Congressional Supercommittee focuses on cutting food stamps when they are crucial to so many:

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Food stamp cuts could put food banks in a box
Published: Saturday, October 15, 2011, 5:45 PM
By David Sarasohn, The Oregonian The Oregonian

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/david_sarasohn/index.ssf/2011/10/food_stamp_cuts_could_put_food.html

...As the congressional supercommittee focuses on cutting $1.5 trillion from the long-term deficit, the $700 billion projected over the next decade for food stamps is on the table. The long-term plan from House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., takes $121 billion from the program, and turns it over to the states. Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., a power on both agriculture and hunger, is proposing sizable cuts. At the end of the week, the leaders of the House and Senate agriculture committees, which oversee food stamps, were preparing their proposal to the supercommittee.

Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, visiting Portland recently, warned The Oregonian's editorial board against taking a big budget bite out of food stamps, pointing out that most of the families helped by the program include children and/or senior citizens.

...It's also an idea that unnerves people running hunger programs at ground level.

"That would just be devastating," said Bristol. "Any cuts in food stamps just force more people to our door."

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Is there any wonder why there are outcry's in the street? There will be more hunger and more suffering if this goes through. Oh but don't make the rich pay the same tax they did during the Clinton era - they are the job creators....makes me ill!
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