Congress Seeks to Slash Food Aid for Poor

[Kadie]

Congress Seeks to Slash Food Aid for Poor
By LIBBY QUAID, Associated Press Writer

Wednesday, October 5, 2005


(10-05) 08:09 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) --


Under orders to whittle agriculture spending by $3 billion, Republicans in Congress propose to slash food programs for the poor by $574 million and subsidies and conservation programs by $1 billion each, The Associated Press has learned.


The plan by Senate Agriculture Committee chairman Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., would reduce farmers' payments by 2.5 percent across the board, slashing spending by $1.145 billion over five years. That's half the 5 percent the Bush administration sought earlier this year.


The $574 million cut in food stamps would come from restricting access to this benefit for certain families that receive other government assistance. The restriction would shut an estimated 300,000 people out of the program.


more...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/10/05/national/w080919D83.DTL

yahoo link...
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20051005/ap_on_go_co/food_farm_programs_1

[MidwestTransplant]

1. No, they aren't screwing the poor. They are just streamlining

an inefficient program so that it can better meet the needs of the recipients.

See that's it.

[expatriot]

26. It's a program that hasn't shown results. Why keep funding a program that

hasn't shown results?

:sarcasm: x brazillion

[bballny]

2. As usual

Compassionate conservatism at it's best. Saxby is my senator and just a great guy.

[CottonBear]

4. You forgot to employ the sarcasm smiley.

:sarcasm:

Chambliss is my senator as well. :( What an evil man he is.
I hope he burns in hell for what he did to Max Cleland. :grr:

[bballny]

6. He was the guy

who made money at the lynchings sellimg food.

[0007]

24. My senator can out do your senator. He worked the shake down

racket with Jack Abramoff and Ralph Reed.

[tatertop]

27. Perfect example of who gets elected when elections are stolen

Saxby is lower than shit

[bemildred]

3. "Under orders"??

Orders from whom? Who orders Congress around?

[bballny]

7. My guess

Cheney. Can't you see him in his cold way just telling Chambliss to gut the food stamp program

[Benhurst]

5. Ah, yes. The Final Solution to the poverty problem. Wouldn't

Jesus be proud!

:sarcasm:

[rodeodance]

8. grand headline. lets send to all we know-and people we do not know.

[rodeodance]

9. as i recall Jesus sent down fishes and bread for the poor.

[Lindsay]

10. So the Congressional Repugs are waiting

for Jesus to do it again, because it's damned sure they're not gonna.

[Debi]

17. Yeah, but Uncle Dick hasn't figured out how to perform any

miracles that don't include Halliburton 'disappearing' billions of dollars.

(Just a slight of hand I tell ya......)

[mom cat]

30. And look at what the power structure did to that dude.

[meganmonkey]

11. Hmmm...sounds like job security for me

since i work for a nonprofit hunger relief agency.

Assuming everyone doesn't get too poor to donate to us anymore...

:(

[bleedingheart]

12. well the poor republicans can eat their tasty morality

:sarcasm:

[bleedingheart]

13. dupe

[bleedingheart]

14. dupe

hit the button too many times...

[ClayZ]

15. self delete ooops

sorry

[MadHound]

16. Hey, a Bushco two-fer!

Starve the poor to death, and help drive the last vestiges of the family farmers out of busniness.

[Judi Lynn]

18. If the MEpublicans can drive the very poor to desperate measures

like stealing to get food "to put on their families," they will be able to harvest a whole new segment of the population to feed into the privitized prison system to get busy on prison industrial work. It's a win-win for MEpublicans.

[Cha]

19. Oh, but the bushwa can SPEND

6 billion $$$ a month or whatever it is to pour down Iraq's throat and lose a BILLION $$$ in Iraq that no one can find?!!

They need to be gutted, metaphorically speaking, of course.

[Megahurtz]

20. 300,000 more poor forced on the streets???

What is wrong with these people???

They are so self-centered and selfish behond words!!!:banghead:

[cantstandbush]

21. Please don't turn my "red" states "blue."

Is that a new song title or what?

[Whoa_Nelly]

22. Hope someone can this news out to the Katrina survivors!

Those who were already below the poverty line and depending on food stamp programs are about to get fucked again..as if Katrina and the lack of response by the Bush Gang wasn't enough...

