"It is a scandal..."
Brent Budowsky: Food stamp scandals
By Brent Budowsky - 10/30/13 05:43 PM EDT
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It is scandalous that the hungriest Americans have been discarded from our public discourse and abandoned as nonpersons in our policy debates. They are treated like the disappeared in Pinochet’s Chile and the tortured in Stalin’s Gulag. They suffer in silence while politicians and the media ignore them.
It is a scandal that despite the real jobless rate of nearly 14 percent that will be announced on Friday, Republicans who caused the government shutdown that destroyed more jobs are continuing to oppose proposals by Democrats to create new jobs.
It is a scandal that despite punishing hunger caused by punishing joblessness, Republicans are attacking programs to feed the hungry with hostility and ferocity. Even conservative Republican Gov. John Kasich of Ohio worries that his party is waging a war against the poor.
The best way to reduce the budget deficit is to create more jobs, not to declare war against hungry children. The best way to lower the cost of the food stamp program is to lift more Americans out of poverty.
The attempt by Republicans in Congress to cut food stamps by almost $40 billion is a sadistic act of moral indecency against hungry children, the elderly and disabled Americans who need this program.
The cut in food stamps that would be imposed Friday is a grotesque attack against the hungry, an outrage the media must not ignore and a scandal that must be reversed.
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http://thehill.com/opinion/brent-budowsky/188750-brent-budowsky-food-stamp-scandals
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