Jeb wants to abolish food stamps

[Virginiá]

I'm sure most liberals would agree with me that they don't want to pay federal taxes and have the money sent to other states where they have no (even theoretical) say in how it is spent.

Yes. Pretty much. Quite frankly, I'm sick of this never-ending Republican mantra of block grants and tax breaks. Their solution to everything is to just throw a tax break at it, or give a fat wad of cash to a state and tell them to "do whatever". That's fine and dandy, but while a state could do something better, they can also do something far worse. I want to know my money is contributing towards something that works, and not given to the discretion of state lawmakers who might not even want a food-stamp program to exist in the first place.

[Virginiá]

Here is an even better solution:  Abolish the minimum wage, or set it back to $3.35 an hour.  Then let people work 2 or 3 jobs until they can have the experience and skills to live on 1 job.  Can't raise a family on $3.35 an hour?  Then wait to have a family.

Honestly, I can't tell if you are being sarcastic or not.

[Virginiá]

Serious!  Why should businesses be forced to pay a person more than they are worth?  
Herman Cain said basically the same thing about minimum wage (not the part about cutting it back).  It is a training wage, not a living wage.

Because there is more to this world & life than just businesses and their profits. There are families/people out there trying to survive and working as hard as anyone else. How do so many not see this? When did so many start thinking that everyone should be completely on their own and anyone needing some support is a moocher with no work ethic? Not everyone has it the same. We are where we are as a civilization because we worked together to get here, and yet so many say, "***k em', if they ain't makin it, they are lazy and on their own!".

Really, it's these types of views that give me a bad feeling in my stomach about the future. No matter what, for the time being at least, someone is always going to have to do those minimum wage jobs and paying them slave wages is going to make their lives terrible. Their place of employment might as well fill a backroom with cages for their workers if they are going to pay them $3.xx/hour, because they sure as hell are not going to be able to afford any place to live. Especially not if you also cut welfare.

As for waiting to have a family - Tell that to people who may have wanted an abortion but found it impossible to get one, or didn't believe in it. And don't say abstinence, because no matter how much people want to believe that is a solution, it is not, and never will be.