Debbie Stabenow wants to stamp out welfare and food stamp fraud and give big wet kisses

to big agriculture. She, and dems like her, deserve more criticism than crazy ass republicans.

Why? Because she's supposed to be on our side. She's supposed to be fighting for working people, the poor, the middle class, not fucking them over.

Not lying about them, not lying to them. fuck dems like her.


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In the year 2000, as a private citizen on vacation time, I volunteered for a week in Grand Rapids, Michigan to help elect Debbie Stabenow to the United States Senate. That is why it is particularly painful to me that not only is she playing a key role in cutting nutrition assistance for struggling families, but she also is not being straightforward with the public about the impact of the policies she is promoting.

Virtually all advocates—myself included—agree with her efforts to stop lottery winners from continuing to receive assistance and to crack down on retailer benefit trafficking. But given how rare lottery winners and retailer fraud are, those changes are mostly cosmetic and have nothing to do with the more than $8 billion in nutrition cuts that she is proposing.

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When Senate Ag leadership likens the cuts to SNAP as “savings” that curb “misuse of a LIHEAP paperwork policy,” we can see that they do not fully grasp the way that American families experience hunger and food insecurity.

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http://www.thenation.com/blog/177495/while-obama-talks-poverty-stabenow-agrees-8-billion-more-snap-cuts#


http://democraticprogress.net/2014/01/senator-debbie-stabenow-tpp-flunky-and.html

And I want to put in a negative word for all three of my reps in D.C. who voted for the piece of dog shit that is the Farm Bill:

Shame on you Pat Leahy.

Shame on you Bernie

Shame on you Peter Welch.

Having said that, none of the three are in Deb's corporate class.