Sociopathic Republicans: Starving Kids to Feed Monsanto
Feast and Famine in House Farm Bill
House Leadership Fund New Agribusiness Subsidy by Slashing Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
The Republican leadership in the House of Representatives is putting their version of the Farm Bill up for a vote this week in the House Agriculture Committee. The bill provides record levels of spendingan eye-popping $9.5 billion over 10 yearsfor an entirely new agribusiness subsidy under the guise of crop insurance. The bill finally ends the antiquated and highly suspect crop subsidies to help pay for the massive new crop insurance program, yet the bill slashes $16 billion from one of the most effective antipoverty programs in our nation, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, to fund the new insurance spending.
A cut of this magnitude means that at least 2 million families will lose access to the program. All told, about 1 billion fewer meals will be available to low-income families each yearmeals that are a bargain for taxpayers at about a $1.60 a mealas well as a basic responsibility for our society.
With nearly 45 million Americans relying on this program85 percent of whom are living on incomes below the federal poverty line of $23,350 for a family of fourthis cut is a cruel move that deprives our most needy fellow citizens of the most basic hand up to better themselves and their families. Whats more, cuts of this magnitude could have real consequences for our nascent economic recovery, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which calculates that each dollar of supplemental nutrition assistance benefits create $1.79 in increased economic activity.
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2012/07/farm_bill.html
.......... With what we know they are doing, and what we see them doing, and what we know they want to do,
quite simply anyone who votes for a Republican at this point is simply a sociopath. I dont know how much clearer it can get-
here they are pushing a bill that sends billions in corporate welfare to companies that dont need it (and probably dont pay taxes, either), and doing it on the backs of the poor.
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