Posted on 09/16/2013 8:01:52 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The House is expected to consider a bill this week that would cut food stamps by an estimated $4 billion annually and allow states to put broad new work requirements in place for recipients.
The legislation also would end government waivers that have allowed able-bodied adults who don’t have dependents to receive food stamps indefinitely.
The vote comes after the House defeated a wide-ranging farm bill in June because many conservatives believed the cuts to the nearly $80 billion-a-year food stamp program weren’t high enough. That bill would have made around $2 billion a year in cuts. …
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This $4 billion cut is actually an increase, right?
That’s all nice-sounding, but will they have the will and backbone to go through with their promises?
The old saying, “Don’t count your chickens before they hatch” comes to mind. In this case, we are not sure we even have real eggs.
When is it okay to apply for food stamps?
When you can’t eat?
When you have no where to live?
When you have no job?
None of these?
Let me guess that its not a cut and if it were it’s insignificant
You get it. Now if a few million others figured this scam out.
It’s just the same old game they play. Mid-term elections are coming up, and these House guys need to go home and say they voted for some really tough “conservative” bills, knowing full well the Senate will either kill it or strip the language. They’re playing us for suckers again. Nothing more.
They might put in a requrement. Like that you have actually, at one time or another, ever paid taxes.
Which would shake off most of Holder’s people.
the food police are constantly telling us we have an obesity problem. so cutting back on food stamps should help with that problem.
Meanwhile neither party is doing anything about the real problem. Raise the import tariffs and replace all those Chinese made goods with American made goods.
I rec’d an email from the St. Vincent de Paul Society (national org) stating that tomorrow was ‘call in day’ about this. Although I am a SVdP volunteer at my parish, I disagree with their positions. I volunteer because I think it’s MY responsibility to help the poor, not the gov’s.
So I went to google to see if I could find some quotes from R congresscritters explaining their opposition (nice for Facebook references). I couldn’t find anything non-left in the 1st couple of pages of pages, so I gave up.
I’m sure the info is out there, but someone looking for both sides of the story will not find it on google. Pretty scary...
That’s all?
Eliminate food stamps would be better!
I used to work retail meat. Even though I made good money the welfare crowd seemed to eat as least as well as I did.
I think we should go back to a food bank concept; no choice if you are on the dole and “needy” - a couple bags of dry and caned staples and some frozen ground beef. No steaks, no shrimp, no crab.
People need an incentive to get off the dole, this would be a start.
for later.
So would heaping SHAME on able bodied adults for accepting an EBT card. Go back to coupon books too.
This seems so easy. Am I missing something?
Food stamp enrollees give up the right to vote. They’ll have to trust the rest of the country (for whom the government works) to ensure their fair share of government food.
The money is running out, anyway, the kids going to school now are going to be paying for this if we don’t stop it; why should they pay for this?
I like this. If a food-stamper can trust me to pay for his food, he can trust me to vote for him, too.
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