He's taking the kids' food money for Big Moo's pet project.
Obama using food-stamp cash to fund Michelle?s ?Let?s Move? | New York Post
As you dig into your Butterball with all the trimmings this Thanksgiving, remember that millions of famished schoolkids around America may be forced to forgo classic turkey and chow down instead on vegan black-bean patties and organic locavore quinoa salad.
On Nov. 1, sizable cuts were gouged into the federal food-stamp program (or, as its now called, SNAP, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), which feeds 47.6 million people, or nearly one in six Americans. In the city, 1.9 million folks get the bulk of their Jell-O and Campbells Soup from stamps.
But news has spread among the poor, like leafy green vegetables, that it wasnt heartless Republicans who triggered the cuts.
Rather, some of the food-stamp cash was snatched to pay for Michelle Obamas pet project, Lets Move.
Its come to this. Some 76 million meals a year will vanish from this city poof! partly because the president diverted money from SNAP to the first ladys signature program, part of her Lets Move anti-obesity initiative the bean-sprout-heavy, $4.5 billion Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act.
The great food grab began in 2010, when President Obama, with Michelle and US Department of Agriculture honchos at his side, signed the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act. At the time, he admitted taking cash from one pocket to feed the other.
Some of the funding [for the lunch program] comes from rolling back temporary increases in food-stamp benefits, he said, starting in the fall of 2013.
Maybe a good source for food money is the school-lunch program, as kids around the nation rise up against government-approved grub.
One school districts kids said it tastes like vomit.
obama, just full of good ideas!
Obama using food-stamp cash to fund Michelle?s ?Let?s Move? | New York Post
As you dig into your Butterball with all the trimmings this Thanksgiving, remember that millions of famished schoolkids around America may be forced to forgo classic turkey and chow down instead on vegan black-bean patties and organic locavore quinoa salad.
On Nov. 1, sizable cuts were gouged into the federal food-stamp program (or, as its now called, SNAP, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), which feeds 47.6 million people, or nearly one in six Americans. In the city, 1.9 million folks get the bulk of their Jell-O and Campbells Soup from stamps.
But news has spread among the poor, like leafy green vegetables, that it wasnt heartless Republicans who triggered the cuts.
Rather, some of the food-stamp cash was snatched to pay for Michelle Obamas pet project, Lets Move.
Its come to this. Some 76 million meals a year will vanish from this city poof! partly because the president diverted money from SNAP to the first ladys signature program, part of her Lets Move anti-obesity initiative the bean-sprout-heavy, $4.5 billion Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act.
The great food grab began in 2010, when President Obama, with Michelle and US Department of Agriculture honchos at his side, signed the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act. At the time, he admitted taking cash from one pocket to feed the other.
Some of the funding [for the lunch program] comes from rolling back temporary increases in food-stamp benefits, he said, starting in the fall of 2013.
Maybe a good source for food money is the school-lunch program, as kids around the nation rise up against government-approved grub.
One school districts kids said it tastes like vomit.
obama, just full of good ideas!
