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KamaAina

(78,249 posts) Tue Mar 12, 2013, 03:34 PM Mar 2013

Repukes taking food out of people's mouths. Literally.

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Wednesday the Senate Budget Committee is set to consider proposals that would slash billions from our country’s nutrition programs—reducing funding that provides SNAP (food stamps) to over 47 million Americans, and completely eliminating the nutrition education program SNAP-Ed. As budget conversations continue over the next few days, a proposal on the table from Senator Roberts, to slash $36 billion, is expected to be the first of many misdirected attempts to balance the budget by literally taking healthy foods off of people's plates. The proposed cuts could go even higher, if we don't stand up for nutrition programs today.

On the heels of last week’s devastating sequester cuts, we can’t afford to sever one of the most important safety nets for our poorest families. Cutting nutrition programs won’t reduce poverty, stop children from going hungry or provide resources that improve diets.

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Repukes taking food out of people's mouths. Literally. (Original Post) KamaAina Mar 2013 OP

SNAP is too important to Big Ag; it won't stay on the block Recursion Mar 2013 #1

This is coming from Pat Roberts (R-Wheat) KamaAina Mar 2013 #4

Ah, but Cochrane (R, Soy) is ranking on both Ag and Appropriations Recursion Mar 2013 #5

I thought it was Wallace, FDR's Dept. of Agriculture, who set up the Food Stamp Program. (?) Hestia Mar 2013 #7

Well it's WIC I'm thinking of more Recursion Mar 2013 #15

Wow! Literally?!! Who was it? riverbenddem Mar 2013 #2

Snarf! KamaAina Mar 2013 #3

That's how you can always spot a rethuglican. lpbk2713 Mar 2013 #6

This is so sad. SamReynolds Mar 2013 #8

Ambien. KamaAina Mar 2013 #10

only the rich donate to their political agendas. spanone Mar 2013 #9

I'm beginning to wonder.... ReRe Mar 2013 #11

Only the poor shall suffer! obxhead Mar 2013 #12

Even Marie Antoinette would Smilo Mar 2013 #13

There are a vast number of hard working people who HATE their jobs... Spitfire of ATJ Mar 2013 #14

Recursion

(56,582 posts)

1. SNAP is too important to Big Ag; it won't stay on the block

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Tue Mar 12, 2013, 03:40 PM

Mar 2013

The smartest thing LBJ did was make sure Ag had an investment in the safety net like that.

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)

4. This is coming from Pat Roberts (R-Wheat)

Reply to Recursion (Reply #1)

Tue Mar 12, 2013, 04:18 PM

Mar 2013

Don't know what to make of that.

Recursion

(56,582 posts)

5. Ah, but Cochrane (R, Soy) is ranking on both Ag and Appropriations

Reply to KamaAina (Reply #4)

Tue Mar 12, 2013, 04:21 PM

Mar 2013

For a Republican, I always kind of liked Thad.

Hestia

(3,818 posts)

7. I thought it was Wallace, FDR's Dept. of Agriculture, who set up the Food Stamp Program. (?)

Reply to Recursion (Reply #1)

Tue Mar 12, 2013, 05:01 PM

Mar 2013

No?

Recursion

(56,582 posts)

15. Well it's WIC I'm thinking of more

Reply to Hestia (Reply #7)

Tue Mar 12, 2013, 08:38 PM

Mar 2013

Yeah, I think the ancestor to SNAP was Wallace's baby

riverbenddem

(13 posts)

2. Wow! Literally?!! Who was it?

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Tue Mar 12, 2013, 03:50 PM

Mar 2013

My money's on Chris Christie...

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)

3. Snarf!

Reply to riverbenddem (Reply #2)

Tue Mar 12, 2013, 04:18 PM

Mar 2013

lpbk2713

(42,766 posts)

6. That's how you can always spot a rethuglican.

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Tue Mar 12, 2013, 04:30 PM

Mar 2013

He wants his piece of the pie and yours too.

SamReynolds

(170 posts)

8. This is so sad.

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Tue Mar 12, 2013, 05:26 PM

Mar 2013

The people that need the most help don't have enough money to lobby their representatives, while the people with all the lobbying money in the world only want more.

How do they convince themselves they aren't monsters? How do they sleep at night?

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)

10. Ambien.

Reply to SamReynolds (Reply #8)

Tue Mar 12, 2013, 05:30 PM

Mar 2013

Welcome to DU!

spanone

(135,861 posts)

9. only the rich donate to their political agendas.

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Tue Mar 12, 2013, 05:27 PM

Mar 2013

ReRe

(10,597 posts)

11. I'm beginning to wonder....

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Tue Mar 12, 2013, 05:41 PM

Mar 2013

K&R

...what this country is going to look like next year at this time. Seriously. Talk about "Hard Times." Will we have people knocking on our doors begging for something to eat? If they come to my door, I will feed them. Austerity is going to suck for allot of innocent people. But the Repubs will stand up there and say "American Exceptionalism!" and declare that "The USA is the greatest Nation on planet Earth!" I swear, if I hear one of them say these things, I'll be tempted to crash my TV, or at least unplug the damn thing and move it to the barn.

obxhead

(8,434 posts)

12. Only the poor shall suffer!

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Tue Mar 12, 2013, 05:44 PM

Mar 2013

If you're not sure if you're poor or not the answer is probably yes.

If you think you're aren't poor, you better double check.

Smilo

(1,944 posts)

13. Even Marie Antoinette would

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Tue Mar 12, 2013, 06:31 PM

Mar 2013

be disgusted with these so called compassionate conservatives.

This is so cruel - unnecessary and cruel.

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)

14. There are a vast number of hard working people who HATE their jobs...

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Tue Mar 12, 2013, 06:43 PM

Mar 2013

Republicans are telling those people they are paying for a huge chunk of the population who aren't suffering like they are. They are lazy and sponging off the system and the only way to get them up off their asses is to cut them off from all the free stuff and force them to get a job so they can be just as miserable.

It's a "misery loves company" thing.

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