The Republican War On America's Hungry Children

This Friday, because of the Republican House, there will be significant drop in the funding of SNAP (food stamps). Now poor people in America will have to make do on $1.40 a meal. Just remember that one in four of the people in America that are poor and hungry are our children. Even a quarter of a million kids would lose their free school lunch every day!
While all sorts of ear mark funding is being put forward by the Republicans they have decided to make their fiscal responsibility 'stand' on the backs of America's hungry kids.
Journalist Elizabeth Drew reported on this issue in Rolling Stone Magazine. It is an extraordinary article not only on the food stamp issue but the hidden right wing extremist workings of the House. This is a must read. Here are some excerpts from her "The Republican War on Food Stamps". Be sure to read all of it.

The way the program to provide the poor with the bare minimum of daily nutrition has been handled is a metaphor for how the far right in the House is systematically trying to take down the federal government. The Tea Party radicals and those who either fear or cultivate them are now subjecting the food-stamp program to the same kind of assault they have unleashed on other settled policies and understandings that have been in place for decades. Breaking all manner of precedents on a series of highly partisan votes, with the Republicans barely prevailing, the House in September slashed the food-stamp program by a whopping $39 billion and imposed harsh new requirements for getting on, or staying on, the program. The point was to deny the benefit to millions. 

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