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Protect and strengthen SNAP to nourish our children
The Hill ^ | 09/11/2023 | CHRISTY GLEASON AND EUGENE CHO

Posted on 09/11/2023 12:19:23 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Events of recent years have emphasized the health imperative of ensuring the well-being of our most vulnerable citizens, especially our children. Every child deserves a chance to grow, learn and thrive, unburdened by the shackles of hunger. This is a call to action — a plea to Congress to safeguard the future by protecting and strengthening the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

SNAP has long been a lifeline for millions of American families struggling to make ends meet. It helps countless parents supplement their household budgets. This, in turn, helps disrupt the cycle of poverty. By providing families with the supplemental means to put nutritious food on the table, SNAP contributes directly to the health and development of our nation’s youth.

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KEYWORDS: children; nourish; protect; snap
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Is this before or after their parents sell their SNAP benefits for booze and meth?

Christy and Eugene are right out of the soviet union. What a cringe article

1 posted on 09/11/2023 12:19:23 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Cast it as a way to combat Russian aggression and support would be bipartisan.


2 posted on 09/11/2023 12:22:10 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Abolish SNAP. And TANF. And WIC. And AFDC. And Section 8.


3 posted on 09/11/2023 12:22:49 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Feed your own damn children.


4 posted on 09/11/2023 12:22:58 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Kids Intentionally Poisoned by Artificial School Lunches

https://discernreport.com/kids-intentionally-poisoned-by-artificial-school-lunches/


5 posted on 09/11/2023 12:23:44 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. (Psalm 33:12))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Oh ... yeah ... Deport illegal aliens. All of them.


6 posted on 09/11/2023 12:23:59 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: All

Half the country is obese
I don’t think access to food is a problem


7 posted on 09/11/2023 12:24:08 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Not my kids.


8 posted on 09/11/2023 12:24:10 PM PDT by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Use Benefits.gov to find government benefits you qualify for:

https://www.usa.gov/find-government-benefits


9 posted on 09/11/2023 12:28:56 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money)
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To: escapefromboston

Our uninvited guests from south of the border are prone to weight gain on the diet of modern America. Gonna be a lotta rotund little kids, needing joint replacements by 40.


10 posted on 09/11/2023 12:32:26 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How about killing all these programs and make parents responsible for there kids.


11 posted on 09/11/2023 12:35:01 PM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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It’s funny but my folks fed all five of their kids and my wife and I fed our three kids all without SNAP or EBT cards.


12 posted on 09/11/2023 12:37:25 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: Tench_Coxe

Every dollar the government hands out to others was (or will be) taken under the threat of punishment from a taxpayer

1. - End 2nd, 3d and 4th generation welfare dynasties

2. - Put able bodied parents to work

3. - Get able bodied homeless off government handouts

4. - Cut all government handouts to illegals

5. - End retirement plans for elected officials - they have Social Security like everyone else. If they want a retirement program they should get a real job.

Contrary to the way democrats (and RINOs) treat taxpayers - America’s treasury isn’t supposed to be used as the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow


13 posted on 09/11/2023 12:42:20 PM PDT by Iron Munro (An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Because baby daddies run away from their ill gotten sperm rejects!


14 posted on 09/11/2023 12:50:43 PM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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If a kid gets free breakfast lunch and after school snack deduct that from SNAP paid to parent


15 posted on 09/11/2023 12:55:27 PM PDT by RWGinger (FJB)
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To: gundog
Our uninvited guests from south of the border are prone to weight gain on the diet of modern America.
Gonna be a lotta rotund little kids, needing joint replacements by 40.

It's already here. And not just the kids.

Adult wide-body mega-butts, flabby bellies and turkey legs prevail on the streets in the Spanish speaking town and city areas (Spanish Harlems) taken over by the brown invaders.

It's not like in the movies!


16 posted on 09/11/2023 12:57:14 PM PDT by Iron Munro (An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes)
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Is this before or after their parents sell their SNAP benefits for booze and meth?

The scam in my area seems to be shady middle eastern convenience stores ring up fake food purchases for the full amount of the SNAP benefits, then give the recipient the value in cash at 50-70 cents on the dollar (then, of course, get fully reimbursed by the government so they make a 30-50% profit). The recipients use the cash to buy their drugs or whatever. On the days the benefits are deposited on the SNAP cards you can literally see a line going out the door at the local convenience store.

17 posted on 09/11/2023 1:02:22 PM PDT by apillar
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To: stars & stripes forever

Frankenfood-unfit for human consumption-no wonder the kids are obese-and they are not hungry. If the authors of this boo hoo article really want to do something useful, make parents responsible for their own kids-not anyone else-and if a few of them really qualify for SNAP, make it short term and it only pays for REAL, fresh food with nutritional value that actually has to be cooked-there is no reason for any kid to be hungry in the US...


18 posted on 09/11/2023 1:06:50 PM PDT by Texan5
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How about you pay for your own kids and I’ll pay for mine. And you quit using the gov to steal that money from me at gunpoint, for you to use on your kids? Sound like a deal?


19 posted on 09/11/2023 1:10:38 PM PDT by curious7
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Re: "USA children, unburdened by the shackles of hunger."

Sorry, that's not serious.

In early 2009, Michelle Obama announced that her first goal as First Lady would be to end child obesity!

20 posted on 09/11/2023 1:31:26 PM PDT by zeestephen (Trump "Lost" By 43,000 Votes - Spread Across Three States - GA, WI, AZ)
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