Did they cut food stamps? No, not really. They changed the rules, putting back in place work requirements, and permitted states to drop drug users.
But that’s not the liberal slant, so instead, it is cutting 40 billion from the poor so they can feed their rich friends more tax cuts...
Just boggles the mind how easily 40 billion is tossed around as a number though. Isn’t that the GDP of a third world country?
If the House REALLY wanted to cut food stamps, they could go back to food distributions of commodities.. Sacks of flour, sugar, lard, beans, cured ham... And if someone complained that their diet doesn’t permit such things, a handout of where to find another food distribution that might offer something more appealing.
Food stamps have always been supported by the agriculture lobby. But in the Era of Baraq, they’ve become such a large percentage of retail food sales that all the stores are in the lobbying force also.
Again, many, many people in cities do not have access to cooking facilities or food storage.
Personally I think we should go back to food distribution centers. No EBT cards that can be sold for cash or used for tattoos, casinos, etc. Provide, bread, butter, milk, eggs, flour, sugar, some meat, vegetables.
I was at lunch wit coworker today and she is major lib. She brought up how Republicans are against public programs for poor people, they hate poor people, they reduced funding for head start, etc”. I tried stating that no, they are against the abuse of those programs. She just said, oh well, there is abuse everywhere and you are always going to have that, etc....
Got quite heated— but she and two other coworkers make the same statement over and over again, Republicans are against poor people.