You're Going To Hell Jeff

Think Progress: Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is pushing a new amendment that would make it more difficult for people to receive food stamps by restricting eligibility requirements and eliminating a planned $9 billion funding increase for the program. Sessions says his plan is intended to reduce the deficit and combat fraud, which he claims is rampant. From ABC News’ Top Line today:

SESSIONS: No program in our government has surged out of control more dramatically than food stamps. And nothing is being done about it. [...] Multimillion dollar lottery winners are getting food stamps because the money is considered to be an asset not an income. One of the fast and furious gun buyers –

HOST: But hold on, for ever lottery winner that has food stamps, there’s probably a lot more people who really need them who have them, right?

SESSIONS: Well look, do you think there are four times as many people who need food stamps today as in 2001. That answers itself. [...] We cannot do this. We do not have the money. Congress doesn’t understand that we can’t afford to double the program every three years.

Ok... number one, yes, since your public policy came back in 2001 a lot more people need food stamps. Thank you for highlighting how horrific your results are. Two, anybody who would trot out the ridiculous canard that "multimillion dollar lottery winners are getting food stamps" in order to keep them from millions truly in need, is just about the worst humanity has to offer. And three, as for not having money to pay for them, take a week off from the wars you lied us into or the tax cuts you gave to billionaires and we'll be fine for food stamps for poor people. Asshole.