Need your help DU -- Stop the Hunger Games. Stop GIANT cuts in SNAP today!!

[nashville_brook]

I know it's hard to believe but once again, Congress is trying to cut food assistance. Today I'm asking you to make a QUICK call to voice your opposition to this. This is so important -- your Reps need to hear from your on this.

Call toll-free: 866-456-8824 --> listen to the recorded message and enter your zip code. You'll be connected right to your Rep's office. Let them know you're a constituent; tell them your name and the town you are calling from.

Tell them:

As your constituent, I urge you to vote against the extreme nutrition-only farm bill which would cut $40 billion from SNAP and deny assistance to 4-6 million poor people. This bill would be devastating to struggling Americans; by making more people hungry, it goes against many years of bipartisan support.

What's bad about this bill?

-- It would deny food to the poorest of the poor: millions of poor, jobless adults without children whose income averages only about one-fifth of the poverty line - about $2,500 a year (can you imagine living on $2,500 a year? with no food assistance?!!)

-- It would end benefits for a WHOLE FAMILY if a parent is not working at least 20 hours per week, even if her/his child is only one year old -- this is simply cruel with our high unemployment.

-- LASTLY, the bill REWARDS states for cutting off families - the state gets 50 percent of the reduced costs. Hundreds of thousands of children will lose free school meals.

That is all -- Please, no Hunger Games for America. We apparently have money to fight wars. Let's also take care of our people.

[leftstreet]

1. Unless the WH is launching missile strikes on SNAP

Not many will care

DURec all the same

[nashville_brook]

23. great example of how war, and war debate obscures our own interests

for those weeks we spend on Syria, we lost precious time as Congress getting back to DC from recess. that's a critical time to frame priorities for the session that was lost to kabuki theater.

but!

back to work, now!

[Mnemosyne]

2. Everyone needs to be doing this NOW! Nt

[nashville_brook]

4. thank you! this is flying under the radar...so important that we make some noise!!

[Mnemosyne]

15. I will call every day if need be to stop this bullshit.

I wish we could force them to feed their children on what they give others and see how long before it would be raised.

[nashville_brook]

22. when i was a kid, food stamps saved us - the cruelty involved in denying this money is unthinkable

the family had been middle class until my father had a heart attack and to retire.

everyone's story is different, but we all share the experience of being very fragile economically. this little bit of help kept us "okay" enough to get over the hump. without it we would have sunk.

[Lifelong Protester]

3. K &R for visibility

Can't call now, I am at the doctor's office . Will call later (I am posting so I can find you again.)

[nashville_brook]

5. awesome! takes just a sec...emails work too. or, do both!

this call is super convenient though b/c it patches you right thru to the your Rep.

[L0oniX]

6. They want to kill us. If they had their way the 1% would be the only people in the USA...

the rest of us would be hidden away in some camp to die of starvation. Hmmm where have I seen that before?

[nashville_brook]

9. precisely. love this graphic...it so captures that!

[G_j]

7. done

thanks!

[Daniel537]

8. k&r

Unfortunately the program is set for automatic cuts in November due to an expiring provision in the Stimulus bill. So in essence the GOP wants to let that expansion lapse and cut even more from family dinner tables. Pure Assholes.

[nashville_brook]

10. good point -- the program has already been cut to the gills.

the really ugly thing here is that they're incentivizing states to cut more people off -- this is going to put a huge burden on cities and municipalities to care for hungry people who're already on the streets.

[Daniel537]

11. And on Food Pantries which are already serving record numbers of people.

The SNAP program desperately needs to be expanded, but unless we get a Democratic House back in congress, that isn't even in the cards.

[nashville_brook]

18. i think there's a bipartisan majority to stop this if we can push the right buttons

also, since it's stopping a bad bill -- that's easier than putting forward a good one when we're in the minority.

[DirkGently]

12. KNR!

[totodeinhere]

13. I called the number but after I entered my zip code it said that it could not process my entry.

I tried two more times and had the same result. I hope this means that they are getting so many calls that their system is being overloaded. So anyway I looked up my rep's phone number and called his office manually. It's not that it will do any good because he is a Teapartier, but at least I tried. I must say though that the staff member I talked to was polite.

[nashville_brook]

17. it might actually mean that -- i used the number without a problem on an iPhone

about two hours ago.

also wondering if it's a digital connection problem.

YAY! and thank you for going the extra distance! i find congressional aides to always be amazingly polite and helpful. even in the offices you wouldn't expect.

[99th_Monkey]

14. We not only "have money for wars", also to bail out banks, to massively spy on US citizens

Keep SNAP, dump NSA and stop endless ME wars.

[nashville_brook]

20. absolutely! money is no object for so much...

except for us, who are paying their bills.

need i say more?

[AllyCat]

16. Done. Thanks for the reminder!

[Jefferson23]

19. Done.K&R

[HappyMe]

21. k&r

Done

[nashville_brook]

24. afternoon kickee!

[nashville_brook]

25. kicking my own thread again...visibility :)

[Cleita]

26. Another K&R

[nashville_brook]

27. thanky! :)

[scarletwoman]

28. *kick*

[Starry Messenger]

29. k&r

[nashville_brook]

30. morning kickee