Posted on 01/13/2023 12:05:32 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
The Agriculture Improvement Act, known as the farm bill, is up for renewal this year and lawmakers will soon debate whether to extend key provisions that currently help 34 million people suffering from food insecurity in America.
But in today’s divisive political environment, where 15 voting rounds are needed to elect a Speaker of the U.S. House, the likelihood that our leaders will reach a consensus on this important legislation, sadly, seems entirely unthinkable. The bill, which requires reauthorization every five years, historically provides funding for nutritional and anti-hunger programs for income-challenged Americans. The bill’s current term, which expires later this year (unless Congress acts), has a total budget of $867 billion, where nearly 80 percent of it funds food stamp programs (now called the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, or SNAP).
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Ukraine has to get their cut to remember??
It is borrowed and printed money like everything else.
The left-—Money and power are evil!!!
The left-—government money and power will resolve our problems.
That's a mighty convoluted way to say, "free eats!"
With this and the debt ceiling, McCarthy is about to get really tested. There is no wiggle room from the base on this. If the GOP caves, his speakership will be over.
Meanwhile, $15 per hour and more jobs go unfilled in most of the country because the deep state has made it too easy to be couch potatoes.
let’s not forget we have severla million more ILLEGALS to feed.
Nothing fixes an economy better than handouts to people who should be working at the expense of taxpayers who do. </sarc>
Half the country is morbidly obese. No one here lacks food security
Our dysfunctual government has made it more profitable for people to stay home not work and get their government handout.
34 million on SNAP. Wonder what it’d be without all the illegals?
Cong Budget Ofc shows 41,500,000. Not sure about the discrepancy in numbers.
Cancelling it would be much wiser.
Hunger is a great motivator.
And charities are still out there.
they need to have a slow cancelation of the extra covid snap benefits...start reducing the extra benefits by 25 dollars each month till the only benefits are the normal amount given in a month. we are in a bad place because of inflation and maxing out benefits... there is a reason that you should never feed wild animals. they become overly dependent on the food source. the same is true for those on public assistance.
Not many years ago, poorer families applied for,and received, free and reduced lunches at school. Then the progressive asshats voted for all students to receive free lunches at school, so the poorer kids wouldn’t be stigmatized.
During the lockdown, in my State, all kids had breakfast and lunch delivered to their home by school buses, since a contract had been signed and had to be paid whether they took kids to school and home or not. Dozens of places, mostly ‘non-profits’, that raked in COVID Bucks, offered free lunch & dinner.
There is very little ‘food insecurity’ - there’s more free food flying around, paid for with our taxes, to kids who couldn’t make a PB&J sandwich for themselves if they had a four week class showing them how to do it.
Who is LYNDON HAVILAND
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We give SNAP money to families to feed their kids and then we feed the kids breakfast, lunch and sometimes dinner at school. Often food is also sent home for the weekend.
Time to start holding people accountable and start distributing basic food like beans, rice, PB and cheese. Let SNAP be used for fresh vegetables etc. and some meats but nothing fancy.
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