representative steve came
talking about food stamps
whereabouts uh... year uh...
advantage
it'll be a billion dollars maybe you
calculate our budgets and spending it in
your budget lindo
so that means eight hundred billion
dollars is a universe of money that he's
talking about
bases pleaded with us luxury fears that
growth
from seventy eight
a little bit more than seventy eight
million dollars a year over a billion
dollars a year
two billion dollar a year increases
program between this year next year
over a year or the time period about ten
years there would be
twenty billion dollars trade-off of
eight hundred billion dollars
for cancer about a two-and-a-half
percent indian eateries and the overall
projected expenditures
the food stamp program know is that
after all that technical gibberish the
bottom line is a twenty billion dollar
cut is a two and a half billion dollar
cut in interest
twenty billion dollars spread out over
ten years is not something that's going
to be noticeable
and here's why did this clip is really
important because
based on this clip
you can actually see why uh...
republican a right winger might might
think looking sounds completely
reasonable you saying let's do these
tiny little minor cut
but the problem as it always is with the
republicans is that
they never gave me the full context so
you never know all the facts so they're
misleading you
he saying a twenty million dollar cut to
the supplemental nutritional systems
program or snap
or as used to be called food stamps
uh... quote spread out over ten years is
not something that is going to be
noticeable
so what's the part that is missing
last year the house agricultural
committee passed a bill that included
sixteen point five billion dollars in
cuts
to food stamps
as a result of the center on budget and
policy priorities estimated that two to
three million low income people
would no longer receive food assistance
now this legislation touted by steve
king
goes even further it adds more cuts
on top of those cuts
furthermore
we've already cut spending on the poor
as much as possible
look at the sequester half of the
sequester is cuts to programs for
low-income people
for more
snap lifted at four point seven million
people out of poverty
nearly half of whom were children
despite the fact that most recipients
receive less than one dollar and fifty
cents per meal on average
look at the priorities
that's the part of the drives me crazy
is that and look it's not just the
republicans as the democrats to did you
know
so the sequester as we know what's
happens to the poor have custody fence
did you know in the budget old bomb a
proposed
sprinkled out throughout the entire
budget little provisions here in there
they reinstated all of the cots that
woulda went to the pentagon
the reinstate the cuts that were for the
poor no not a single one
for the pentagon yuck throwback in bend
their money they're getting their
corporate welfare check why because they
fund the politicians
so look at the priorities exxon mobil's
four billion dollars subsidy per
republicans try to filibuster avalon one
to take that away
so-called welfare good find anti-big
government all day long
uh... dollar and fifty cents per meal
for poor people who would be able to eat
otherwise
gotta cut it more gotta cut it more
now can you imagine for a second
if representative king
his family
needed food stamps
how quickly with the tone change
can you imagine
he would be no more here in the cause of
uh... food stamps
