Republican Pushes Food Stamp Cuts, Has 0 Problem With Massive Giveaways to Big Food Industry

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September 17, 2013 |
You've got to hand it to these misanthropic wingnuts. They don't suffer from a surfeit of self-awareness, that's for sure:

At a sugar lobby symposium at a Napa resort, of all places, Rep. Mike Conaway (R-Texas) chose to champion the cuts last month, preaching of “certain moral hazards we’ve built into most social safety net programs” — like food stamps. This from a commodity chairman who had just voted to make the sugar program permanent law and begin a new 80 percent taxpayer-financed insurance premium subsidy for cotton. Who writes this stuff: Jonathan Swift?

The editorializing is from a Politico writer. Politico. That's how outrageous these comments really are.

These Republicans are calling this "welfare reform 2.0". Because when people become dependent on government assistance for food they lose the ability to work. Or something.

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http://www.alternet.org/republican-pushes-food-stamp-cuts-has-0-problem-massive-giveaways-big-food-industry