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**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 90661 04-16-2012 08:21 PM

Food stamps moved front-and-center in the budget wars Monday morning, as House Republicans began rolling out a first wave of $33.2 billion in 10-year savings that will have an immediate impact in the farm bill debate and come November, the 2012 elections.

An average family of four faces an 11 percent cut in monthly benefits after Sept. 1, and even more important is the tighter enforcement of rules demanding that households exhaust most of their savings before qualifying for help. This hits hardest among the long-term unemployed, many of whom never before used the aid –now titled SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program)—but have found it valuable in trying to stay afloat in the current recession.

Indeed food stamp enrollment and costs have exploded since the financial collapse four years ago, making SNAP a target for the right— but also far bigger political issue in swing states like Florida, Nevada and Ohio.

National food stamp enrollment reached 46.4 million people in January 2012, a nearly two-thirds increase from the average participation in fiscal 2008. The annual costs—now running in excess of $80 billion—have more than doubled in the same period. And even the most ardent food stamp proponents will sometimes say SNAP is a program “asked to do too much.”

The White House deliberately increased monthly benefits in 2009 by about $20 per person as a way to pump stimulus dollars into the economy. And in this post welfare-reform crisis, hard-strapped governors have sought to maximize food stamp dollars as a cheap way to help families without tapping state funds.

The higher costs and visibility—especially as more businesses advertise that they will honor the electronic benefit cards introduced in the 1980’s—are what’s driving the Republican push.

The Recovery Act boost in benefits is already phasing out and will be gone entirely by November 2013. But the package now, to be taken up by the House Agriculture Committee Wednesday, would end this abruptly summer, impacting families Sept. 1, and saving about $5.9 billion in 2012 and 2013....

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0412/75190.html

**Indigenous Intelligence**

Uh oh. Riots are coming...

doomed

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 89720 04-16-2012 08:23 PM

Indigenous Intelligence Wrote:

Uh oh. Riots are coming...

Good! Bring it on.......

**NightHelix** lop guest User ID: 79549 04-16-2012 08:23 PM

that sounds like a lot of bad noise to me, can any one interpret it? i get $200 in food stamps as 1 person. does this mean they will take away 100?

~~WalkersEverywhere~~ · (This post was last modified: 04-16-2012 08:25 PM by WalkersEverywhere.)

Outstanding!!

Food stamps predominantly go to Democrats in Democrat cities.

Stop the food stamps, the cities will burn.

The cities burn, the Democrat cities are full of bodies.

hellyeah1

Winning!

**The Evil AC** I am not a number!!! User ID: 666 04-16-2012 08:24 PM

MAD HATTER Wrote:

that sounds like a lot of bad noise to me, can any one interpret it? i get $200 in food stamps as 1 person. does this mean they will take away 100?

You can live on $100 a month for groceries.

**Twatwaffle** lop guest User ID: 90652 04-16-2012 08:25 PM

Nah.

JPM is in charge of the SNAP Program in many states and they have an interest in growing national dependency, just like teh fedguv.

Apply for your personal EBT today!

chuckle

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 82316 04-16-2012 08:26 PM

WalkersEverywhere Wrote:

Outstanding!!

Food stamps predominantly go to Democrats in Democrat cities.

Stop the food stamps, the cities will burn.

The cities burn, the Democrat cities are full of bodies.

Winning!

?

Reichwinger values....

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 82316 04-16-2012 08:27 PM

MAD HATTER Wrote:

that sounds like a lot of bad noise to me, can any one interpret it? i get $200 in food stamps as 1 person. does this mean they will take away 100?

LOL

Please remind us all how you are superior again?

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 77320 04-16-2012 08:28 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzspsovNvII

**NightHelix** lop guest User ID: 79549 04-16-2012 08:28 PM

The Evil AC Wrote:

MAD HATTER Wrote:
that sounds like a lot of bad noise to me, can any one interpret it? i get $200 in food stamps as 1 person. does this mean they will take away 100?

You can live on $100 a month for groceries.

food isnt cheap

**NightHelix** lop guest User ID: 79549 04-16-2012 08:29 PM

LoP Guest Wrote:

MAD HATTER Wrote:
that sounds like a lot of bad noise to me, can any one interpret it? i get $200 in food stamps as 1 person. does this mean they will take away 100?

LOL

Please remind us all how you are superior again?

what the f*ck are you talking about?

**The Evil AC** I am not a number!!! User ID: 666 04-16-2012 08:29 PM

MAD HATTER Wrote:

The Evil AC Wrote:
MAD HATTER Wrote:
that sounds like a lot of bad noise to me, can any one interpret it? i get $200 in food stamps as 1 person. does this mean they will take away 100?

You can live on $100 a month for groceries.

food isnt cheap

You can live on $100 a month for groceries. Stop being a whiny leech.

**Bad 'Pottamus NLI** lop guest User ID: 82349 04-16-2012 08:30 PM

Democrats luv EBT.

Bring back the soup lines force them to explain their depression.

Force them to deal with it, by reinstating the New Deal.

Instead of coasting on "reighwingers suck."

We know that already. LEAD or STFU.

Heartflowers

Glass-Steagall. New WPA!

Pecora commission!

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 77320 04-16-2012 08:30 PM

MAD HATTER Wrote:

The Evil AC Wrote:
MAD HATTER Wrote:
that sounds like a lot of bad noise to me, can any one interpret it? i get $200 in food stamps as 1 person. does this mean they will take away 100?

You can live on $100 a month for groceries.

food isnt cheap

Eating or internet, which is more important?