Newt Gingrich 'Irritated' By Outrage Over His Comments On Food Stamps

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/08/republican-debate-newt-gingrich-food-stamps_n_1192875.html

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tyger

371 Fans

3 minutes ago(10:26 AM)

He said it and knows well that too many Whites believe the myth. Whites, Blacks and Hispanics all suffer in this current economic climate. Someone from all the races have problems financiall­y. There are Blacks and Hispanics who do not have to receive foodstamps or social services checks. There are Whites who do need social service and foodstamp help. Gingrich statement that Pres Obama has put more people on foodstamps is a distortion­. Rather than allow people who can not find jobs starve the foodstamp and unemployme­n programs had to be expanded. So based on Gingrich statement Obama should allow people to starve and hope that they can find a job.

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daveat1910

84 Fans

15 minutes ago(10:15 AM)

I wonder if Newt ever goes to a Wall Street convention and speaks about greed- not that he would ever think they could be greedy of course. Who does he think he's kidding. Should we believe our lying ears or his explainati­on?

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nowpolitics

162 Fans

17 minutes ago(10:13 AM)

So in Gingrich's mind, the 43% unemployed African American teenagers are unemployed because they will rather choose to be on welfare than earn a paycheck?

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anotherwomanfromva

Trickle down didn't work; It's time for trickle up

1440 Fans

21 minutes ago(10:08 AM)

The NAACP doesn't need Gingrich to talk to them about food stamps versus paychecks. All people wouldn't prefer a decent paycheck instead of food stamps. Why doesn't Gingrich talk about the programs that he would implement so more Americans would have jobs? If he is so irritated by people calling him out on his r/acist talk then he should stop making statements like that. And when will these old guys realize that everything they say is on record for people to review. They can't just say they didn't say something when there is a recording of them saying it.

 

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Changeling

203 Fans

48 minutes ago( 9:50 AM)

"Clearly, as somebody who has served with Colin Powell, somebody who has served with Condi Rice, I have a fairly good sense that African-Am­ericans have made many contributi­ons to America."

Translatio­n:

I can't possibly be racist as I have two black acquaintan­ces.

 

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vallesula

370 Fans

49 minutes ago( 9:48 AM)

Pay attention people for here are the facts on Food-Stamp­s Recipients :

Among those receiving food-stamp­s, here IS the break-down­, 28% of RECIPIENTS ( NOT to be confused with the ENTIRE black popullatio­n) are black and the remaining 72 % are....
( YOU GOT IT !!!! ).

We are a people unwilling to research anything,a­nd would rather settle for believing something - if we hear it said often enough, we think it's true.

The media doesn't help much cuz, everytime they talk about welfare or food-stamp­s, they WILL show the faces of America's black children, but if YOU have a brain LARGER than the size of a pea, pause long enough ans ask yourselves­, what is the nation's popullatio­n make up and how does it break-down ???

HINT" Blacks and Latinos are called MINORITIES for a reason - they ARE fewer in numbers so what makes you think they're the GREATER recipients to freebies??­.

Only place where this holds true is in America's prisons, for the Prison Industry IS big business in America - at the EXPENSE of blacks and Latinos.

Believe me when I tell you, schools in their districts are BAD by design and for a reason....

 

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Aimleft

228 Fans

27 minutes ago(10:12 AM)

What a prepostero­us, wrongheade­d rant. I would like for you to explain how the democrats "have created a government class." Is it not the wealthy and the corporatio­ns - mostly supportive of and supported by the GOP - that have created and worked diligently to maintain, such a class, by overpaying the bigwigs, underpayin­g the workers, outsourcin­g jobs, and creating tax breaks and incentives that work to further enrich the rich while keeping not just the poor, but the middle class down? I just shudder when I read such igorance as what's in your comment. I mean, it makes me almost physically ill

 

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Seriouslydeb

8 Fans

57 minutes ago( 9:43 AM)

They don't really care about jobs. They care about the corporatio­ns. If they truly cared about jobs, they would not have voted down the outsourcin­g bill that took away the outsourcin­g tax-incent­ive loopholes. Let's be real. There are people on foodstamps that do get paychecks, but the minimum wages are just not enough. If you want the working poor to get off foodstamps­, minimum wages need to go up. That is something the Right will never agree to. Wages went down, not up. CEOs get millions in bonuses by decreasing the payroll. It's usually the first to go with budgets. Hiring freezes, layoffs, outsourcin­g -- walah! Huge bonus for one, huge problems for thousands!

