OUTRAGE: House votes $844 million cut in food stamps

[Bluebear]

On a party-line vote, a Republican-run U.S. House of Representatives committee voted to cut food stamps by $844 million on Friday, just hours after a new government report showed more Americans are struggling to put food on the table.

About 300,000 Americans would lose benefits due to tighter eligibility rules for food stamps, the major U.S. antihunger program, under the House plan. The cuts would be part of $3.7 billion pared from Agriculture Department programs over five years as part of government-wide spending reductions.

Agriculture Committee chairman Bob Goodlatte defended the decision, saying only a sliver of food stamp spending was affected and, for the most part, the cuts would eliminate people not truly eligible.

"This is not a giveaway program that results in windfall profits," said North Carolina Democrat G.K. Butterfield in opposing the cuts. "That is not moral. That is not American."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051028/pl_nm/food_congress_cuts_dc&printer=1

[CottonBear]

1. This is shameful. It is un-American and immoral.

I'd like all of those congressmen who voted for the cuts to have to live on one very small meal a day for a few months and see how they like being hungry all the time.
:grr:

[cornermouse]

2. We need to start an attack to kick them out of office.

I'm serious. It is cruel and it is immoral and when people find out just what they've done, they're going to get quite angry.

[Rose Siding]

3. Outrage

:cry:

[Larissa238]

4. As it is...

Foodstamps are for people below the poverty level of about 18,000 a year. Do they think that people making $20,000 a year really dont need them???

[Rex]

5. Merry Repukmas to almost no one!

Just in time for the holidays! Who do republicans love...THE RICH!..ya say it louder. Who always gets screwed by republicans...THE POOR!..tell it like it is! Don't freeze this winter ho ho ho!

[BulletproofLandshark]

6. Goodlatte is my congressman

Fuck that greedy, hateful sonavabitch!

[gulfcoastliberal]

7. This kind of shit ought to be filibustered!

It would give the dems good press. As they should filibuster the oil-company giveaways.