Trump Gets CLAP From Maduro Regime

CLAP packages. Via Venezuelanalysis.

My UK tweep Paul Canning, an expert observer of, among other things, Venezuela, noticed something familiar in the Trump budget proposal to turn half of the SNAP program into church basement–style distribution of beans and rice, to stop the poor from indulging in their well-known habit of blowing all their food stamps on crab legs and pomegranate juice:

Shocking anti-hunger advocates, the Trump admin is proposing to replace half of food stamp money with a box of government-selected food they’d deliver monthly. They’d call it a “Harvest Box” even though it wouldn’t include anything fresh. https://t.co/jjc9Edgp0S

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) February 13, 2018

Poo Apron. https://t.co/GYCCW9smAF

— Roy Edroso (@edroso) February 13, 2018

After decades, even centuries of claiming there was no need for government welfare programs because churches could take care of it, now they're saying government needs to run its own church food pantries. https://t.co/hbpSBTQbFV

— Yas Over Elbow (@Yastreblyansky) February 13, 2018

This is what the Maduro regime does, it supplies (or rather often doesn't) a food box called CLAP (Comité Local de Abastecimiento y Producción). It's a scam that profits regime insiders https://t.co/G53t7cjwcR Maybe American opponents of this proposal could use that? https://t.co/QnWjmffVe0

— Paul Canning (@pauloCanning) February 13, 2018

I like my headline, but Republicans might prefer "Trump Picks Up On Bolivarian Socialism".