Big Budget Cuts for the Federal Food Stamp Program

The Republicans are at it again.  Once more they are attempting to heal the financial woes of the country by attacking the poor.

This time, the plan is to chop off $4 billion dollars a year from the SNAP Benefits program by requiring stricter eligibility requirements, drug testing, and work requirements.

Nowhere is there anything being said about job training programs or any other measure that might help people get out off and stay off of the food stamp/government assistance merry go round.

It is easy to attack poor people and say “let them go get jobs,” but the issue isn’t quite that simple… but somehow, Republicans keep missing that one little detail.  I swear, they (Republicans) act like they’re stupid or something.

Nobody, including me, wants politicians to keep throwing money and food stamps at poor people.  For the most part, poor people want access to jobs that pay a living wage.

Perhaps the government should start looking at a federal job training program, similar to Job Corps, which would offer free, high wage, job training to adults of any age.

True enough, there are some people who want to take advantage of the system, like our friend the California Surf Bum, who only wants to get his “Food Stamp Lobster’s” every month, but that type of thing is definitely more the exception than the rule.

http://www.suntimes.com/opinions/21688754-474/americans-struggling-with-hunger-cant-afford-big-cuts-to-food-stamp-program.html