healthmyths
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- Sep 19, 2011
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MSM! EXAGGERATION BLOWN out of proportion COMMENT and out right LIES!!!
From USATODAY story sobbing about how the "Food stamps cut will":
"a family of four that gets $668 per month in benefits will find that amount cut by $36.
Congress is currently debating the bill, which has additional cuts to the program totaling up to $40 billion.
A cut that size, say advocates, such as Hamler-Fugitt and Flood, would be devastating."
Food stamp cuts create high demand for food bank supplies
FACTS!!!!
A) The cuts are over 10 years or $4 billion a year to a program that spends $700 billion over ten years!
But USA makes it sound like a $40 billion cut right away!!! BIG LIE!
So when the above idiot says "$668 family of 4 is cut by $36 they are taking the entire $4 billion across all participants!
That is so contrary to the bill's requirements:
B) The bill would cut $40 billion from the food stamp program over the next 10 years.
C) It would also require adults between 18 and 50 without minor children to find a job or to enroll in a work-training program in order to receive benefits.
D) It would also limit the time those recipients could get benefits to three months.
Currently, states can extend food stamp benefits past three months for able-bodied people who are working or preparing for work as part of a job-training program.
E) The bill would also restrict people enrolled in other social welfare programs from automatically becoming eligible for food stamps.
F) In addition, the legislation would allow states to require food stamp recipients to be tested for drugs and
G) to stop lottery winners from getting benefits.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/20/u...bill-cutting-40-billion-from-food-stamps.html
From USATODAY story sobbing about how the "Food stamps cut will":
"a family of four that gets $668 per month in benefits will find that amount cut by $36.
Congress is currently debating the bill, which has additional cuts to the program totaling up to $40 billion.
A cut that size, say advocates, such as Hamler-Fugitt and Flood, would be devastating."
Food stamp cuts create high demand for food bank supplies
FACTS!!!!
A) The cuts are over 10 years or $4 billion a year to a program that spends $700 billion over ten years!
But USA makes it sound like a $40 billion cut right away!!! BIG LIE!
So when the above idiot says "$668 family of 4 is cut by $36 they are taking the entire $4 billion across all participants!
That is so contrary to the bill's requirements:
B) The bill would cut $40 billion from the food stamp program over the next 10 years.
C) It would also require adults between 18 and 50 without minor children to find a job or to enroll in a work-training program in order to receive benefits.
D) It would also limit the time those recipients could get benefits to three months.
Currently, states can extend food stamp benefits past three months for able-bodied people who are working or preparing for work as part of a job-training program.
E) The bill would also restrict people enrolled in other social welfare programs from automatically becoming eligible for food stamps.
F) In addition, the legislation would allow states to require food stamp recipients to be tested for drugs and
G) to stop lottery winners from getting benefits.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/20/u...bill-cutting-40-billion-from-food-stamps.html
