Posted on 01/27/2014 7:37:56 PM PST by Olog-hai
A House plan to make major cuts to food stamps would be scaled back under a bipartisan agreement on a massive farm bill, a near end to a more than two-year fight that has threatened to hurt rural lawmakers in an election year.
The measure announced Monday by the House and Senate Agriculture committees preserves food stamp benefits for most Americans who receive them and continues generous subsidies for farmers. The House was expected to vote on the bill Wednesday, with the Senate following shortly after.
The compromise was expected to cut food stamps by about $800 million a year, or around 1 percent. The House in September passed legislation cutting 5 percent from the $80 billion-a-year program. The House bill also would have allowed states to implement broad new work requirements for food stamp recipients. That has been scaled back to a test program in 10 states. …
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A billion American children will starve!!!!
Is this more baseline BS? Meaning the rate of increase is only 6% not the usual 7% baseline increase, then term the whole thing as a Draconian 1% “cut”?
Do it!
An $800 million cut in food stamps, or 1% of an $80 billion boondoogle, from Zer0’s program that has increased 50% in the past 4 years.
Gimmee, gimmee, gimmee, and I love’s that Obama!
The idiot GOP just gave the Dems an election year gift. They pass a non-cut cut, which will allow the Dems to scream “The evil Republicans keep cutting aid to the poor!!!”
The Dems would scream that anyway. The answer would be to get no cuts at all?
Cutting it by reducing the appropriation in a bill, just gives the democrats the opportunity to say the GOP is against the poor.
Cutting it by reducing the appropriation in a bill, just gives the democrats the opportunity to say the GOP is against the poor.
Spend, spend, spend. Invest in guillotines.
Furthermore, the GOP-e keeps treating policy like a popularity contest. Maggie Thatcher’s last advice to David Cameron was “be more unpopular”; if the GOP would follow that, they would get somewhere.
Already told you that by itself will not put more Americans back to work.
I'm afraid that the GOP is now just a wholly owned subsidiary of the DNC.
You're still wrong.
No. We’ve never had such a regulatory and corporate-taxation environment as this, especially during the time when the federal government’s primary source of revenue was tariffs on imported goods; and we certainly never had the kind of bloated welfare state we now are saddled with. Those has to come down before we can even think of raising tariffs, or else no businessmen will dare to invest in the country.
Look at New York state, attempting to attract business back in by—doing what?—offering tax breaks. Not that it’s working too well, for a myriad of other reasons, those being regulatory—and the federal government is no help either with its piling on.
Popular to whom? A 1% cut isn't satisfying to anybody.
People like me, that think fixing the economy will automatically cut food stamps, don't want to see support pulled before the economy is fixed, and think the cut just feeds the democrats propaganda against the GOP.
And people who (wrongly) think the jobs are out there and the aid is a major disincentive to go to work, want to see a lot more than 1%.
Nobody is going to be satisfied by this, except the democrat anti-GOP spin machine.
Popular to whom? A 1% cut isn't satisfying to anybody.
People like me, that think fixing the economy will automatically cut food stamps, don't want to see support pulled before the economy is fixed, and think the cut just feeds the democrats propaganda against the GOP.
And people who (wrongly) think the jobs are out there and the aid is a major disincentive to go to work, want to see a lot more than 1%.
Nobody is going to be satisfied by this, except the democrat anti-GOP spin machine.
Yes, and that’s part of the GOP establishment helping the cause of the liberal left. Bipartisanism exists only to serve the left these days.
At least!
And the fact is, we don't want to compete with countries like China on lack of environmental or worker safety regulations. Free trade is a race to the bottom for wages, to the bottom for environmental regulations, to the bottom for social support programs.
We don't want to go there, and the way to stop China from dragging us there, is to charge them a good tariff for admission to our consumer market.
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