Think Progress: Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is advancing an amendment to the 2012 farm bill that will cut more than $4 billion from the food stamp program and could take $90 out of the average benefit just as millions of lower-income families are struggling to make ends meet in a difficult economy.
That's nice. Cut food stamps for the poorest among us in order to pay for more tax cuts for billionaires and transnational corporations. Jesus would not be pleased.
By the way, food stamps are part of the foundation upon which upward mobility, America - the land of opportunity, is based. After all, how can you work a steady job much less get a quality education if you're starving? Once again Republicans work against that which makes us Americans.
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