Cuts to food stamps will only hit 4 states
As of now, the cuts put forward by Republicans will only affect Michigan, Wisconsin, New Jersey and New Hampshire.
By MARY CLARE JALONICK
WASHINGTON (AP) - Cuts to the nation's food stamp program enacted this year are only affecting four states, far from the sweeping overhaul that Republicans had pushed, an Associated Press review has found.
As a result, it's unclear whether the law will realize the estimated $8.6 billion in savings over 10 years that the GOP had advertised.
A farm bill signed by President Barack Obama in February attempted to save money by scaling back what lawmakers called a loophole in the food stamp program that entitles low-income families to more food aid if they participate in a federal heating assistance program. States were giving some people as little as $1 a year in heating assistance so they could get more food aid. It's called "heat and eat."
Among the 16 states that allow the practice or some form of it, 12 governors have taken steps to avoid the food stamp cuts.
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Wisconsin.
Got that? ONLY four states. Not the massive cuts you were expecting. ONLY the poor populations of four measly. It's in the headline; it's in the article.
Nothing bad happened. Nothing to see here. In fact, this is great news. If that is, you don't give a crap about the poor populations of New Jersey New Hampshire, Michigan and Wisconsin.
As it happens, I do. After all, those hungry fuckers from New Hampshire might come to Massachusetts.
(I apologize if the emote insults your intelligence. Some seem to need it, no matter what.)
Can anyone remind me just how many cuts to food stamps or some kind of food program this makes now since January 2009?
Meanwhile, this country has 57 newly minted billionaires. 
