Posted on 08/08/2023 8:48:30 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Democrats on the House Agriculture Committee on Monday called on Republican leaders to stop threatening cuts to SNAP benefits with less than two months to finish up the 2023 farm bill, and warned that continued threats could jeopardize the prospects for progress on the bill.
In a letter addressed to Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), the 25 Democrats on the committee expressed concerns about comments from McCarthy’s leadership team threatening potential cuts to the largest U.S. food aid program to low-income Americans and asked the speaker not to interfere with the committee’s work.
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Ages 50-55 is probably the most difficult ages to get a job. This was not a good idea.
No SNAP benefit without working for them....
Yeah I see a lot of starving Americans when I go to Walmart
Yep just look for the donkey.
Precisely. Particularly when companies go around firing anyone older than fifty
Another thing....there have been so many advancements...50 year olds who got their college degree in the 1980s...many of those degrees are sooooo outdated with new technology.
Why is SNAP needed when Bidonomics is working so well?
They get a lot of money too. I wish they’d at least put limits on what they can buy. Perhaps 2 bags of crab legs, 3 bags of sweets, 3 12 packs of coke, 4 t bone steaks. You’d be shocked what people buy. The grocery stores don’t care. It’s profits for them.
That would be true if today’s universities were putting out quality product. A lot of these graduates today are almost functional illiterate. Technology skills are easily updated without universities. Work ethic and basic communication skills are never outdated.
Ages 50-55 is probably the most difficult ages to get a job.
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75-80+ people are being snapped up! /s
APRIL 3, 2023 11:36AM
SNAP Spending Doubles to $127 Billion
By Chris Edwards
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Federal government spending soared 40 percent between 2019 and 2023. The government passed large spending bills in response to the pandemic, but spending remains high today even though the crisis has passed.
The ratcheting‐up of spending is evident with the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). SNAP benefits, or food stamps, are administered by the states but funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and ultimately federal taxpayers.
SNAP spending doubled from $63 billion in 2019 to $127 billion in 2023.
“threatening potential cuts”
I think it’s probably more like “threatening not to extend COVID-era ‘temporary’ increases”. I remember they increased SNAP benefits when they closed all the schools, because kids were not going to get their free lunches.
Democrats love to buy votes with taxpayer-funded giveaway programs. They were quite successful creating minority slums and broken families through their New Deal and Great Society programs. Unfortunately, minorities fail to see how Democrats kept them in a depressing cellar for decades.
Not if they stayed current
Plus not all majors suffer from that down side
75-80+ people are being snapped up!
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I/m 78 and if somebody offers me a job, I’m gonna be pissed.
I’ve been retired for 24 years and I like it that way.
Dependency is their game over responsibility and individualism
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