Glen Zazove
Important Reprise: For our world to be great...
The shit hole Trump administration and its Republican enablers in congress are at it again -- this time trying to use federal regulations to cut food stamp benefits to many of Americas most needy families and individuals. They cynically claim it's to prevent fraud and save money, but the fact is fraud in the program is practically non-existent and the money saved is literally peanuts -- especially in relation to the massive tax breaks they recently gave Corporations and wealthy shareholders. This is nothing but a mean-spirited attack on the extremely poor. We are better than this!
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The U.S. House of Representatives Budget Committee-approved budget plan would cut the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the Food Stamp Program) by more than $150 billion, over 20 percent, over the next ten years (2017-2026). A cut of this magnitude would necessitate ending food assistance for millions of low-income families, cutting benefits for millions of these households, or some combination of the two. The committee has proposed similarly deep SNAP cuts in each of its last five budgets. This year’s budget has two categories of SNAP cuts:
It includes three major benefit cuts that Congress ultimately rejected from House-passed versions of the 2014 farm bill. They would terminate benefits to about 3 million low-income people — including many working families, senior citizens, and people with disabilities, and some of the poorest Americans — and cut SNAP spending by more than $25 billion over ten years (2017-2026).
It would convert SNAP into a block grant beginning in 2021 and cut funding steeply — by $125 billion (or almost 30 percent) over 2021 to 2026. States would be left to decide whose benefits to reduce or terminate. They would have no good choices, since SNAP benefits average only $1.41 per person per meal and go primarily to poor children, working parents, seniors, people with disabilities, and others struggling to make ends meet.
Important Reprise: For our world to be great...
The shit hole Trump administration and its Republican enablers in congress are at it again -- this time trying to use federal regulations to cut food stamp benefits to many of Americas most needy families and individuals. They cynically claim it's to prevent fraud and save money, but the fact is fraud in the program is practically non-existent and the money saved is literally peanuts -- especially in relation to the massive tax breaks they recently gave Corporations and wealthy shareholders. This is nothing but a mean-spirited attack on the extremely poor. We are better than this!
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The U.S. House of Representatives Budget Committee-approved budget plan would cut the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the Food Stamp Program) by more than $150 billion, over 20 percent, over the next ten years (2017-2026). A cut of this magnitude would necessitate ending food assistance for millions of low-income families, cutting benefits for millions of these households, or some combination of the two. The committee has proposed similarly deep SNAP cuts in each of its last five budgets. This year’s budget has two categories of SNAP cuts:
It includes three major benefit cuts that Congress ultimately rejected from House-passed versions of the 2014 farm bill. They would terminate benefits to about 3 million low-income people — including many working families, senior citizens, and people with disabilities, and some of the poorest Americans — and cut SNAP spending by more than $25 billion over ten years (2017-2026).
It would convert SNAP into a block grant beginning in 2021 and cut funding steeply — by $125 billion (or almost 30 percent) over 2021 to 2026. States would be left to decide whose benefits to reduce or terminate. They would have no good choices, since SNAP benefits average only $1.41 per person per meal and go primarily to poor children, working parents, seniors, people with disabilities, and others struggling to make ends meet.