teapartysamurai
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Are Democrats like TRYING to look like phonies just before the election??? Are they that desperate to lose?
Democrats who reluctantly slashed a food stamp program to fund a state aid bill may have to do so again to pay for a top priority of first lady Michelle Obama.
The House will soon consider an $8 billion child nutrition bill thats at the center of the first ladys Lets Move initiative. Before leaving for the summer recess, the Senate passed a smaller version of the legislation that is paid for by trimming the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as food stamps.
The proposed cuts would come on top of a 13.6 percent food stamp reduction in the $26 billion Medicaid and education state funding bill that President Obama signed this week.
Food stamps have made multiple appearances on the fiscal chopping block because Democrats have few other places to turn to offset the cost of legislation.
Party leaders raided the budget to find off-setting tax increases and spending cuts to pay for their top legislative priorities, including the roughly $900 billion healthcare law. Congressional pay-as-you-go rules require lawmakers to offset all non-emergency spending.
Read all here: Dems may use food stamp money to pay for Michelle Obama's nutrition initiative - TheHill.com
This is JUST HILARIOUS! After lecturing us for DECADES how this program was needed to feed the poor, they are slashing it right and left to keep special interests (like Michelle) happy.
And why do we need a nutrionist in schools? I THOUGHT THAT'S WHAT PARENTS DO!!!!!!!!!!!!
Leave it to the government to think only THEY can do the job the Founding Fathers thought was best left to the individual and families.