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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 1153186" data-attributes="member: 1246"><p>Nobody messes with the Democrats base and gets away with it!</p><p></p><p>Via far-left rag <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/174753/sword-drops-food-stamps" target="_blank">The Nation</a>:</p><p style="margin-left: 20px">It’s official: Congress will slash food stamp funding in the midst of a deep economic recession, when <a href="http://money.msn.com/now/post.aspx?post=e9caf453-75ca-4ad6-ae9d-9b991cd6702f" target="_blank">more people</a> rely on food stamps than ever before.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Monday night, the Senate passed a five-year farm bill that contained $4.1 billion in cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) over ten years. This ensures that the only debate now will be about how much to cut—and it’s likely to result in cuts much deeper than $4.1 billion.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">The House Agriculture Committee passed a farm bill last month that cut $20.5 billion from SNAP by removing “categorical eligibility” (more on that <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/174391/congress-ready-fight-over-deep-food-stamp-cuts" target="_blank">here</a>), which would take food stamps away from 2 million Americans and hundreds of thousands of children. [...]</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>Aside from being, well, cruel,</strong> the food stamp cuts in the Senate bill are also damaging to the economy. The Center for American Progress, in a <a href="http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/poverty/report/2012/03/19/11314/the-economic-consequences-of-cutting-the-supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program/" target="_blank">study</a> released in March, found that for every $1 billion cut from SNAP, 13,718 jobs are lost</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 1153186, member: 1246"] Nobody messes with the Democrats base and gets away with it! Via far-left rag [URL="http://www.thenation.com/blog/174753/sword-drops-food-stamps"]The Nation[/URL]: [INDENT]It’s official: Congress will slash food stamp funding in the midst of a deep economic recession, when [URL="http://money.msn.com/now/post.aspx?post=e9caf453-75ca-4ad6-ae9d-9b991cd6702f"]more people[/URL] rely on food stamps than ever before. Monday night, the Senate passed a five-year farm bill that contained $4.1 billion in cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) over ten years. This ensures that the only debate now will be about how much to cut—and it’s likely to result in cuts much deeper than $4.1 billion. The House Agriculture Committee passed a farm bill last month that cut $20.5 billion from SNAP by removing “categorical eligibility” (more on that [URL="http://www.thenation.com/blog/174391/congress-ready-fight-over-deep-food-stamp-cuts"]here[/URL]), which would take food stamps away from 2 million Americans and hundreds of thousands of children. [...] [B]Aside from being, well, cruel,[/B] the food stamp cuts in the Senate bill are also damaging to the economy. The Center for American Progress, in a [URL="http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/poverty/report/2012/03/19/11314/the-economic-consequences-of-cutting-the-supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program/"]study[/URL] released in March, found that for every $1 billion cut from SNAP, 13,718 jobs are lost [/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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