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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-13-06 03:42 PM
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7. The freepers are so fucking stupid, greedy and cold hearted
it makes one wonder if they're indeed human.

Those receiving the boxes cannot earn more than $1,037 a month, and there is a waiting list of those who are eligible for the program and want to participate.

It's not likely that anyone will be added to the list anytime soon, she said.

"I've been told that we have to eliminate 700 people by June," said Tussler. "I don't know how we're going to do it."

The Commodity Supplemental Food Program is one of 141 federal initiatives that would be eliminated under Bush's budget proposal.

The program, run by the Agriculture Department and dating back to 1968, cost about $111 million this fiscal year,

The Bush administration says the program duplicates other services for the poor, like food stamps and the Women, Infants and Children program.
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