Mon Jun 10, 2013, 08:25 PM
Lady Freedom Returns (4,844 posts)
Senate passes SNAP cuts on a bipartisan 66-27 vote.
The bill approved by the House Agriculture Committee last month would make much larger cuts to food stamps than the Senate version, in a bid to gain support from those House conservatives who have opposed the measure. The Senate bill would cut the food stamp program, now known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, by about $400 million a year, or half a percent. The House bill would cut the program by $2 billion a year, or a little more than 3 percent, and make it more difficult for some people to qualify.
And as stated, the House bill has BIGGER cuts.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022987698The Senate votes for a devastating one-half-of-one-single-percent reduction in the ten-year trillion dollar foodstamp bill.
Foodstamp spending since the jug-eared muslim assumed the Presidency:
2008 ..... $37.6 billion
2009 ..... $53.6 billion
2010 ..... $68.3 billion
2011 ..... $75.7 billion
2012 ..... $78.4 billion
So the Senate bill is for $0.4 billion less. Devastating.
And I'll believe it's an actual cut, not just a reduction in spending growth, when I see it.
Mon Jun 10, 2013, 08:26 PM
MotherPetrie (2,006 posts)
1. EVIL ****ERS
It's evil.
Mon Jun 10, 2013, 08:28 PM
aquart (67,608 posts)
2. Rename it so it doesn't sound like food, then gut it.
It's gutted, only more than doubled since the Kenyan showed up.
Mon Jun 10, 2013, 08:44 PM
quinnox (15,975 posts)
6. un****in'believable
It's unbelievable. Yes. Yes, it is.
Mon Jun 10, 2013, 08:49 PM
Apophis (884 posts)
10. Absolutely disgusting.
It's disgusting. Yes. Yes, it is.
Mon Jun 10, 2013, 09:13 PM
DevonRex (20,220 posts)
14. And there it is. Look over there at what we already knew while we
we starve people to death.
Here, I have to disagree.
Admittedly, the only close look I get at the democrats we feed is on "First 48", "Cops", and "Bait Car", but none of them look close to starvation, and they all look able to easily absorb a one-half percent cut in their taxpayer-provided rations.
In fact, most 0bamaites (the adult women without exception) look morbidly obese from feeding on government chow. A deep cut in the dole would probably be the best thing their jug-eared messiah could do for them.