Big Government for Dummies: Food-stamp cuts, bloated military budgets, and state-cartel capitalism

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Big Government for Dummies: Food-stamp cuts, bloated military budgets, and state-cartel capitalism
By: Scott McLarty Monday December 16, 2013 1:46 pm


It’s hardly a surprise that the coalition of social-justice groups that held a press conference in Washington, DC, on December 10 had no influence on the latest lurch into austerity.

The press conference in the Cannon House Office Building demanded that Congress make deep cuts in the nation’s military budget, reject reductions in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and redirect funds into sorely needed social safety-net programs. Along with other political and community leaders, members of the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign talked about how joblessness, hunger, foreclosures, and economic distress were hurting their families.

After the press conference, they walked in the snow to the office of Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), co-chair of the Budgetary Committee, to present a “People’s Budget” and supporting petitions (see the video).

Unfortunately, the austerity agenda, premised on the idea that working Americans should shoulder economic losses caused by Wall Street’s criminal recklessness, required that Congress decree otherwise. The bipartisan budget deal reached later on Tuesday exempted the Pentagon from sequestration, while allowing proposed food-stamp cuts to move forward and blocking unemployment extensions. ...........................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://my.firedoglake.com/scottmclarty/2013/12/16/big-government-for-dummies-food-stamp-cuts-bloated-military-budgets-and-state-cartel-capitalism/

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