Senate Rejects Effort To Cut Food Stamp Program

[Purveyor]

Source: Associated Press

The Senate has turned back an effort by Kentucky Republican Rand Paul to drastically cut food stamp spending and replace the food aid program with block grants to the states.

The 65-33 vote to defeat the Paul amendment was part of debate on a five-year, half-trillion-dollar farm and food bill.

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The farm bill would reduce food stamp spending by $4 billion over the next decade by eliminating abuses. Paul’s amendment would have saved $322 billion over the same period by capping spending at $45 billion a year and turning over funding decisions to the states.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/06/13/national/w100347D06.DTL

[HowHasItComeToThis]

1. AYN RAND WOULD BE PROUD

RAND, YOU ARE A JOKE. GO BACK TO YOUR SLOP STATE

[Kablooie]

16. Was he named after her, ya think?

[azurnoir]

2. shows there's a bit of decency left in our government at least the Democrat controled part

[freshwest]

3. +1. We need to increase their numbers. The Randians won't stop, either.

[azurnoir]

4. agreed we need to take back the House n/t

[LiberalAndProud]

5. shows what the Senate stakes are

We need to keep the Senate and regain the house, else the presidential election will be moot.

[cstanleytech]

6. We also need to gain ground at the state level to.

If we dont then the republicans will be able to gerrymander the districts more and more until there isnt a democrat left in office.

[freshwest]

9. Agreed. This is not an executive dictatorship some think we have.

[Zoeisright]

7. Hungry, homeless sick children roaming the streets.

That's the Paul version of Amerikkka.

[TalkingDog]

10. Rand Paul can go DIAF.

I worked in Eastern KY for a year; one of the most impoverished areas in the country. We called it Botswana Ya'll and wondered if we were violating the Prime Directive by being there.

People there were literally living in a 3rd world country.

[coalition_unwilling]

13. Um, grammar Nazi here. They were 'figuratively' living in a 3rd world country, but

'literally' living in a first-world country (unless eastern KY is no longer part of the United State , a discrepancy which arguably renders the pathos all the more intense.

[TalkingDog]

18. I started to put 3rd world county... but figured nobody would get the "joke".

*sigh*

[chknltl]

11. Isn't alex jones a supporter of the pauls?

My kids are 'paulites' because of alex jones... I am left to wonder (because I refuse to even look) what their source of info, alex jones has to say about this legislation sponsored by rand paul being defeated. This should make for an interesting bit of conversation with my kids later today....

[Great Caesars Ghost]

12. If they turn politically hopeless......

Cut all ties.

[chknltl]

17. Sadly...because of developments beyond my control....

....they may come to their senses on their own. One can always hope huh?

[Mojorabbit]

14. Is there really 4 billion worth of abuse of the system?

and I wonder where that number came from.

[Rain Mcloud]

15. Do these People never tire

of being wrong?
On every issue?
Ever?
Yo,Ayn Rand Paul,Where are the Jobs?