Soledad Grills Sen Jeff Sessions on Cutting FOOD Stamps {WHY Food Stamps??}
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This following article appeared at Huffingtonpost.com. I usually don’t post from them because we have different readers, but this article just stroked a nerve. The article at the Huffingtonpost Was well written and the CNN video below makes the story better than I can tell it. Besides I get full of anger when of all the things in which the government throws the money at that anybody would consider hitting the low of the lowest on the economic scale is almost impossible to believe. This is a generous nation. We can see it when you have disaster anywhere in the world you see people giving. Then why this talk? It comes from the GOP that has always been trying to make the case that if you did not become well off is your fault and you and your children should go hungry and better yet, lets make the the schools so expensive so only the well off can afford it. It’s never been like that in this country, because this was not a rich nation at it’s beginning but now we have governments that send rockets to kill people wether they deserve it or not is not the argument but if people knew what those missiles costs there would be no comparison with $20-$120 a month for food and signing a budget that does not changes the lifes of anyone but the one’s that don’t have enough. adamfoxie*
Soledad O'Brien grilled Sen. Jeff Sessions over his efforts to cut the federal food stamps program on Tuesday's "Starting Point."
Earlier this year, Sessions proposed removing $11 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. He advocated cuts on Tuesday, arguing that food stamp spending has gone up even though unemployment is currently on the decline.
O'Brien seemed skeptical. "There are people who'd say if you're doing cuts, you invariably hurt people who need food and people who need food stamps to buy supplemental food," she said.
Sessions argued that the program has been "growing out of control" and "there are a lot of people receiving benefits who do not qualify and should not receive them." O'Brien said that Sessions himself voted to expand the program in 2002 and 2008, and cited research that found the program has a low rate of fraud.
Later, she said, "When you’re thinking of things to cut, people basically say, why are you trying to balance the budget on people making less than $23,000 a year... So why not cut something else? There are other things that could be on the table before you pick a program that is feeding the nation’s poor children."
Sessions said that he was not picking on solely the food stamp program. "I say all programs need to be examined in this government," he responded. "This government is wasting money every day."
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