GOPers after putting millions more in food stamp program (Trickle Down/Deregulation disaster) now

[Bill USA]

.... the GOP vote to cut it by $39 billion. Ha-ha, -ha. Very funny! How 'bout that, they don't even want to help all those 'entrepreneurs' they said Trickle Down economics would create. What a funny joke. With each new obscenity the GOP comes up with I realize how much we need to be rid of the putrid, fecal matter of our political system called the GOP.


"according to the Department of Agriculture. In 2001, the program served 17 million people at a cost of just over $15 billion. By June of this year, there were 47.8 million people enrolled in the program, and annual costs were about $75 billion."

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/09/19/house-gop-food-stamp-cuts/2839343/

The House approved a Republican plan Thursday to cut food stamps by $39 billion during the next decade, setting up a showdown with Democrats over the program used by nearly 48 million low-income Americans.

The House voted 217-210 for the bill that cuts nearly twice as much from food stamps as a bill the House rejected in June. It is also far more than a Senate measure passed earlier this year that would trim about $4.5 billion in spending. The bill failed to draw the support of a single Democrat, many of whom have said the steep cuts would erode a key safety net depended upon by families with children, seniors, veterans and people looking for work.

Fifteen Republicans also voted against the bill.

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The bill originally passed by the House Agriculture Committee would have cut $20 billion from the program over 10 years, in large part by limiting the ability of states to automatically qualify people who are already enrolled in other anti-poverty programs. Earlier this week,[font size="3"] Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., introduced a new version of the bill that boosts the cuts to nearly $40 billion by adding stiffer requirements for many able-bodied recipients to be working or looking for work or in a job-training program. The bill does not include new funding for job training[/font].
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[DiverDave]

2. I only make 172K BOO-HOO, he should work for free.

What ever happened to the unpaid legislature?