Reply #251: Cuts largely negate the 2009 food stamp increase.

[Divernan]

From the CNN link above:
"Some Democrats had objected to the bill because it is funded in part by stripping $2.2 billion from the federal food stamp program. Congress also voted over the summer to take money from the program to fund legislation sending money to cash-strapped states to avoid teacher layoffs.

THE CUTS LARGELY NEGATE A SPENDING INCREASE PROVIDED TO THE FOOD STAMP PROGRAM BY THE 2009 ECONOMIC STIMULUS PLAN. Administration officials reportedly have promised anxious liberals that they will work to find ways to restore the higher funding levels."

What happens to food stamp recipients who DON'T have children in schools to provide the much touted "savings" to their weekly food expenses. Like senior citizens, the childleses unemployed, and families with pre-school toddlers and infants?

If a $2.2 billion cut is okey-dokey, why are Obama and "administration officials" promising they will try to restore the funding levels? Not that they have a chance in hell with the GOP control of the congress.