Repubs in Congress want to cut food stamps instead of farmer

subsidies. I read What's the Matter with Kansas recently, and found out where the huge bulk of those subsidies are going.

Starve the Poor! Not surprising, since Cheney is one of only two in Congress who, every single year, voted NO to money for school lunches. Now, they don't want them to eat at home, either.

I guess you have to have genocide of the lower class to make room for the middle class that is being pushed into the lower class.

Congress May Cut Food Aid, Not Farm Aid

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4859222,00.html

Saturday March 12, 2005 12:01 AM
By LIBBY QUAID
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - Cuts in food programs for the poor are getting support in Congress as an alternative to President Bush's idea of slicing billions of dollars from the payments that go to large farm operations.

Senior Republicans in both the House and Senate are open to small reductions in farm subsidies, but they adamantly oppose the deep cuts sought by Bush to hold down future federal deficits.

The president wants to lower the maximum subsidies that can be collected each year by any one farm operation from $360,000 to $250,000. He also asked Congress to cut by 5 percent all farm payments, and he wants to close loopholes that enable some growers to annually collect millions of dollars in subsidies.

Instead, Republican committee chairmen are looking to carve savings from nutrition and land conservation programs that are also run by the Agriculture Department. The government is projected to spend $52 billion this year on nutrition programs like food stamps, school lunches and special aid to low-income pregnant women and children. Farm subsidies will total less than half that, $24 billion.

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Someone needs to be starved here, but it ain't the poor.

when hospitals are swamped with people facing the diseases of slow starvation and there is no longer much of a market for all those steaks and mushy factory farmed chickens and even with trans fatty acids in them, convenience food products start to rot on the shelves.

It's terrible that so many of us are going to be badly hurt before those poor dumb sons of bitches in Kansas realize DEMAND SIDE ECONOMICS is the only rational way to go.

by eliminating food stamps, SSI, SSDI, sending jobs overseas, no health care, and serfdom through the bankruptcy bill.

Once they are dead, there will be 'room' at the bottom for the middle class to become the new poor!

Buh bye middle class!

so that they can kill off even more humans all over the world...and of course, get even more wealthy doing it.

that fact that it is gaining support!! my god!!