Tough sell on food stamp cuts Gillibrand faces battle in bid to restore $4.5B reduction By Dan Freedman Published 11:01 p.m., Sunday, June 17, 2012
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is fighting an uphill battle to restore a $4.5 billion reduction in food stamps, arguing that low-income families should not bear the burden of cutting the nation's budget deficit.
The 46 million beneficiaries of food stamps — 3 million of whom are in New York — "did not spend this nation into debt, and we should not be trying to balance the budgets on their backs," the New York Democrat said on the Senate floor earlier this month.
The cuts to food stamps, now called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP, are included in the Farm Bill now before the Senate. As the product of negotiations between Senate Agriculture Committee chairman Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and ranking Republican Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas, the $969 billion bill is the rarest of commodities on Capitol Hill these days: an act of bipartisanship...........................>>>>.......................>>>>...............Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Tough-sell-on-food-stamp-cuts-3640844.php#ixzz1y8fInwYx
food stamps are restitution for a civilization that lied to the masses about the need NOT to subsist on their own plot of land, to let someone else control the food/water supply.....
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
Who is taking food out of whose hand in that picture. The guy on the right thinks he deserves the fruit of another man's labor without doing a damn thing to earn it.
"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."
Food Stamp Vote In Senate Blocks Bid To Restore $4.5 Billion In Aid Posted: 06/19/2012 7:47 pm Updated: 06/19/2012 8:09 pm
WASHINGTON -- The Senate overwhelmingly rejected a bid to preserve some $4.5 billion in food stamps funding, as part of the massive farm bill, on Tuesday.
The amendment to keep that spending in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, offered by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), failed 33 to 66. Sixty votes were needed to pass.
Gillibrand had hoped to prevent food aid cuts in the $969 billion bill by trimming the guaranteed profit for crop insurance companies from 14 to 12 percent and by lowering payments for crop insurers from $1.3 billion to $825 million.
"We all here in this chamber take the ability to feed our children for granted. That is not the case for too many families in America," Gillibrand said just before the vote. "Put yourselves for just a moment in their shoes. Imagine being a parent who cannot feed your children the food they need to grow. It's beneath this body to cut food assistance for those who are struggling the most among us."
The cuts target the so-called heat-and-eat initiative in which 14 states automatically make families eligible for more food aid if they receive even $1 in help paying their utility bills. The Congressional Budget Office estimated the decrease would amount to about $90 a month for an affected family, representing a quarter of its food budget..............................>>>>...................................>>>>.............................http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/19/food-stamps-vote-senate-kirsten-gillibrand_n_1610590.html
Who is taking food out of whose hand in that picture. The guy on the right thinks he deserves the fruit of another man's labor without doing a damn thing to earn it.
A good point Henry... Who is the man who ends up getting the food in the picture... The Republican... not the man who needs the food... not the man who earned the dollars to buy the food... but the REPUBLICAN!
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Food stamps should NOT be handed out freely JUST because someone is receiving heating assistance.
Both services should be applied and approved for 'separately'.....not in conjunction with!
No one is taking food stamps 'away'..........just removing it from the heating assistance program.
If anyone knows anyone who works for any social service department.....they will know this to be a fact!
I don't see the problem!!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
A good point Henry... Who is the man who ends up getting the food in the picture... The Republican... not the man who needs the food... not the man who earned the dollars to buy the food... but the REPUBLICAN!
Maybe the republican is teaching him nothing is free in this world and if he wants food he must work for it
"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."
I'll have to remember that! I can let the taxpayers pay for my lift tickets if I list them as "SKI THERAPY" for my bad back!
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
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