My rep voted against the 4.5 billion child nutrition bill yesterday. He was right.

[cali]

As he says, it's a good bill, but over half its cost is going to be paid for by cuts to food stamps. What fucking sense does that make?

http://www.reformer.com/ci_16765174?source=most_emailed

[DJ13]

1. Feed the child, starve the family

Sounds..... mindlessly conservative.

[druidity33]

2. were those cuts already made?

I thought they were trying to prevent the money from going into the general budget...

:shrug:

[bigtree]

5. sort of

. . . the food stamp fund hasn't actually been cut yet, and the promise which satisfied many of the holdout legislators is that the money will be restored before that actually happens. We'll see. The cuts to the food stamp program do not take effect until 2013.

unrec for a lousy, incomplete argument.

[formercia]

3. Like my sig says:

[StarsInHerHair]

4. I had to rec-you really should put it all in the title food stamps vs

child nutrition=bad. What's that story about cutting the blanket off at the feet and sewing it on to the top?