Posted on 11/01/2013 7:10:56 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Latinos make up 17 percent of the one in six Americans who use food stamps. According to the National Council of La Raza, Latino families experience food insecurity at a higher rate than non-Hispanic white households (23 percent versus 11 percent). SNAP is often a significant buffer from hunger for children, helping to ensure proper growth and development, the group said. Nearly one in three Latino children in the U.S. lives in a household receiving SNAP, according to NCLR. ....
On Friday, White House spokeswoman Katherine Vargas said ”These cuts come at a time when many hardworking American families are still struggling to make ends meet in the wake of the worst recession in decades. That includes Hispanic households, 23 percent of whom suffer from food insecurity and/or hunger.” ....
Rubén Hinojosa, chairman of the Congressional HIspanic Caucus, said in a statement that ”when Republicans refused to extend funding for the SNAP program, they knew that this would drastically affect millions of poor families.”
“I don’t understand the kind of thinking that supports taking the food out of the mouths of our children and our most vulnerable adults. It seems Republicans are more interested in cutting taxes for billionaires than feeding our nation’s poor children,” Hinojosa added.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbclatino.com ...
This is why I get mad at people who feed pigeons.
Maybe the Mexican government and/or La Raza would like to step up and make up the difference.
They can just go to their new Obamacare doctors and get prescriptions for rice.
(shrug) No sh**.
This is why Ubama and the rats are intent on opening the floodgates to the hordes of illegal invaders - - they are the perfect future Democrats to add to the party's moocher base. Future moochers, if you will.
Like $9 a week!!!!!
“Food insecurity”. LOL! Those wacky libs! They come up with the darnedest phrases and old sayings.
Let this be a lesson to conservatives next time Bush, Obama, or some other liberal wants a vast “temporary” increase in spending. They’ll just bewail the bloodshed from the “cuts” when the program expires anyway.
Even with the cuts, they’re still getting more free food here than they were getting from the Mexican government down there.
When does it kick in?
“This is why I get mad at people who feed pigeons.”
Feed them and they will still poop on you.
Just how many of these Latinos are legal?
17% doesnt sound too high.
Latinos will suffer least from the small cut in food stamps ($35 a month.)
They know how to stretch their food dollar, and how to make cheap nutritious meals.
The other welfare people, of a darker sort, are the ones who will riot when their SNAP cards are not accepted at McDonald’s or Carl’s.
“I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.”
~Thomas Jefferson
$44.00 a month on $800.00 is a STEEP cut are these people kidding
me! I HATE THE MSM!!!
I’m not sure I’m reading this correctly,
“On Friday, White House spokeswoman Katherine Vargas said ”These cuts come at a time when many hardworking American families are still struggling to make ends meet in the wake of the worst recession in decades.”
The worst recession in decades? The White House spokeswoman admitted this? That should be the headline. I thought they saved us from a great depression caused by President Bush. /sar
“Steep cuts!! — really, really STEEP Cuts!”
This is the BS Rule of “Cuts.” In truth, the stimulus gave SNAP a temporary boost because of the poor economy. Now, when that temporary increase ends, it’s a CUT?
BTW as regards the illegals, “If you feed them, they will stay!”
I lived in a Latino neighborhood for 10 years. Maybe you could go grocery shopping there and give them tips. They seem to be buying the same crap the other welfare crowd buys.
The best take on this was that one day, Michelle Obama was complaining that the poor eat too much food and become fat. So one of her aides suggested that she come up with some way so they *have* to cut back on the food they eat.
“Why don’t we cut back on their food stamps?”, she asked. “They can’t eat too much food if they can’t afford it!”
“After all,” she concluded, “we’re doing it for their benefit, whether they appreciate it or not!”
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