Republicans Celebrate as 49 Million Americans Will Soon Have Less Food to Eat

[babylonsister]

http://www.politicususa.com/2013/10/30/republicans-celebrate-49-million-americans-food-eat.html

Republicans Celebrate as 49 Million Americans Will Soon Have Less Food to Eat
By: Rmuse
Wednesday, October, 30th, 2013, 10:25 am


Most people understand that a happy feeling because something they did provided what they needed to happen, or produced a desired result that dealt with a problem in an acceptable way, is satisfaction or gratification. It is doubtless that this coming Friday Republicans will experience exhilarating satisfaction because millions of low-income seniors, working families, children, veterans, and disabled Americans will have less food to eat and likely Republicans will enjoy a ravishing feast to celebrate their good fortune. Americans have come to expect no less from Republicans who revel in taking food from hungry people; especially if they are senior citizens and children.

After stripping food stamp funding from a still languishing farm bill and lusting to cut $40 billion of food assistance for the poor, Republicans can rejoice this coming Friday 48 million people, including more than 21 million children, will see their SNAP (food stamp) benefits reduced. The cuts are coming because the President’s fiscal stimulus of 2009 is running out and Republicans have no intention to extend the food assistance because besides killing Americans’ jobs, keeping people hungry is their favorite activity.

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Republicans have been on a tear to take nutritional assistance from poor Americans since they took control of the House after the 2010 midterms when Paul Ryan submitted, and submitted again, a Heritage Foundation-approved budget that included SNAP program cuts of $135 billion which would completely end assistance for millions of low-income families. The budget that every Republican voted for twice adversely affects low-income working families with children, seniors, veterans, and people with disabilities, because like an efficient animal extermination strategy, Republicans believe it is important to cull the weakest and most vulnerable Americans from the population first to make room for the next group to go; the middle class that is falling into poverty at an alarming rate.

There is a secondary benefit for Republicans cutting food stamp funding that often goes unnoticed but fits neatly in their well-planned assault on the people since they elected an African American President. Republicans love taking food out of the mouths of hungry children and senior citizens, but they get an extra benefit because each dollar of food stamps infuses over $1.70 of spending into the economy that creates jobs. If there is only one thing the GOP loves more than taking food from Americans it is killing jobs. It really is an elegant plan to decimate the population because killing jobs with drastic food stamp cuts will send more Americans into poverty to wonder where their family’s next meal is coming from and if Republicans have their way it will not be coming at all.

America already has the second highest percentage of children living in poverty in the developed world and Republicans are on pace to claim the number one spot by cutting food assistance to families in poverty and near poverty. Creating poverty is one area Republicans have excelled over the past six years, and they are likely dismayed that food stamps lifted a record 4 million people above the poverty line in 2012, but with the looming cuts due to take place on Friday, and House Republicans holding out for greater food stamps cuts, they can easily add 4 million Americans back to the poverty rolls that should give them a great deal of satisfaction.

Of all the things Republicans have taken from the American people, food is the one item that reveals their true inhumanity. Republicans can hardly claim their barbarism is borne of budget concerns or fiscal austerity because they always find funding to give the oil industry, agricultural corporations, religious organizations, corporations, and the defense industry subsidies exceeding the cost of fully funding food stamps. Their sole intent is creating poverty and starving low-income families, children, seniors, and disabled Americans, and on Friday they will have successfully taken a significant amount of food out of the mouths of 48 million Americans including 21 million children that will give them immeasurable satisfaction.

[Turbineguy]

1. Their Finest Hour.

Now if they can just get that many to be without healthcare, the day will be complete!

[freshwest]

2. The GOP Death Panel is in session!

[indepat]

3. Inflicting vast harm on the very fabric of society is perhaps what 'pukes do best other

than stuffing the larders of the uber-wealthy, large corporations, and the MIC and making hat by making war.

[Blue Owl]

4. May the karma come swiftly and fully

[DinahMoeHum]

5. "Woe to the downpressors. . ."

". . .they'll eat the bread of sad tomorrow. . ." - Bob Marley

[jtuck004]

6. Tell them we have reduced the national deficit, and thank them for doing their part.

That should help.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

7. Why haven't Dems --

been shouting this from the rooftops?? I'm not sure I want to know the answer to my own question...

[Contrary1]

8. Don't forget to thank the Dems that voted with them:

Senators:

Baucus
Bennet
Cardin
Carper
Coons
Donnelly
Durbin
Feinstein
Franken
Hagan
Harkin
Heinrich
Heitkamp
Johnson
Kaine
Klobuchar
Landrieu
Manchin
McCaskill
Mikulski
Nelson,
Pryor
Rockefeller
Shaheen
Stabenow
Tester
Mark Udall
Warner

[riderinthestorm]

10. +100000 nt

[woo me with science]

12. +1000 Pretending this is just a Republican problem is disingenuous in the extreme.

Republicans have long voted for these kinds of things. We expect this behavior from them.

What has changed is that we no longer have a Democratic Party committed to stopping them.

[LongTomH]

9. I was hungry and you fed me not....

“Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. 35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’

37 “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’

40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’

44 “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’

45 “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’

46 “Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”

[Scuba]

11. SNAP families may go hungry but their base is slathering over the red meat.

[corkhead]

13. The sad thing is that I know people who have had benefits cut

Who regularly vote for the very people who cut them. All the others who "get free stuff" are moochers, but somehow they are themselves exempt from their own contempt. The disconnect is mind boggling. I don't even know where to begin with these people because they have been brainwashed into believing that I am the enemy, not those that they vote into office to screw them.