Think Progress: Members of the House Agriculture Committee this week will be marking up a “compromise” version of this year’s farm bill, which includes cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) — i.e. food stamps — that would result in two to three million people losing their food assistance. 45 percent of the proposed cuts to federal spending in the bill come from reductions in the food stamp program.
The bulk of the cuts would be a result of eliminating what is known as “categorical eligibility,” which gave states the flexibility to enroll families in SNAP even if their assets (such as a car or modest savings) or income push them barely above the line to qualify for assistance. According to the Congressional Budget Office, such a move would not only boot 1.8 million people off of food stamps, but would knock 280,000 children off of the free school lunch program.
You have to be a special kind of mean to vote for a political party that would take food out of the mouths of poor children in order to pay for tax breaks for billionaires. Jesus said: "again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." You can bet your last dollar it wont help to vote the filthy rich that much richer at the expense of the poor.
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