Congressional Supercommittee focuses on cutting food stamps when they are crucial to so many:

[1776Forever]

Food stamp cuts could put food banks in a box
Published: Saturday, October 15, 2011, 5:45 PM
By David Sarasohn, The Oregonian The Oregonian

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/david_sarasohn/index.ssf/2011/10/food_stamp_cuts_could_put_food.html

...As the congressional supercommittee focuses on cutting $1.5 trillion from the long-term deficit, the $700 billion projected over the next decade for food stamps is on the table. The long-term plan from House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., takes $121 billion from the program, and turns it over to the states. Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., a power on both agriculture and hunger, is proposing sizable cuts. At the end of the week, the leaders of the House and Senate agriculture committees, which oversee food stamps, were preparing their proposal to the supercommittee.

Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, visiting Portland recently, warned The Oregonian's editorial board against taking a big budget bite out of food stamps, pointing out that most of the families helped by the program include children and/or senior citizens.

...It's also an idea that unnerves people running hunger programs at ground level.

"That would just be devastating," said Bristol. "Any cuts in food stamps just force more people to our door."

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Is there any wonder why there are outcry's in the street? There will be more hunger and more suffering if this goes through. Oh but don't make the rich pay the same tax they did during the Clinton era - they are the job creators....makes me ill!
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[Tippy]

2. Again they go after the people with so little.....mean while the speculators keep driving up prices.

[OHdem10]

3. Remind them of what is going on in Europe. They are teetering

on the Precipace of 2ond Depression. That RIGHT TURN
and SERIOUS AUSTERITY PROGRAMS are heading them backwards.

Austerity in a Depression worsens the Depression. The cuts
means more layoffs, more people not going to the stores
and Business fearing to hire.

If this cut is to take place wait out in future years after
the recovery has taken hold and people are getting jobs.,
that is one story. If the cut is in very near future, that
is dangerous.

These Members should do a better job of COMMUNICATING exactly
what they are doing. Members of Super Committee.

[TheKentuckian]

4. What recovery in the out years and if there is such a thing, won't food cost enough more

that such cuts well be hellish on those who still need assistance that is far from sufficient now?

This "deal" is stone, cold loser. The discussion needed now is the opposite one, how can we increase aid in a nation who's population is increasingly food insecure? The grocery store is a nightmare, I don't know how people with hungry and growing kids do it, even on incomes well past the food stamp eligibility threshold. People are going to die, children, the infirmed, and the old will suffer.

Plus, these mental midgets forget the stimulative impact this program has on the economy, for every dollar you cut, you are taking close to $1.80 out of the broader economy. You don't cut what is consistently stimulative, ever. Doing so contracts the economy.

God protect us from the simple and the selfish.

[cutlassmama]

5. time to plants gardens wherever possible and learn to hunt deer

I suppose when neighbors and eating each others pets it might get some attention

[jwirr]

6. If the super committee is listening to Paul Ryan then they are going

to be devastating to the all of us. IMO cutting food stamps would be the straw that broke the camel's back. Everyone who is hungry would be out in the streets. OWS would swell to unheard of proportions and everything would be brought to a stand still.

This is the single most stupid move that President Obama has made - what was he trying to accomplish?

[1776Forever]

7. Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., is proposing these cuts...

I don't know how much pull President Obama can have with this issue but I agree that he as well as Congress must understand this is pure craziness to think that this will not put a lot of people over the edge. The Occupy protesters need to approach this with urgency and know that even though some of them, if not most, want to just have change happen now it is imperative to understand that change does not come quickly and until those changes can be done the United States still has to vote to get change.

[jwirr]

8. Yes, this would be a good bill to get behind. They do not have to

join the democratic party in order to back a bill that does what they want also.

[KamaAina]

12. And another formerly sane repuke bites the dust

:(

[Tsiyu]

9. A nationwide melee in the making

There are so many people on food stamps now. The old stereotype was of low-intellect, unskilled people collecting free food. It was wrong then, even more wrong now.

But hey, if that supercommittee wants to see riots everywhere, go ahead and starve people out. Go right ahead, you greedy jackasses.

If you like pitchforks and torches and starving people massing in the streets, just do it Ryan and Lugar.

These cretins have NO idea what they're up against. Blind, ignorant fools, every one. If this goes through, they will get a very rude awakening.

[Divine Discontent]

11. it is shocking how arrogant and cold they are. they don't mind taking away from the needy every

chance they get, and it's all going to smack them in the face eventually when there's just so much suffering people pound on their office doors demanding answers. these politicians are so in the pocket of special interest they have their humanity!


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[1776Forever]

13. And per Cain it was a "liberal" court that convicted Jesus - Can they be any weirder? n/t

[indepat]

10. We can take great comfort that any recommendations of the Super-committee will be

fair and balanced and entail a shared sacrifice so fitting that the uber-wealthy and large corporations will feel its impact just as acutely as those on food stamps, social security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Now who could ask for anything more for fair is fair? :patriot:

[Arugula Latte]

14. Guillotines. We need them.

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