Reply #92: This is worse than the 50's and 60's. This is going to be worse than the 30's.

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Stonewalling aid

But as the editors of The Nation highlight, Republican politicians have made it nearly impossible to get that critical aid out to American families. They’ve demanded strict measures for these benefits, forcing Democrats to cut food stamps—that’s right, food stamps—in order to keep teachers in school and cops on the street.

Millions of families all over the country depend on food stamps. In the middle of the worst recession since the Great Depression, Republican politicians took a stand to take food from the mouths of children—and they did it while supporting a $300 billion a year in handouts for the rich.http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/08/17/are-handouts-for-billionaires-more-important-than-feeding-children/