The bill to restore some teacher jobs comes at a cost

[Stinky The Clown]

There will be some closed loopholes on the wealthy's taxes.

Food stamps will be cut.

The DoD remains untouched. Not cutback on war money.






Wait . . . . !

They cut food stamps?

Are you kidding me?

Food stamps?

Nice.

Real smooth. Way to pander to repubicans.

I sweartagawd . . . . . nothing surprises me.

[asdjrocky]

1. Who needs poor people?

Certainly not this administration.

[Yupster]

26. Food stamps will not be cut

If the money is needed it will be restored.

This is one of those scams where they say they're cutting something three years from now which will never be cut.

The savings in medicare reimbursements to doctors has been saving the budget billions every year excepot that every year they restore the money calling it the doctor fix.

Meanwhile the money was long spent that the doctor cut was offsetting.

It's just a way for congress to say something is paid for when it's not.

[asdjrocky]

27. So they are just using the poor people for political gain?

[FrenchieCat]

28. Wow!

piece of work if I ever saw one.

[asdjrocky]

29. Thank you!

[villager]

2. But didn't you hear? Some on DU have adopted the Reagan playbook: "Scammers"

is one of the new words for people needing food aid...

[Starry Messenger]

30. Somebody called them scammers??!

x( Thank the internet gods for my ignore list. The Reagan Democrats are back in the fold now I see.

[LWolf]

3. Obey wanted them to get the funds from Arne's RTTT Billions.

Obama threatened to veto anything that cut the incentives for privatization and union-busting.

So...food stamps?

The priorities are pretty damned clear.

[RandomThoughts]

4. Heres the thing.

You hear contradictory stories in the media, figure it is noise to gauge things mostly.

But the point is you have to support ideas, since people say they support things sometimes and don't.

[TheBigotBasher]

5. The bill comes on the expectation that the 2012 budget

for food stamps will not need to be as high as the 2010 budget fr food stamps and therefore applies the savings to the current expenditure. Seems a reasonable assumption when considering long term costs.

[Stinky The Clown]

11. Can you make that case? Really? Can you?

New jobs will lift up the poor?

Greater social services money will help them?

Falling food prices will make their meager crumbs go farther?

I know ...... let's revise downward the government standards from a healthy diet and daily caloric intake. That'll do it, sure, huh?

[TheBigotBasher]

15. If there are more people in work

there will be fewer people that need food stamps.

[Stinky The Clown]

24. Do you think there will be substantially fewer unemployed in a year?

Really? Do you think that?

[TheKentuckian]

21. What indication do you have that there will be substantially

less need in two years? Fucking jack apple shit is what you got, is what.

That and the program honestly needs more resources. The food banks are overwhelmed and many thousands each week are without any money at all as their unemployment runs out.

[SargeUNN]

6. Let's see that means

since I get $80 a month which means I have to budget for just over $2 a day for meals/day that I am living too high on the hog. Yeah it sucks.

[Monique1]

10. Let's forget about food stamps what is important

at DU is Gibbs being ticked with the left. Forget about the hungry, forget any problems but just don't mess with us lefties. That is the problem here today. Guess everyone here has a fridge and freezer full of food. Just don't mess with me being a leftie :sarcasm:

[activa8tr]

13. I hear dog and cat food is on sale at Walmart... try there..NOT!!!

I am amazed that any cuts in Food Stamps is in this bill... show me where.

[SargeUNN]

16. shows how much you know about food stamps

food stamps isn't allowed to pay for dog and cat food.

[activa8tr]

31. Hell I didn't know that, but I was being funny....you missed that!

So much you miss.

[Monique1]

18. You eat it activa8tr

than come back and tell us how delicious it is.

[Hawkeye-X]

32. Damn. 80 dollars a month?

So you budget yourself ramen noodles by the assload?

[havocmom]

7. Hungry kids don't do well in school. This lets somebody blame teachers

Can they go any lower? Creating a situation that is lose/lose when it simply is not necessary.

[RoseMead]

8. I knew this was coming, but it's still really disappointing

And, for people like myself who actually receive food stamps, it's scary.

I'm glad an effort was made to save teacher jobs. I'm not unwilling to sacrifice to make that happen. I just want to know why the poor are the only ones making a sacrifice in this case. Because I'm pretty sure the people on food stamps are going to suffer from those cuts a lot more than the wealthy who lose a few tax loopholes.

[Missy Vixen]

9. One sixth of the country is on food stamps right now.

One-sixth. Fifty million people.

It will be interesting to explain to hungry families why it was so important to cut the food stamp program right now.

:eyes:

[Recursion]

12. It's not cut for 3 more years

It's the same BS game they always play: make cuts they pretend they'll stick with "later", but still count them as offsets.

[Monique1]

19. You don't know our governor

She has been cutting food stamps for some time

[Monique1]

14. No more phone calls for me I am going straight to

my Congressmen and Senators office. Enough of this crap. I am pissed. I did this before and I will do it again.

They want to take vacation to meet their constituents, they will have a visit than.

[Monique1]

17. I also would like the Senators and Congressmen live on beans and rice for

a month and see how they like it. They need to give up their steaks and fancy foods and join those who live on almost nothing. Sure they will! Oh not a month, I can do that but month after month? How about a year.

[Monique1]

20. We all should send dog and cat food to our Senators and Congresspeople

but they will not eat it. They would probably say that our dogs and cats loved the food. The fools!

[KakistocracyHater]

22. I know THAT REALLY UPSETS ME

on the backs of the most vulnerable- we need to make non-denominational food pantrys, a devilish Humanist food giveaway. I say you can include frozen veggies, & please more than just cranberry sauce & tomato soup.

[Stinky The Clown]

25. Ketchup is a vegetable

[KakistocracyHater]

33. reaganite

I hope it's:sarcasm:

[Stinky The Clown]

34. It was

In the extreme

[madfloridian]

23. Cut by 12 billion.

Priorities out of order. Guns over butter.