You as one of the citizens in my district, can ask anyone that knows me personally and politically and they will tell you that I am Conservative on both financial and social issues, but today the far right of the Republican Party has targeted the lower middle class and the working class with the bill that will cut food stamps by $80 Billion dollar a year adding up to $700 Billion in ten years. I am all for cutting the budget (well, actually having a budget) in places, but I know of people in our district that are working two jobs and cannot afford food for their children then when they ask for food stamps the division of Family services say “ Sorry, you make too much for food stamps”.
Here in Jefferson County, buying an adequate lunch for $5 is hard enough to do. So having a mere $4.56 a day to spend on all of your meals, snacks included, sounds impossible.
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For more than 160,000 Missourian citizens who use food stamps, that is what they’re given, $4.56.
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Cutting funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and food stamps, that may happen if the Republicans have their way, will decrease the amount paid recipients even further and risk having a child go to bed hunger .
The U.S. Senate passed a farm bill that reduced food stamp spending by $24 billion over 10 years. The House Democrats said they would vote for this bill, but House Republicans amended the bill. The Democrats called the Republican amendment “immoral” and they are correct. The Republicans said the Democrats reneged on passing the bill.
The House’s focuses right now is on where cuts can be made and to me that is fine, but to some Republicans see cutting food stamps and letting a child go hunger seems as a good place to start
However, food stamps are not the place to make major cuts.