Reply #102: Why not make the increase permanent, since the depression for those at the bottom

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isn't going to be over magically in 2014. Take the money needed from the bloated subsidies of the many corporations we all support through the welfare program we provide them with our tax dollars. What is it about hitting the poor? Do you think families are not going to need that extra $59.00 a month in 2014 after 3 and a half years of food price increases and a lingering deep recession.

Where are we going to come up with 350,000 jobs a month starting now to bring unemployment down, end the recession and the increased need for food stamps by 2014? Anyone?

According to your link the increase in food stamps is 7.8 billion divided by 10 years but in 2014 a much needed increase in food stamps will die and hit the program with a 12 billion decrease, in one year. Pardon me if I don't get the pom poms out.
Do democrats who support this kind of draconian cut think the poor put upon millionaire ceo's risk going hungry if we take the 12 billion from their government handouts?

That increase should be open ended. The job situation isn't supposed to improve for a decade. The fact that democrats look to food stamps first for dollars is pathetic. They know full well we are in a permanent ratcheting back of the economy, there is no going back to the craziness of the mid 2000's. We will need this food stamp increase for the foreseeable future and if cutting the meager food budget of the poor during an economic downturn is all the democrats can come up with to balance expenditures, given the massive inequity between rich and poor in this country, then all the middle class folks with jobs better hold on tight. Your social security is next.