House votes to cut $700 mln in food stamps

[dutchdemocrat]

Disgusting. Nothing more to say.

House votes to cut $700 mln in food stamps


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Friday to cut $700 million from the food stamp program, despite objections from antihunger groups complaining that estimates show some 235,000 people would lose benefits.

The House bill, which also trimmed other social programs for the poor in an effort to reduce federal spending by $50 billion, was narrowly approved 217-215. House and Senate negotiators now must write a final, compromise version of legislation to pare federal spending over five years. The Senate did not touch food stamps in its version of a $35 billion budget-cutting bill.

Food stamps, the major U.S. antihunger program, help poor people buy food. Some 25.8 million Americans received food stamps in a program run by the U.S. Agriculture Department. Senate Agriculture Committee chairman Saxby Chambliss said through a spokesman that he was aiming for "zero" cuts in food stamps during talks with the House. As a committee chairman, the Georgia Republican would be a senior negotiator.

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http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?id=2005111818110002569401&dt=20051118181100&w=RTR&coview=

[datasuspect]

1. it'll help the poor to build "personal responsibility"

joking.


ever been to a corporate/government function? these schmucks eat pretty damn good. for FREE.


EAT THE RICH!

[GreenPartyVoter]

11. I hope that the cretins have nightmares everynight of being

a hungry child with nowhere to turn for food.

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[dutchdemocrat]

2. Congress Helps Self to $3,100 Pay Raise

Congress Helps Self to $3,100 Pay Raise

By DAVID ESPO
The Associated Press
Friday, November 18, 2005; 11:44 PM

WASHINGTON -- The Republican-controlled Congress helped itself to a $3,100 pay raise on Friday, then postponed work on bills to curb spending on social programs and cut taxes in favor of a two-week vacation.

In the final hours of a tumultuous week in the Capitol, Democrats erupted in fury when House GOP leaders maneuvered toward a politically-charged vote _ and swift rejection _ of one war critic's call for the withdrawal of troops from Iraq. "You guys are pathetic, pathetic," Massachusetts Rep. Martin Meehan yelled across a noisy hall at Republicans.

On another major issue, a renewal of the Patriot Act remained in limbo as an unlikely coalition of liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans sought curbs on the powers given law enforcement in the troubled first days after the 2001 terrorist attacks.

Both the House and Senate were in session after midnight Thursday, working on the tax and deficit-cutting bills at the heart of the GOP agenda, before returning to work a few hours later.

"What it does is start to turn down the escalating costs ... for our children and our grandchildren. One of the things that we cannot leave to that next generation is a huge deficit that they can't afford," House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., said after enactment of a $50 billion deficit-reduction bill.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/18/AR2005111802165_pf.html

[Deja Q]

3. It also cuts into federal student loan programs too...

So when * tells us all to get educated...

Look for my techrepublic article in my sig line.

[acmavm]

4. WE THE PEOPLE should be deciding if they deserve a 'raise' or not.

AND I SAY NOT!

[JohnnyRingo]

5. The republican dream of cuts:

Cut aid for the poor
Cut taxes for the wealthy

Cut benefits for veterans
Cut regulations for defense contractors.

"Mission Accomplished"

[liberal N proud]

6. When will this regime called a government be overthrown?

They are going to push the people and the world far enough and they will turn on them and it will be a Civil War.
The only question is how far does it have to go before the American people get hungary enough, how many young people must die, how many freedoms must we lose before we take back America?
It is going to happen, the question is how long before the first strike takes place?

[butterfly77]

13. SOONER THAN WE MAY THINK

[kevinmc]

7. Deleted- Duplicate

[Gloria]

8. The word "trimmed" sounds so reserved--how about using "butchered"

instead....

[DiverDave]

9. Hungry?, go to school!

Oh wait, they cut that too.
Hungry children, the breeding ground of revolution.

[RB TexLa]

10. And for something totally different

Has anyone heard from the food companies that just took a collective $700M hit? I wonder what they think of the rebukes and what they now have to do to try to keep their profits where the "godly" analysts say they should be. I wonder how they feel. As well as the farmers who provide the actual food. Oh forgot their subsidiaries are cut in this too, hit on both ends. Guess they can as B*sh likes to say "farm to the market." Would be nice if they could, if the they could chose what crop sells for the best return and then of course B*sh could suspend the law of inelastic demand and we could contrary to biological realities consume an unlimited supply of which crop provides them with the most profit.

[ninkasi]

12. Their votes condemn them

The ones who voted to cut food stamps, and children's lunches, also voted themselves a nice, fat raise. Of course, don't even THINK about raising the wealthy's taxes to what they were before the moron took office.

Their votes define them as heartless, greedy, corrupt cowards, and I hope that they appreciate the karmic lessons they have earned.

[Lex]

14. kick

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