Bush and the GOP hate people who are what they consider an embarrassment to our nation; Having a Third World population within our borders is something that should just be swept under the rug. :sarcasm:

I hate Bush and the GOP for not caring about ALL of its citizens. :mad:

[MissMarple]

23. A Modest Proposal...Let them eat children

A few pertinent observations about Swift from the English Department. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

"The conditions Swift describes in "A Modest Proposal" are not hyperbole. Only his Projector's solution exaggerates, and perhaps only a little. The situation continued to deteriorate for another 150 years, during which English landlords exported from Ireland the grain and livestock Irish tenant farmers raised, while the farmers increasingly had to live on a limited range of vegetables, mainly potatoes. In 1845, a previously unknown fungus named Phytophthora infestans attacked the potato crop. For the first two years of the great famine, while England continued to export most other edible crops from Ireland to England, the Irish starved, and even after grain started to flow back into the land, people continued to die of starvation and opportunistic diseases which afflict the malnourished. Those who could not pay rent with crops which would not grow were evicted from their homes, caught cholera, typhus, and typhoid fever in the workhouses, were shipped to Australia, Canada and America by the hundreds of thousands only to die on the ships or shortly after reaching land. An Irish population of eight to nine million souls was reduced to between five and six million. Swift tried to tell them what would happen. Which satirists are we ignoring, to our peril, today? "


http://faculty.goucher.edu/eng211/jonathan_swift.htm

[tatertop]

28. Yes, it's happening here

[MidwestTransplant]

25. Pass the Ketchup!

[barb162]

29. This winter is going to get very interesting

Natural gas prices up 50-70%, gasoline prices we all know about, interest rates going up which means the adjustable rate mortgages will be hurting more people, more and more layoffs being noticed, food aid probably disappearing....

[jbnow]

38. That's it

I said the same just about no plans for extra heating assistance this year. Now add this to it!

[TacticalPeek]

31. Congress Seeks to Slash Food Aid for Poor, Conservation

Congress Seeks to Slash Food Aid for Poor, Conservation
Skip directly to the full story.

By Libby Quaid Associated Press Writer

Published: Oct 5, 2005


WASHINGTON (AP) - Under orders to cut agriculture spending by $3 billion, Republicans in Congress have proposed reducing food programs for the poor by $574 million and conservation programs by $1 billion, The Associated Press has learned.

The proposal by the chairman of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee, Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., also would cut payments to farmers by 2.5 percent across the board.

The plan faces hostility from congressional Democrats and other critics who say the cuts would hurt food stamps and conservation programs.

Payments to farmers would fall by $1.145 billion over five years. But that is considerably less severe than what President Bush had proposed. Bush had sought a 5 percent reduction in payments, plus a far-reaching plan for capping payments that would cut billions more dollars from subsidies collected by large farm operations.


more
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB427SHGEE.html

[gulfcoastliberal]

32. Those would be the family farmers being devastated by the estate tax?

Why do Republicans hate America? Is it their obediance to, as Jon Stewart said tonight, our new Chinese "overlords"?

Edit: title = :sarcasm:

[aquart]

33. Poor people do not need food.

Not as much as the rich need SUVs.

[Charlie Brown]

34. We've been warning the red-state farmers about this for generations

Maybe when they lose the safety net and get bought out, they'll finally realize the Republicans are not their friends.

[Scooter24]

35. But alas...

gays can't marry...

Everything else I suppose is irrelevant :sarcasm:

:D

[mom cat]

36. Are the Dems willing to make this a goal line stand..or they just

going to fold them and run like they did with Roberts?

[Erika]

37. Chambliss the GOP elitist who laughed at Clelland

Now he's hurting the poor. He really gets into Sadism. Hurt the war-injured and poor.

[ngGale]

39. Okay....

they are pushing us to the brink...:grr:

[The_Casual_Observer]

40. Those "conservative" bastards try and shit themselves that you can

simply ignore the old, sick and poor and everything will be great. One of those rw southern congressmen guys was on NPR last night advocating the elimination of Medicare and Social Security, claiming that the country would be better off if everybody would simply take responsibility for themselves.

Essentially, that myopic dobson sounding twit bastard was advocating the violent overthrow of the government by the underclass.

[saigon68]

41. I heard that

Yes it will be "SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST" sorry Halliburton

[Pepper32]

43. That's right! (eom)

[jillan]

42. I don't UNDERSTAND!

What am I missing here?

They said no to helping the poor with their heating bills.

Said no to better healthcare for our vets.

Now this?:grr: ?:grr: ?:grr: ?

Enjoy your tax cuts - you assholes!

[Peter Frank]

44. HM's (Have Mores) vs. the HN's (Have Nots)...

I Guess the Have Nots may need to bite down even harder on the bullet of poverty in order to help pay for the extreme double dipped tax cuts for HM's.

The radicals in D.C. must (or should) be embarrassed by their old agendas coming into fruition now. Look for the champions of the HM's to back away from proposed cuts (only to save face for the '06 & '08 elections).

But make no mistake -- the HM's are relentless in having their way.

hence the signiture...

[NightOwwl]

45. Jesus would be so proud.

:banghead:

[Peter Frank]

46. Jesus Said That...

...(paraphrasing) the poor will be with us always.

I'm guessing that we shouldn't consciously increase the numbers.

[Disturbed]

47. I wonder how many dems will vote for this.

These RW assholes are rich sociopaths.