America needs to value workers again.

 

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madame48

NO..it's a gop Cookbook !Tempus edax,homo edacior

651 Fans

39 minutes ago(10:01 AM)

Newtie and Friends kept the minimum wage at $5.25 hr from 1994 until the Dems vated to boost it in 2007(again­st gop fight) Even now, it it LOWER in real dollars than the 1960s...wi­th costs so much higher. I was explaining to a student, this is why there is no way to entirely work one's way thru college like I did. Stomping on the lower income workers

 

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navyvet55

Flag Waving, Patriotic Liberal

466 Fans

1 hour ago( 9:37 AM)

Dividing America, playing the race card, lying about who put all those people on food stamps...i­t was Bush and Republican policies..­..forcing a single mom working as a school janitor out of a job and putting her kids to work....ar­resting members of the judiciary if they do not agree with Newt....im­plying that the President or the Democratic Party does not want to blacks or anyone else to have jobs...whe­n the Republican­s have blocked any effort to increase jobs.....t­his is who the right supports? Racism and ignorance.­..your name is Newt.

 

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jbiot

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1 hour ago( 9:35 AM)

Has the Newtron bomb lost his mind? Food stamps have been around since the Food Stamp Act of 1964. There have been subsequent bills, and funding has ebbed and flowed, but basically it's been venerable part of the fabric of American life. Participat­ion in the current program has only to do with need. It should be noted that (under Obama) since the post recession low of February 2010 2.6 million jobs have been created, beating Reagan's 2.4 million at a similar point in Reagan's administra­tion (when unemployme­nt was 9.2%). For the record (per the DOA):

49% of all participan­ts are children;
15% of all participan­ts are elderly;
20% of all participan­ts are non-elderl­y disabled people.

If the size of SNAP's participat­ion has grown you can thank the BUSH recession for that. So 84% of those on food stamps cannot work and cannot therefore collect a paycheck. Why then is Newt wanting to talk to the NAACP about paychecks vs. food stamps. There are only two possibilit­ies. Either he is so incredibly stupid that he does not know the real demographi­cs of SNAP. Or, he is giving voice to that unique brand of dog whistle racism that runs like a river through Republican politics. And when Newt calls Obama the food stamp president, that's just more of the same old same: dog whistle wink wink pandering to the worst in us. For of the 16% in SNAP who are not children, disabled or elderly, about 4% are black.

 

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Dieter Zerressen

Don't attack the messenger - give me a fact.

251 Fans

1 hour ago( 9:34 AM)

This is the same tactic Reagan used with his "welfare queen" remarks. Its a diversion to get us to look away while the 1% steal the rest of the money in the country. Welfare and entitlemen­ts are problems but they are on the scale of, maybe, billions of dollars while the 1% and Wall Street are stealing trillions of dollars.

 

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nanimal

236 Fans

1 hour ago( 9:33 AM)

Newt's always irritated plus what he said is racist and untrue. The fact is there are more whites on food stamps than African Americans and he fails to point to one specific policy of obama's that would make him a "food stamp' President. It's always good to have a Presidenti­al candidate get irritated when people question his bogus statements­...he's applying for a job to work for the American people and we have a right to question anything he says.

 

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TTQ64

28 Fans

51 minutes ago( 9:54 AM)

Why reference the NAACP at all? What do they have to do with foodstamps­?