About 100 senior citizens rally against food cuts

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GREENFIELD, Wis. - About 100 senior citizens rallied to protest a proposal by the Bush administration to eliminate a program that provides grains, cereal, cheese, canned goods and other food to the poor.

"I'd work if I could, but I can't anymore," Marie Davis, 84, said Sunday during the gathering organized by the Hunger Task Force. "Every month I pay my bills, and then whatever's left goes for food."

The rally against cuts in the Commodity Supplemental Food Program proposed for next year was held at the Greenfield City Hall, a distribution point for the program.

Sherrie Tussler, the task force's director, said 5,000 people in Milwaukee receive the stock boxes.


http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/14088213.htm

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1. I am kicking because this is one of the saddest stories

The elderly and poor are being cut off a program that allows them decent food... Screw this government.. I would rather help the poor here then kill people in Iraq.....