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Lady Freedom Returns

(14,120 posts) Mon Jun 17, 2013, 07:15 PM Jun 2013

Thank God and President Obama! (OP in the Barack Obama Group)

This House bill is worse than the one from the Senate. There is things in it that is needed, but the SNAP part is a danger for many of those that are working poor and homeless.

But Obama, once again, got our back!

White House threatens veto of House Farm Bill over cuts to Food Stamps Program

ASHINGTON — The White House is threatening to veto the House version of a massive, five-year farm bill, saying food stamp cuts included in the legislation could leave some Americans hungry.

The House is preparing to consider the bill this week. The legislation would cut $2 billion annually, or around 3 percent, from food stamps and make it harder for some people to qualify for the program. Food stamps, now called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, cost almost $80 billion last year, twice the amount it cost five years ago.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal_government/white-house-threatens-veto-of-house-farm-bill-over-cuts-to-food-stamp-program/2013/06/17/4b7e9bd4-d79b-11e2-b418-9dfa095e125d_story.html

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Thank God and President Obama! (OP in the Barack Obama Group) (Original Post) Lady Freedom Returns Jun 2013 OP

It's just sickening. Wait Wut Jun 2013 #1

Wish I could make the local teabaggers, IrishAyes Jun 2013 #2

Thank Goodness the Koch teabagger house flunkies Cha Jun 2013 #3

K&R! sheshe2 Jun 2013 #4

Well, that is going to hurt the heads of some of the Democrats posting over in the GD forum. Major Hogwash Jun 2013 #5

Wait Wut

(8,492 posts)

1. It's just sickening.

Reply to Lady Freedom Returns (Original post)

Mon Jun 17, 2013, 07:22 PM

Jun 2013

I'd say we need to send these assholes pictures of starving American children to see the fruits of their 'labors', but it wouldn't make a damned bit of difference.

Pres. Obama shouldn't just veto the damned thing, he should make them eat it.

K&R for GOOD NEWS!!!

IrishAyes

(6,151 posts)

2. Wish I could make the local teabaggers,

Reply to Lady Freedom Returns (Original post)

Mon Jun 17, 2013, 08:58 PM

Jun 2013

most of whom ARE on food stamps and Medicaid, understand who really helps them, but they're so hate-sick it's like watching a bunch of heroin addicts undergoing heavy withdrawal. Morphs into sheer, mindless terror and so easy for the GOP to manipulate.

Cha

(297,275 posts)

3. Thank Goodness the Koch teabagger house flunkies

Reply to Lady Freedom Returns (Original post)

Mon Jun 17, 2013, 09:22 PM

Jun 2013

will not get away with this, Lady Freedom Returns.

the gopricks won't let a JOBS Bill pass OR ANYTHING ELSE of PBO's so more people need SNAP.. and now they want them to f****** Starve.

sheshe2

(83,785 posts)

4. K&R!

Reply to Lady Freedom Returns (Original post)

Mon Jun 17, 2013, 11:05 PM

Jun 2013

Thank you for posting, Lady Freedom.

The White House said in its statement Monday that food stamps are “a cornerstone of our nation’s food assistance safety net.” The administration argued that the House should make deeper cuts to farm subsidies like crop insurance instead.

The GOP are over the top in their hatred of The People of this Nation.

Major Hogwash

(17,656 posts)

5. Well, that is going to hurt the heads of some of the Democrats posting over in the GD forum.

Reply to Lady Freedom Returns (Original post)

Tue Jun 18, 2013, 12:01 AM

Jun 2013

When they find out that we are spending as much on the NSA program, that some of them seem to be so worried about, as we are spending on the SNAP program.

It's incredible that the Rethuglicans in Congress want to cut any money from the SNAP program when you realize that most of the recipients of that program are from the so-called "red states", where most of the GOP's Tea Party coalition Congress critters come from.

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