers and you had to pay for things like detergent or brillo pads. Doesn’t it only cover products you can eat???

    • whatthe46 February 25th, 2015 at 12:35 am

      yep. you’re right. the only food it won’t cover is hot food. (prepared)

    • rg9rts February 25th, 2015 at 2:10 am

      Nothing taxable can be bought…but of course this idiot researched the issue before his call to arms was issued

  5. Foundryman February 25th, 2015 at 12:17 am

    Neighbors spying on neighbors…If it’s all the same to these right wing nutjobs, emulating communist East Germany isn’t something we should attempt…What would be next, build a a wall to keep unwanteds out?…Wait…what?

    • rg9rts February 25th, 2015 at 2:09 am

      Nazis liked you to do that…

  6. rg9rts February 25th, 2015 at 2:08 am

    Idiot…you can’t buy anything taxable…toothpaste, toilet paper, shampoo…get the idea ???

  7. bpollen February 25th, 2015 at 6:09 am

    Well, the lesson here is to not shop in Wisconsin Grocery Stores… Long lines aren’t bad enough, now you gotta deal with rancorous confrontations in those same lines.

  8. Warman1138 February 25th, 2015 at 7:16 am

    Before you know it, he’ll be blaming gypsies, tramps and thieves.

  9. Warman1138 February 25th, 2015 at 7:29 am

    Another freaking wannabe Nazi, every other day or two another GOP political type tries to be a wannabe Nazi. What’s with that, you would think that after all this time they would run out of morons making noise but nooooooo, they got plenty.

  10. AmusedAmused February 25th, 2015 at 8:20 am

    I remember a lecture on bankruptcy in law school, when students began pummeling the professor with questions, incredulous that the law allows — hell, favors — executives who ran the company into the ground in the first place getting guaranteed seven-figure compensation while the company struggles with insolvency, at the expense of rank-and-file pensions and ordinary creditors. The professor embarked on a long expose on how Chapter 11 bankruptcy is basically a legalized raid on a company (that’s why the filings go up when the economy is good, contrary to what you would expect). One thing in particular stuck with me. He mentioned that not only are the meetings between company executives and the creditors’ committee catered, but they are the BEST-catered meetings in the industry. “Help someone who’s loaded take over another company, and you get the usual brie and grapes. Prepare papers saying the company can’t pay its workers, you get bagels with caviar. And if you say something about it, you get the standard whaaaa, you are a communist, catering meetings creates jobs, etc.”

    So here is the better alternative: let’s keep tabs on what the biggest recipients of taxpayer largesse are eating: the corporate bankrupts and the executives of companies that we’ve had to bail out. Because if they are eating anything better than gruel on our dime, I think some criminal prosecutions are in order.

  11. MarcoZandrini February 25th, 2015 at 9:46 am

    But y

  12. arc99 February 25th, 2015 at 11:46 am

    But if a doctor asks a patient if there are firearms in their home, these same people throw a fit. Feeding children = bad. Giving children guns = good.

    Upside down morality at its finest.

    • AmusedAmused February 25th, 2015 at 12:13 pm

      When Jesus was in the desert, would he have renounced his Father, had Satan offered him an assault rifle instead of bread? I wish gun-gun-happy evangelicals would weigh in on this.

  13. oldfart February 25th, 2015 at 1:02 pm

    ah, a freshman flexing his stupidity… another Snot Walker wannabe.