Posted on 11/12/2013 9:01:13 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
On Nov. 1, sizable cuts were gouged into the federal food-stamp program (or, as it’s now called, SNAP, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), which feeds 47.6 million people, or nearly one in six Americans. In the city, 1.9 million folks get the bulk of their Jell-O and Campbell’s Soup from stamps.
But ...it wasn’t heartless Republicans who triggered the cuts.
Rather, some of the food-stamp cash was snatched to pay for Michelle Obama’s pet project, Let’s Move...
The great food grab began in 2010, when President Obama, with Michelle and US Department of Agriculture honchos at his side, signed the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act. At the time, he admitted taking cash from one pocket to feed the other….
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>>In the city, 1.9 million folks get the bulk of their Jell-O and Campbell’s Soup from stamps.<<
Bullcrap it’s Jell-o and Soup. More like chips, cakes, pop, and other types of junk food.
At least, that’s what I see here in Appalachia.
The irony of that is that MSNBC libs have been whining for weeks about those recent automatic food stamp cuts, from the stimulus bill.
Chewie can’t pretend to garden—too cold. She needs something to do.
Won’t any Democrats think of the ... children?
Headline:
President fights obesity by cutting food stamps.
Women, children and minorities hardest hit.
I’m sure Eleanor Clift will see nothing hypocritical about this.
Of course not, she is just another of the “it takes a village”idiots.
I wish Moochelle would move and take that deadbeat husband with her.
Michelle needs to move and reduce the size of that posterior.
Enjoy “Fat Bottom Girls” (Fat Butt Michelle)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB5Hjz9LZQE
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