Senate Makes Further Cuts to Food Stamps to Pay for Medicaid, EduJobs

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[...] So, Harry Reid’s school funding bill has to be paid for. How? By cutting food stamps for the poor. [...]

[...] Senate Makes Further Cuts to Food Stamps to Pay for Medicaid … [...]

[...] Senate Makes Further Cuts to Food Stamps to Pay for Medicaid … [...]

Hopefully, by April of '14, fewer people will need food stamps and those who do won't see that decrease…

Hopefully this will be the case, but the trend is not positive in terms of unemployment and a decimated middle class. Unless and until companies invest in America, more of us will be needing food stamps:
and right now many people are griping about feeding the poor and disabled as they watch their own income disappear. No matter, in a country that has made billions for many, knowing that there are children going hungry, is obscene.
The greedy in this country had better re-align their values and soon.

[...] reason? To capture funds for Medicaid and job creation, reports Annie Lowrey of The Washington Independent: To pay for a much-needed, job-saving and job-creating bill to help ease states’ budget woes, [...]

[...] Senate Makes Further Cuts to Food Stamps to Pay for Medicaid … [...]

[...] Senate Makes Further Cuts to Food Stamps to Pay for Medicaid … [...]

Yet, another reason for people to start growing their own food. Urban gardening will see an increase, my prediction.

[...] Senate Makes Further Cuts to Food Stamps to Pay for Medicaid … [...]

[...] Senate Makes Further Cuts to Food Stamps to Pay for Medicaid … [...]

[...] Senate Makes Further Cuts to Food Stamps to Pay for Medicaid … [...]

[...] Senate Makes Further Cuts to Food Stamps to Pay for Medicaid … [...]

[...] have any other form of income. The planned cuts will reduce benefits for a family of three by about $50 per month, starting in 2014.This means that by cutting off the stimulus money we set aside for the already [...]

[...] did not indicate the bill is offset, and cuts are increasingly hard to find. (This week, the Senate trimmed a food stamp extension to pay for a state-aid bill to keep up Medicaid funding and to save [...]

[...] of the money is coming from cuts to food stamps. The teachers unions are much more powerful than food stamp recipients, and as long as the people [...]

[...] Assistance Program benefits. In 2014, the assistance for a family of three will drop to about $50 a month. This is going to hit low-income women [...]

[...] is surprising is that, according to the Washington Independent, these enterprising union toadies will be rolling back food stamp benefits by $11.9 billion, [...]

[...] is surprising is that, according to the Washington Independent, these enterprising union toadies will be rolling back food stamp benefits by $11.9 billion, [...]

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[...] is surprising is that, according to the Washington Independent, these enterprising union toadies will be rolling back food stamp benefits by $11.9 billion, [...]

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My family used to get $250/month in foodstamps [unemployed, no unemployment check, and wife on SSDI], 3 months ago, the foodstamps were cut to 160/month. They say we make too much. Unemployed = no income. SSDI [Social Security Disability Insurance] = $1000/month, which pays rent, utilities, medicines [wife is on 30 prescriptions].
Yeah, cutting the foodstamps instead of cutting Congressional salary makes sense.

[...] is surprising is that, according to the Washington Independent, these enterprising union toadies will be rolling back food stamp benefits by $11.9 billion, [...]

[...] of their favorite entitlements, the Food Stamp program, is on the chopping block. According to the Washington Independent, "a family of three can expect their benefits to drop about $50 a month. Never before have [...]

This article fails to mention that the Democrats had to cut food benefits to gain enough votes to pass the bill saving 4,700 teacher jobs. Republicans, of course, want more misery and suffering to score political points.

“To gain enough votes to pass the bill, Democrats had to schedule a cut in food assistance funds for 2014, which could reduce by an average of $50 the monthly benefits for a family of three. That provision would offset $12 billion of the bill's cost, but some Democrats have vowed to rescind those cuts before they take effect.
… The vote was largely along party lines. Democratic leaders argued the bill would provide much-needed aid to states and would prevent ballooning class sizes and severe cuts in health care for the poor. Republicans countered the bill was wasteful and constituted a “bailout” for the states.”

From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20100811/METRO/81103…

Of course, Republicans are still fighting to keep their deficit-ballooning unfunded tax cuts for their wealthy benefactors – to further widen the gap between the rich and poor. Why not? Their policies have already made America the LEAST upwardly mobile of all industrialized nation. Their rich benefactors are doing swimmingly while the rest of us fight for the scraps that fall from their well-fed mouths. One day, pro-transnational corporate, anti-worker, Fox News propaganda won't be loud enough to drown out the abysmal reality of the Republican destruction of the American Dream. Then their viewers, who align their interests with those of billionaires – hoping they will one day meet them for a beer – will know that they have been played… but their economic masters will have already disappeared behind the walls of their gated communities.

Keep voting Republican and slit your own throat. Time for a national strike.

[...] the federal level, last week the Washington Independent reported that in order to help pay for Medicaid and reduce costs to states, "SNAP benefits [...]

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[...] Senate Makes Further Cuts to Food Stamps to Pay for Medicaid … [...]

[...] Senate Makes Further Cuts to Food Stamps to Pay for Medicaid … [...]

[...] for their special entitlement programs. Obama and the Democrats are cutting Food Stamps to pay for Medicaid, education jobs and for Michelle Obama’s child nutrition bill. These caring Democrats are doing this at a time [...]

Everyone needs to eat. I am currently in Washington and I get tanf for my son and I. Starting next month they get cut down from 457 to 380. That is not nearly enough to pay my rent and power let alone thousands of families in my spot. If food is taken from us people will start to do horrible things. Including robbery, burglary, prostitution, and more human trafficking. The jailswill be full and who can afford to feed all these new inmates. Take Our doa from us, then feed us in jail. tell me what is the point of this……………..

In the end meant: take our food from us, then feed us in jail; tell me what is the point….

04/17/11. I just received a letter stating that the COLA (cost of living adjustment) has changed because the cost of living has went down. Get real! Anybody that has ever seen a grocery store knows that the only thing that has gone down is the package sizes. (consumerist.com) I imagine that this wiil be the year that eggs will shrink to 10 per carton and milk will start to look like a 2 liitter bottle of soda. Sure the politicians want to cut taxes to the rich. They belong to that club. It will only get worse.
Our government is spending a whopping 50 billion on 179 refueling tankers. What kind of war, on which country, could possibly justify this waste of tax payer money?

[...] Politico reports that the Senate voted 61-38 to cut off debate (meaning it can now move to final consideration) on a fiscal aid package, which includes $10 billion to save teacher jobs this fall – also known as Edujobs. This big win for Majority Leader Harry Reid had support from the two Maine Republican senators – Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins. (Ed Week’s Politics K-12, who have been the ones to watch on this story, report on the vote here.) A portion of the offsets will come from cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as food stamps) as reported by the Washington Independent. [...]

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