Congress May Cut Food Aid, Not Farm Aid .

[dave502d]

Instead, Republican committee chairmen are looking to carve savings from nutrition and land conservation programs that are also run by the Agriculture Department. The government is projected to spend $52 billion this year on nutrition programs like food stamps, school lunches and special aid to low-income pregnant women and children. Farm subsidies will total less than half that, $24 billion.


What can you say good about a Republican?

[ultraist]

1. They already cut food stamps once!

They are starving the poor and the poverty rate has increased.

Child hunger and starvation rates in our country INCREASED last year, HOW can they justify this?

[GetTheRightVote]

2. Nothing that I can see`

:kick:

[libodem]

3. This just kills me

just when you think it can't get worse.

[Frances]

4. How Christian are those cuts?

nt

[dflprincess]

5. Not to mention prolife of them

cutting nutrition to pregnant and nursing women - now that shows a great concern for babies.

[Acryliccalico]

6. kick............n/t

:kick:

[Andy_Stephenson]

7. We gotta love all the babies...

till their born.