Posted on 08/11/2010 4:14:09 AM PDT by EBH
But the bill also requires that $12 billion be stripped from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as food stamps, to help fund the new bill, prompting some Democrats to cringe at the notion of cutting back on one necessity to pay for another.
Arguably one of the most outspoken opponents on the Democratic side is Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro, who has blasted the move as “a bitter pill to swallow” but still voted yes.
“I fought very hard for the food assistance money in the Recovery Act, and the fact is that participation in the food stamps program has jumped dramatically with the economic crisis, from 31.1 million persons to 38.2 million just in one year,” DeLauro said in an e-mail sent to FoxNews.com. “But I know that states across the nation and my own state of Connecticut also desperately need these resources to save jobs and avoid Draconian cuts to essential services...
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I some how don't consider union teachers essential services like I do food stamps.
No doubt mamy on food stamps or other government subsidies voted for Obama. The only way to shake them from their stupor is to make cuts like this — to impact their lives. Up until now, the mantra was the rich are evil, and we will make them pay to help you, the downtrodden. It will take a severe circumstance, like cuts in food stamps, to convince the true believers they have been worshipping a false idol.
This is deliberately applying pressure to a group that is primarily made up of Obama voters that have started to go soft.
Exactly what I was thinking.
This is a shot across the bow.
So they’re STEALING FOOD FROM THE MOUTHS OF BABIES to pay off the big union bosses to work for their re-election in November.
(spoken like the Dems would, if the shoe was on the other foot...or something like that)
Democrats cringe when faced with the reality the rest of us face on a daily basis.
When you see all you enemies standing in the same puddle of gasoline, throw in a match and get out of the way.
We conservatives should just let the liberals destroy each other over where to spend the diminishing resources of government, goading both sides, and letting the public see the folly of both of them.
Perhaps we could revive the idea of the GOP commercial used in the 1980 election, which showed Tip O’Neill and the Democrats running out of gas.
Yeah, right—a food stampe cut. [/s] As if they won’t put this $$ back later and demogague anyone who opposes it as trying to “starve kids”. More and more I think that the way to get people out of “stupid” gear is to eliminate the safety net all together. Think of how more motivated and careful people would be if there were nothing between them and the consequences of their behavior.
The idiots voted for these people to ‘clean up the mess’ made by Bush. This is like hiring Dennis the Menace as you maid. What a mess!
Bush’s mess was having a Democrat Congress and not vetoing anything they sent him!
>>>>>Arguably one of the most outspoken opponents on the Democratic side is Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro, who has blasted the move as “a bitter pill to swallow” but still voted yes. <<<<<<
Ha ha these people don’t believe in what thy vote for , yet they will not dissappoint The Messiah, and vote their conscience.
Anyone who voted for people like this need their heads examined, this woman doesnt even have the courage to vote her convictions. She doesnt deserve to be in Congress. There are a hundred just like her. Mere tools.
There goes the whole facade about liberal compassion and chaity. When necessary to take care of the union interests, the poor get chucked right under the bus. Liberal hypocrisy is breathtaking.
Disturbing teachers on summer vacation with reality...
THANK GOD a cut in food stamps is NOT a tax increase for those making under $250,000 a year... :-)
Pfft...like the cuts would ever actually happen. They will past a $20B bailout of the food stamp program next week.
For the children.
Amen.
It’s clear whom the Dims are owned by.
Indeed this could backfire on them big time. There are lots of people who have recently turned to food stamps though as a last resort. The cheats will always find a way around things. But, as people begin to have to find alternative sources of food in these worsening economic times...they just may find themselves on the steps of a church.
From a political standpoint conservatives always have talked about self-sufficiency and yet, still be charitable. Is there a “missionary style” calling to not only provide minimal food assistance, with an opportunity teach our country’s true Constitutional values? It this the opportunity to demonstrate that the elitists can’t help them?
Should we turn this into a political hot potato? Not so much as a finger pointing blame game, but how by returning to our Founding Father’s wisdom we can save ourselves.
Keep in mind that controlling access to food was the first things Stalin, Lenin, Mao, even Castro did in order to gain tyranny over the people. They held no moral compunction against letting people starve.
I find it interesting that in the past few days several threads have been posted revolving around food control by the government.
Is it any wonder they think we're sheep?
Here's how they did it:
"When the stimulus passed, it included a big hike in funding for the food stamp program. But the extra funding was calculated based on a projected inflation rate for food prices that turned out to be far too high, meaning the extra funding would extend until 2018 or 2019. The offsets in the new bill trim those added benefits back so that they'll only last until 2015, which is still two years longer than originally anticipated. So the food stamp cuts aren’t exactly cuts; instead, Congress is scaling back temporary bonus funding that turned out to have had more money set aside than was actually necessary to achieve its intended goals."
Source: reason.com
Anybody remember what paygo is? I think it's a law or something...
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