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"I call it misplaced priorities. How do you justify doing something like this, while at the same time giving people like Herb Kohl huge tax cuts?" said Kohl, a multimillionaire.

LOL! Does he think he's Bob Dole, speaking in the Third Person like that? I can't believe he could put together a coherent sentence, actually. My Senator. *SIGH*

Herb could pick up this program himself and provide veggies & cheese to Granny with the chump change he has in his pocket. But that would be considered a duplicative effort were it HIS money and not ours. *Rolleyes*

1 posted on 02/10/2006 7:00:38 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
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"Jimmy likes tax breaks for the rich."


2 posted on 02/10/2006 7:03:26 AM PST by oldleft
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Seniors have repeatedly said they don't want to be on that program," Robertson said, because of the perceived stigma of using food stamps and the paperwork hassles.

So, old people who never saved a dime in their lives don't want anyone to call them on it, or put them through the ordeal of admitting in writing that they are irresponsible losers?

3 posted on 02/10/2006 7:04:04 AM PST by Pukin Dog (Sans Reproache)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Kill this program and let private charities take care of this. How did the elderly survive during the good old days of the 1800s?

Who's going to be Kohl's sacrifical lamb this year for the Senate race?

4 posted on 02/10/2006 7:04:07 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (None genuine without my signature)
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"made by an electronic transfer card, not actual stamps."

Hide the problem and it will go away, apparently.


5 posted on 02/10/2006 7:04:49 AM PST by jdm (Who gets the deer, me or the dog?)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
OH NO! Dubya is cutting off the FREE CHEESE!

Which is one of the most idiotic things the gubmint does - and that's saying something. Everyone throws this crap out or gives it away.

8 posted on 02/10/2006 7:05:54 AM PST by Condor51 (Better to fight for something than live for nothing - Gen. George S. Patton)
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Where are these people's FAMILIES???? Aren't they supposed to take care of them?


10 posted on 02/10/2006 7:05:55 AM PST by The Old Hoosier (Right makes might.)
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Drowns them, then eats them apparently.

;)

11 posted on 02/10/2006 7:06:11 AM PST by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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"How do you justify doing something like this, while at the same time giving people like Herb Kohl huge tax cuts?" said Kohl, a multimillionaire."

Here's what you do, Herbie, if you don't think you're paying enough in taxes:
write the gummint a check for more!

Just get your theivin' hand out of MY pocket, cheesebreath!

13 posted on 02/10/2006 7:06:50 AM PST by Redbob
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"Herb Kohl is Mad as H#ll and He's Not Going to Take it Anymore!" Ping

Could our Senator be any more USELESS to us? Grrrrr!


14 posted on 02/10/2006 7:07:52 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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I'd be happy if all gov't social programs were eliminated!


15 posted on 02/10/2006 7:08:28 AM PST by TheDon (The Democratic Party is the party of TREASON!)
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nutritionally balanced boxes of food to about a half-million poor people

Why are we trying to feed 500,000 individual people with one program. Why don't we just create 500,000 programs, and have each program service the individual needs of their sole recipient? /sarcasm

18 posted on 02/10/2006 7:10:26 AM PST by C210N (Bush SPYED, Terrorists DIED!)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Journal Sentenial is just another DemoRAT, lib, fish-wrap.

Listen to Charlie Sykes. He's da man!

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21 posted on 02/10/2006 7:11:25 AM PST by KeyLargo
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Jean Daniel, a spokeswoman for the USDA's Food and Nutrition Service, "... this is not a welfare program, this is a nutritional assistance program."

Gotta love those bureaucrats!

22 posted on 02/10/2006 7:14:42 AM PST by DumpsterDiver
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

SSDD.. Drop the rate of growth by a penny and the left will claim Bush is starving seniors, school children and the poor.. all for his rich buddies..


24 posted on 02/10/2006 7:18:44 AM PST by mnehring (Perry 06- It's better than a hippie in a cowboy hat or a commie with blue hair.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
"I call it misplaced priorities. How do you justify doing something like this, while at the same time giving people like Herb Kohl huge tax cuts?" said Kohl, a multimillionaire. Well then Mr. Kohl, since you are a multimillionaire why don't you do some charity and provide the veggies and whatnot to the seniors in your state?

5,000 seniors x $20 a box (roughly) = $100,000 a month. Surely a multimillionaire who gets huge tax cuts can afford to take care of the people of his state.

And since people who keep more of their money from taxes have more money to give to charities.
26 posted on 02/10/2006 7:19:31 AM PST by Mcirrus (Future Reference)
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Seniors have repeatedly said they don't want to be on that program," Robertson said, because of the perceived stigma of using food stamps and the paperwork hassles.

This statement is such a load of bull that I don't know where to start.....

1. IF people were really starving or choosing between meds and food then they would shelf their pride and get the damn things, so they can't be all that hurting.

2. They don't want to deal with the "paperwork hassles" and somehow that is MY fault! Their incompetence and laziness suggested in that comment is why they are supposedly in the situation that they are in and again that is not MY fault.

3. IF only 28% of eligible participants are participating then common sense tells us that the other 72% don't need help and that the eligibility levels are way too low...just like the left to tell people that they know best and know what is good for them.

The left won't be happy until every last one of us are under their socialist thumb.
28 posted on 02/10/2006 7:21:50 AM PST by socialismisinsidious (Liberals are all about choice UNTIL you choose differently than them.)
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Talk about negative Democrat spin. Bush simply wants to consolifdate programs in order to avoid the extra cost from duplication, especially in administrative overhead. And how hypocritical is it of seniors to take this form of 'charity' but won't take food stamps. At least under this program, they won't starve like they did in the 1800's.


29 posted on 02/10/2006 7:22:42 AM PST by doc30 (Democrats are to morals what and Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
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"I'm old. Gimme, gimme, gimme."

31 posted on 02/10/2006 7:24:06 AM PST by dfwgator
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"Seniors have repeatedly said they don't want to be on that program,"

Yadda, yadda, yadda. Beggars of a free lunch cannot be choosers.

33 posted on 02/10/2006 7:26:40 AM PST by JoeGar
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Wisconsin Sen. Herb Kohl ... said he would oppose it.

And from what state does the "free cheese" come? Hmmmm? Does anyone else see this as self-serving politics?

34 posted on 02/10/2006 7:30:00 AM PST by JoeGar
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