The Washington Post shines a bright light on the Wisconsinites whom Scott Walker and his party are OK to starve.
And his party's legislative leaders who endorse these policies from time to time to time add more money to their members' taxpayer-provided meal allowance/per diem payments, sometimes collected tax free, as reported earlier this year.
Wisconsin — with its work requirement set to expand next year and a focus on employment and training — is a role model for the Trump administration’s vision of food aid for poor Americans who could go hungry, ratcheting up what many of them are expected to do to get government help.Walker began cutting off food aid from poor people nearly eight years ago:
The Walker budget narrative explains without a whiff of paternalism how [he] wants to make Wisconsin's poor in the W-2 program grasp the complicated but important relationship between motivation, personal responsibility, job success - - and fasting....
It's right there in the budget, on page 65, in the "Health and Human Services" section:
"To further encourage W-2 recipients to recognize that the goal of W-2 is for participants to secure unsubsidized employment, reduce the monthly benefit check by $20."
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| Hey, you little brat! You think you get that every month? |
Right: Walker knows that by taking away that $20 bucks worth of luxuries every month, like that cow's milk by the gallon, and canned tuna fish imported from the ocean and macaroni with cheese, he'll light a fire under those welfare queens... [and send] that same message of frugality and accountability to the kids these parents so irresponsibly addicted to food in childhood:
Just because there's peanut butter in the house, little mister, doesn't mean you get sliced bread so you can make one of your fancy sandwiches.Walker has done all this while enjoying a state-provided mansion with two kitchens.
And his party's legislative leaders who endorse these policies from time to time to time add more money to their members' taxpayer-provided meal allowance/per diem payments, sometimes collected tax free, as reported earlier this year.
Legislators often collect daily travel allowances, also known as per diems, as money for job-related meals and lodging. They are allowed to pocket leftover cash, but some who live near Madison must pay income taxes on the money.
The money is in addition to a legislator's $50,950 annual salary....Most Assembly legislators could claim up to $157 per overnight visit to Madison last year and up to $78.50 per single-day visit. Senators could claim up to $115 per day regardless of lodging needs.