Silly poor people. You don't need food!

[East Coast Hustle]

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/52453957/t/death-knell-food-stamp-program/?lite&lite=obinsite#.UebcxKx5GUQ

[LMNO]

NUTRITION MAKES YOU LAZY.
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[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Well, that's gonna suck for me, and everyone else trying to raise kids while in college.

[Doktor Howl]

"Extraneous".

How revolting.

[Cain]

Let them eat proverbs about bootstraps.

[Doktor Howl]

Most interesting part is, the people that support this shit ("taxed enough already") are also on food stamps.  Something to the order of 1/3rd of Americans are on some form of nutritional supplement assistance.  100 million, more or less.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Interesting take on the move as a political strategy: http://news.yahoo.com/why-separate-vote-food-stamps-bad-idea-house-194045852.html

[Junkenstein]

The White House has threatened a veto of the House bill. It will now proceed to conference committee, where it will be merged with a Senate farm bill that includes some $4 billion in food stamp cuts.

$4 Billion is a lot of food.

What the quote about civilisations and meals away from starvation? Anyone? Food riots? Rome? Anyone?

I'm sure anything like that would totally not lead to increased funding for a militarised police force. No way.

[Left]

Most interesting part is, the people that support this shit ("taxed enough already") are also on food stamps.  Something to the order of 1/3rd of Americans are on some form of nutritional supplement assistance.  100 million, more or less.

Wow, didn't realize it was that many.
But I foresee now buying my neighbors food more often.

As far as the whole agricultural bill issue:
http://grist.org/article/food-2010-09-21-op-ed-corn-subsidies-make-unhealthy-food-choices/

One important thing for consumers to note is that in 2009, $15.4 billion in subsidies were lavished on the growers of corn, cotton, rice, wheat, and soybeans. In that same year, fruits, vegetables, and organics received only $825 million in support from the federal government. And that money doesn't go directly into fruit and vegetable growers' pockets, but mostly goes toward procurement for schools, research and market promotion programs.

Junk food is made cheaper, and it ought to be the other way around, we should make it cheaper to eat well as a government policy.

[Pergamos]

This is also going to suck for grocery stores.  food stamps don't just help hungry poor people, they also help the people hungry poor people buy food from.

[Doktor Howl]

Yeah, well, Kroger can wait until I'm done feeling bad for hungry people.

[Salty]

The White House has threatened a veto of the House bill. It will now proceed to conference committee, where it will be merged with a Senate farm bill that includes some $4 billion in food stamp cuts.

$4 Billion is a lot of food.

What the quote about civilisations and meals away from starvation? Anyone? Food riots? Rome? Anyone?

I'm sure anything like that would totally not lead to increased funding for a militarised police force. No way.

Or prison quotas!  Poppycock.

[Salty]

I mean, I'm sure these hungry broken people with no assistence from the society that feeds on them won't just go STEALING and committing other crimes to feed themselves. This will compel then to bootstrap their way to a sandwich.

I am really starting to hate America. I hate that we are right.

[Doktor Howl]

I mean, I'm sure these hungry broken people with no assistence from the society that feeds on them won't just go STEALING and committing other crimes to feed themselves. This will compel then to bootstrap their way to a sandwich.

I am really starting to hate America. I hate that we are right.

What's funny is, these assholes only have about 9% support.  It's like watching King Stephen and Empress Maud strip England bare in a family fight, to no fucking purpose other than to strip it bare.

[Freeky]

I mean, I'm sure these hungry broken people with no assistence from the society that feeds on them won't just go STEALING and committing other crimes to feed themselves. This will compel then to bootstrap their way to a sandwich.

I am really starting to hate America. I hate that we are right.

This would never, ever occur to anyone, ever!