Recent comments in /f/Pennsylvania

sg92i t1_j9vui5p wrote

> and they do it anonymously

They just as commonly don't do it anonymously. This is a common trope from low class racists who have worked as cashiers & are pissed off at the world for being "better" than them. Facebook is full of people who love to come out of the woodwork whenever EBT is mentioned to tell about some time they worked in a grocery store or gas station and saw people "abusing it." Because obviously only low class whites deserve EBT or something like that.

Someone should turn it around and call them colonizers for speaking English in Pennsylvania instead of German (on a county by county level German was more common than English until WW1 throughout the state & some of those families were here before William Penn was).

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Dredly t1_j9vtexs wrote

Demand... what exactly? PA voters put these people in charge who voted on all of this... the lack of a severance tax, the gas tax, the electricity de-regulation, the school taxes and allocation... this is what 4 decades of republican control looks like.

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Republicans have been in control of PA Congress (with very minor blips) since the 70's, and nearly every thing we strongly dislike was done by them to benefit corporations over people

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sg92i t1_j9vsyn4 wrote

> yet Democrats run the whole state

That's ridiculous. The GOP has had a deathgrip on most of Pennsylvania for ages. Look at this chart under "historical party control."

https://ballotpedia.org/Party_control_of_Pennsylvania_state_government

That's a lot of red.

The state senate has been republican forever. The state house is usually republican and just recently turned blue (for the first time in over a decade), by a tiny majority that doesn't mean anything if just a handful of those democrats are right-leaning (which you can almost count on).

Nonetheless: Medicaid and EBT is state/county managed but the feds set most of the rules & funding.

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kaylasenjose t1_j9vspql wrote

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tinymonesters t1_j9vs1wp wrote

The system works well you just have to know how it works. She could get MAWD from the assistance office if she requires health sustaining medicine. It has a premium adjusted at 5% gross income. It's usually cheaper than employees insurance.

Edit: Downvote this all you want. It's a fact. Eligibility requirements were expanded recently and it's insanely easy to qualify for "disabilty" related MA. Source: IMCW for DHS CWOPA.

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kaylasenjose t1_j9vqen9 wrote

It just smelled like a really strong mixture of random chemicals.. I’ve never smelled anything like it before, ever so I can’t really say I can say what it smells like

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