I personally know a generation of a family who have been on food stamps since the program was created...At some point people like those need to be cut off.
Food stamp should not feed you for life
Republicans Try to Cut Food Stamps as 15% of U.S. Households Face Hunger
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Mindlessly Gutting Food Stamps
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Published: September 8, 2013
Among the many scars of the recession, the most intolerable should be the pangs of chronic hunger that still assail a stunning 14.5 percent of the nation’s households, according to the Department of Agriculture’s latest survey. A decade ago, the figure was 11 percent — a group defined as regularly suffering food “insecurity,” or having 26 percent less to spend on food than households not going hungry. The survey shows that food insecurity rose with the recession and has remained stubbornly high.
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Instead of providing aid for the hungry, House Republicans want to reduce the food stamp program — the most basic part of the social safety net — with $40 billion in cuts across the next decade. A showdown vote over this cruel plan is expected this month. The House majority leader, Eric Cantor, is leading a propaganda drive that invokes reform as its cause while blaming the victims of hunger simply because the food stamp rolls had to double to nearly 48 million people in the crunch of recession.
The Cantor plan would force an estimated four to six million people to lose the food stamps that now sustain them. It would invite state governments to ratchet benefits back further because they could use savings wrenched from the pantries of the poor for various other programs, including tax cuts. The measure’s “work requirements” provide no job training funds yet mandate that able-bodied, childless adults who cannot find at least part-time employment will lose their food stamps after 90 days, even if the local unemployment rate is prohibitively high.
Even without the House conservatives’ turning of the screw, the hunger of the working poor was starkly described by Sheryl Gay Stolberg in The Times last week from Tennessee. Parents told of how they must regularly skip meals to feed their children and hunt game when the food stamp allotment falls short of monthly needs.
The falsehood that cutting food stamps is about saving government money is evident when the House plans rich increases in crop insurance subsidies for farmers. Representative Stephen Fincher of Tennessee, a Tea Party favorite who wants food stamps cut, collected nearly $3.5 million in government farm subsidies from 1999 to 2012. Yet he declared in a debate over food stamps, “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.”
The Republicans play up a few abusers of the program to mask the central fact of their plan: the tens of millions of Americans who rely on food stamps are children, the disabled, the elderly and low-wage families. For their sake, Congress should reject the Cantor proposal as the national embarrassment it plainly is.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/09/opinion/mindlessly-gutting-food-stamps.html?src=recg
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not everybody is going to "make it in America" and that is a fact. Like I said the middle class is just as uppity as the rich folk. That's cool that you know ONE generation of a family that have been on food stamps. So lets generalize everybody as frauds and losers that can't afford to put food on the table.
ADevilYouKhow
Rhyme Reason
i regret not getting snap in college
actually we are against the use of force and advocate liberty and personal freedom... vile I know
It would be gradual, with some sort of net(unemployment) always being available, as well as charity.and Libertarians are for military spending cuts....
I find the idea some one must subscribe to a certain ideology or political/economic school of thought based on the pigment of their skin beyond ignorant
Im gonna pray for you
NEWS FLASH: people are greedy.
and what everyone wants adds up to more than there is, that's the reason we need an economy in the first place.
I'm pretty sure that has a lot to do with how these bills get passed.
ADevilYouKhow
Rhyme Reason
libertarians only see green
Arabial Knight
Rolo Tomassi
Nobody that is libertarian has ever been poor. Like ACTUAL poor, not "Well I guess I have to eat ramen while earning my useless poli-sci degree" poor.
Thoughtless comments like this crack me up... As if poor people can't believe in personal responsibility, liberty, and disdain the use of force...
Black smoke and cac jokes
Your daps are mine
What you don't seem to comprehend is that people are still starving, even while getting food stamps.
ltheghost
Payin Debts.... N40
All this means is that poor and low income people are going to get shytted on. Damn those Republicans are ruthless. Even though the same poor and ignorant people vote for these soulless vampires. This is fukked up......so when are we going to bomb Syria? Can't feed the poor here but lets go bomb some middle eastern people.
SInce the main driving force behind these types of measures is to curtail the people that are gaming the system maybe it is time to give serious thought to taking welfare back to its roots.
Back in the day getting on welfare and receiving any types of food stamps or public assistance required some actual effort on the behalf of the people asking for the help and a modicum of oversight from the government. They need to bring back the welfare social worker who actually monitors their clients (welfare recipient) and helps them navigate through the down financial time that they need assistance while working to get off of assistance simultaneosly.
It should never be a situation where you get on welfare and that is the end of your contact with another human being from the government. Getting assistance from the government should come with strings in the form of mandatory training programs, mandatory job seeking goals, a timetable that one can be on the assistance, etc.
But just tossing people in the bushes and removing help for them when they are incapable of helping themselves is just cruel and also just a cheap ploy by Republicans to make it look like they are serious about balancing the budget and cutting government spending when they are really just looking for ways to distract the public from asking why corporate welfare continues unabated.
Back in the day getting on welfare and receiving any types of food stamps or public assistance required some actual effort on the behalf of the people asking for the help and a modicum of oversight from the government. They need to bring back the welfare social worker who actually monitors their clients (welfare recipient) and helps them navigate through the down financial time that they need assistance while working to get off of assistance simultaneosly.
It should never be a situation where you get on welfare and that is the end of your contact with another human being from the government. Getting assistance from the government should come with strings in the form of mandatory training programs, mandatory job seeking goals, a timetable that one can be on the assistance, etc.
But just tossing people in the bushes and removing help for them when they are incapable of helping themselves is just cruel and also just a cheap ploy by Republicans to make it look like they are serious about balancing the budget and cutting government spending when they are really just looking for ways to distract the public from asking why corporate welfare continues unabated.
godkiller
"We are the Fury"
I agree that there should be some sort of accountability and/or cutoff program for food stamps.
Cut off little $200 checks to poor people. Continue passing out millions to the rich.
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Mikael Blowpiff
#LosIngobernabrehs
let it guys talk about matters involving actual human beings brehs