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    House passes bill against Food Stamps

    Bill would cut $40 billion from food stamps.
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    Re: House passes bill against Food Stamps

    State house or federal?





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    Re: House passes bill against Food Stamps

    Quote Originally Posted by HoustonRaven View Post
    State house or federal?
    Federal.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/20/us...amps.html?_r=0


    I doubt it gets anywhere in the Senate though.


    I read somewhere, I'll see if I can find it, that this was something that they were going to hold strong on until the Dems agree to re-work Obamacare.
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    Re: House passes bill against Food Stamps

    Yeah. This isn't going anywhere.
    And $4B a year is laughable.
    No balls anywhere on Capitol Hill.
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    Re: House passes bill against Food Stamps

    Quote Originally Posted by BigPlayReceiver View Post
    Yeah. This isn't going anywhere.
    And $4B a year is laughable.
    No balls anywhere on Capitol Hill.
    40 billion.
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    Re: House passes bill against Food Stamps

    Quote Originally Posted by wickedsolo View Post
    40 billion.
    Pretty sure that is over 10 years.

    The fact is the food stamp program has gotten way out of hand, and is now as much a farmer subsidy as it is a safety net program.





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    Re: House passes bill against Food Stamps

    Quote Originally Posted by BigPlayReceiver View Post
    Yeah. This isn't going anywhere.
    And $4B a year is laughable.
    No balls anywhere on Capitol Hill.
    Exactly.

    ILMAO at Boner when he said he expects a good fight from the Senate. Hell, he'll
    be the first to cave in as always which is why we call him Boner.
    Last edited by AirFlacco; 09-20-2013 at 11:24 PM.





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    Re: House passes bill against Food Stamps

    I am fully expecting a gov shut down for a few weeks...
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    Re: House passes bill against Food Stamps

    Quote Originally Posted by wickedsolo View Post
    I am fully expecting a gov shut down for a few weeks...
    I certainly hope so.





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    Re: House passes bill against Food Stamps

    Quote Originally Posted by HoustonRaven View Post
    I certainly hope so.
    YOu wouldn't be saying that if you worked for the Gov't. I was furloughed back in the
    90s when GOP lost their show down and the gov't closed, however we still got paid
    and laughed because we got a couple of extra days off.

    However, my former agency furloughed the entire damn place all summer. NO one could
    work on Fridays and MOndays. I know guys that lost $500 pr mo. Nobody laughed then.
    They went back to work first week of Sept and are cringing at another shut down.

    The bad thing about it was the agency had the money to pay them via supplemental funds
    but MED COM, the parent command, wouldn't let them use it. They didn't care about
    the employees.

    Supplmental funds are in addition to the budget handed down by the Pentagon. We
    generated them because we are one of the few gov't agencies that operates as a business.
    Thats because we have expertise that private businesses, local gov'ts and foundations need so they contract us.

    We send employees all over the world on jobs like ground water and air pollution and even
    noise pollution and even hospitals concerning industrial hygiene issues ensuring they
    are in compliance with Federal regulations.

    They generate millions but the pentagon wouldn't let them disburse them
    to furlough employees and that sucks.
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    Re: House passes bill against Food Stamps

    Quote Originally Posted by HoustonRaven View Post
    I certainly hope so.
    I don't. I just got finish being furloughed. My savings is almost empty.
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