Dems may use food-stamp money to pay for Michelle Obama’s nutrition initiative. 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.
Democrat 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.
Democrats have turned to the food-stamp program because funding increases enacted in the stimulus package last year were already scheduled to phase out over time. The changes proposed in the state-aid and nutrition bills would simply cut off that increase early, in March 2014. Because the cuts would not take effect for more than three years, Democratic leaders have voiced the hope that they will be able to stop the cuts in future legislation.
Read this article if you are feed up with government interference and the Democrats trying to pick winners and losers to give themselves more power over the American people and the way we live.
If it weren’t for the poor the seniors citizens would be the lead whipping choice of the Democratic Socialist Party.
Now the Fannie and Freddie bailouts begin.