The weight of carrying their slaves has become too heavy a burden for them to carry — US Senate bill cuts $4 billion from food stamp program

Greetings,

  Poor black man and woman here in America. You refuse to open your eyes to the politics being played on you by your oppressors & their #1 nigger! They are showing you through policy & legislation that you are their prime target.

  Regardless to all of their plights…regardless to all outside wars and the the impending currency and economic implosion, they are still targeting their former slaves as if you are the ones who has beaten & robbed them. They hate you and all you have to do is look t their actions, not their words. If you do that, you will see the truth for yourselves.

  As was said…”America, right up to today — with all of her battles with her outside enemies, never loses sight of the inside — her poor old Black Slave — she does not want him to do anything. She wants him to be deceived. She does not want him to accept his salvation that Allah (God) is offering the Black once-slave, here in America.”–pg.205(tfoa)

  Indeed…” The Black man of America is so mistreated by his four hundred year old slave master and his slavemasters’ children that you just cannot describe any other mistreatment of human beings to equal the evil and ill treatment that the Black Man has and still suffers in America.”–pg.80(tfoa)

   She hates you and soon you will recognize this. This devil mistreats you constantly…”Black slaves went to their death, fighting the enemy of the white slavemaster, to help America to maintain her independence against foreign dominance. The Black slave was not given anything in exchange for his sacrifice.

 When a dog hunts for a hunter, the hunter (master) will sometimes share part of the game with the dog. The Black slave has helped his master to overcome and to put other peoples under the control of his white slave-master. The Black slave has fought, bled and died around the earth, to help the white slave-master to conquer those whom the master called his enemies.”–pgs.71 & 72(tfoa)

  

US Senate bill cuts $4 billion from food stamp program

By Kate Randall
Source: www.wsws.org

The Democratic-controlled US Senate passed a $500 billion, five-year farm bill on Monday that would cut $4 billion over a decade from food stamps, known today as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Nutrition programs comprise about 80 percent of the farm bill, in addition to commodity programs, crop insurance, conservation and other items. The move to cut SNAP comes as record numbers of Americans—47.8 million as of December 2012—have turned to the program in an effort to meet basic nutritional needs.

 

The Senate bill, which passed by a 66-27 vote, now goes to the US House, where Republicans are clamoring for even deeper cuts to SNAP—$20 billion over 10 years. Senate Democrats are well aware that their $4 billion proposed cut will be a bargaining chip in negotiations to reconcile the Senate bill with any future House version of the legislation. The inevitable result will be deep cuts to food aid—falling somewhere between the Senate and House proposals—at a time when need is growing for millions of poor American families.

In addition to the SNAP cuts, the Senate bill also includes a reactionary amendment authored by Senator David Vitter, Republican of Louisiana, that would bar food stamps to people previously convicted of murder, pedophilia and violent sexual assault. The Senate rejected two other Republican amendments: one that would have cut $31 billion from food stamps, and another that would have converted SNAP to a block grant program and cut it by $300 billion.

Food stamp usage has soared since the onset of the recession, rising from 28.2 million people in 2008 to 47.8 million at the end of 2012. A staggering 15 percent of the US population currently receives SNAP benefits, nearly double the rate of 1975. Federal SNAP funding has risen from $35 billion in 2008 to $80 billion today, earning the ire of politicians from both big-business parties who are demanding spending cuts from a wide array of social programs depended upon by millions of people who have been devastated by the economic crisis.

The cut in SNAP funding will translate into increased hunger and food insecurity for food stamp recipients. According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the Senate plan would reduce SNAP benefits to 500,000 households, while the House proposal would eliminate SNAP benefits for about 1.8 million people and cut 200,000 children off free school lunches.

The SNAP benefits that Congress proposes to cut are already abysmally low—averaging only $133 a month per person as of 2012. To qualify, a household’s income cannot exceed 130 percent of the federal poverty level, which is about $25,000 for a family of three, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP). A minimal expansion to SNAP as part of the Obama administration’s 2009 stimulus bill is set to expire October 31, which the CBPP estimates will decrease benefits by about $8 a month per person.

The number of people receiving food stamp benefits corresponds closely to the number of Americans living in poverty, which rose to just below 50 million people in 2011. About half of all food stamp recipients are children, and about half of these children—some 10 million—live in extreme poverty. A household is considered living in extreme poverty if income is less than half the official federal poverty level, or $11,775 for a family of four….more here

Click here for reuse options!
Copyright 2013 Hiram's 1555 Blog