SNAP gets cuts and Wholesale Prices on Food goes up.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

First we have this going one with SNAP. http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022987698

I started this conversation, http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022962403

PLEASE WATCH and READ the transcript @ http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/government_programs/jan-june13/foodstamps_06-06.html

Now, we have this.

"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."

Read more: http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/science/article/Senate-passes-half-trillion-dollar-farm-bill-4591407.php#ixzz2VrVyS1gb

And as stated, the House bill has BIGGER cuts.

Now a report has come out about Wholesale prices on such things as food.

U.S. Wholesale Prices Rise More Than Forecast on Fuel, Food
By Jeanna Smialek - Jun 14, 2013 5:43 AM MT

Wholesale prices in the U.S. climbed in May for the first time in three months, reflecting an increase in fuel and food prices that failed to filter through to other goods.

The producer-price index rose 0.5 percent after falling 0.7 percent in April, which was the biggest drop in more than three years, according to a Labor Department report released today in Washington. The median estimate in a Bloomberg survey of 76 economists projected the index would gain 0.1 percent. So-called core wholesale inflation, which excludes often-volatile food and energy prices, increased 0.1 percent.

The recession in Europe and slowing growth in emerging markets such as China may continue to restrain commodity costs, damping global inflation. The lack of price pressures means Federal Reserve policy makers may continue to consider the possibility that the economy needs additional stimulus to spur the expansion.

“There’s just a lack of any inflationary pressures across the economy,” said Stuart Hoffman, chief economist at PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who correctly forecast the gain in producer prices. “From the Fed’s point of view, I think that the fact that it’s a bit higher than expected doesn’t in any way change the view that inflation is still quite low, quite tame.”

Read more @ http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-14/wholesale-prices-in-u-s-climb-more-than-forecast-on-fuel-food.html

[Newest Reality]

1. Is there no concern about

starving the surplus population in order to move forward without the added weight of useless eaters?

Right now, from stats I've come across, about 10-12% of us here in the US are, (capitalistically speaking) unnecessary. In other words, about 30,000 people could be considered economically expendable. If we stay on this "money over people" route where we wave the banner of the wealthy, then their is a grim cloud of starvation and death ahead and scores of desperate people, including parents who have children to feed.

Yeah, let's cut the lead weights off this Wall St. world and keep forging ahead into the dead of night in the middle of Winter just to keep a light burning for those with privilege.

That's my bottom-line on this whole debacle. We must feed the hungry or we all pay a price for that, pure and simple. The cost to avoid this necessity is very, very high on every level.

[snappyturtle]

2. "The cost to avoid this necessity is very, very high on every level."

The priviledged pwers that be do not care. They want to keep every last penny of their wealth. imho

[love_katz]

3. Recommended read:

Book: The Famine Plot by Tim Pat Coogan

Subtitle: England's Role In Ireland's Greatest Tragedy.

A long time back, another DUer recommended this book. The author quotes a man who was contemporary of the potato famine times, who said," God sent the potato blight, but the English caused the Famine."

What does this have to do with our current situation? Everything...the author makes a clear case for manipulation of public opinion towards the Irish poor through the control of the media outlets of the day (the newspapers).

The Whig party, whose attitudes and policies towards Ireland's poor are echoed by today's Republican and Tea Party members, deliberately manipulated the press articles to accuse the poor of being lazy and entitled, etc. What was kept out of the papers was how Whig politics and policies were actually responsible for the famine. (Ireland was exporting food to support wealthy absentee landlords, instead of feeding the starving).

The important parts of the book are about the deliberate manipulation of public opinion through spreading lies and propaganda through the press, and the horrid attitudes of the rich and how their choices led to mass starvation in Ireland.

The past still echoes in our present times.

I was able to check out this book from our local public library.

It is worth the read, if you can find the time.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. Thank you for that rec..sounds like a book worth reading.

Interestingly, the pattern of starving populations is quite common, varying only by details and who to blame.
and never never admitted to until at least 50 years after the fact.

[love_katz]

6. I am not surprised...

the uber wealthy seem to specialize in viciousness.

I keep hoping that the idiots who vote for them will wake up.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

5. kick.