Comments on: Oregon Gov. Will Live On Food Stamp Diet

For One Week, As He Battles Proposed Cuts In Federal Program

[mcvet]

The Christian Science Monitor reprted last week that the wall had finally been breached: 52% of 'so-called' Americans are receiving some type of handout from the government. We have become a modern day Roman Empire where those who can and do, are forced to provide for those who should but won't!
Posted by trisporter at 06:13 AM : Apr 23, 2007

Please! You're just another in a long line of Rich Nazi's who has gotten that way in a nation created and protected by hard working people. People who DO believe that those who can not get enough to get by on should have it. It's called the American Way you pathetic LOSER. I, for one, think we have a choice confronting us. We either rid ourselves of these slimy Nazi's and all they stand for or watch our nation continue to slide downward toward third world status. Sieg Heil America

[linfinster]

The FS program for, "Abled Bodied Adults Without Dependents" who have no medical reasons for not working are asked to do 24 hrs of community service to receive thier allotment each month, after the first 3 months, if they cannot get a job. You'd be surprised how many people wont do that.

Regardless

It is disgusting that there could be further cuts to this program. Food should NOT be where we are looking to tighten out belt! Shame SHAME.

Today's cheaper food contain additives and biproducts that keep us very unhealthy, that allows the medical costs to soar and profits to be had by the rich pharmacuticals .. and others ..

[sharncedar]

"They love to say things like "He made the choice to be in that situation", "

Yep, this is their dishonest mantra. The constant statement is that th poor deserve to be poor, which of course implies the rich derserve to be rich. That's the real point of the elite oppressors, that somehow they earned ro deserved to take the lion's share of everything. From our persepective, they are dirty crooks, who have gained their ill-gotten gains through a willingness to do more evil than their fellow man. It's a lousy system that makes the burden of the porr so heavy, while wasting the fat of the land on ugly McMansions.

They make theor money through offshoring and importing cheap workers, then blame the people who can't find a job or hold a job at current wages and conditions.

[boondoggler7]

Bush is not a tax paying american. he is a tax taking american on the biggest ebt card in global history

[mgpm-2009]

"How can it be more compassionate to spend billion$ on a war than to help care for our brothers and sisters who are hungry and sick? How can Bush call himself a 'Christian'?"
--dallison7

AMEN! I don't know. Honestly, they can be so tight with a buck when it comes to the poor but so loose with the purse strings when it comes to mowing down people somewhere else on the slimmest of pretenses. Talk about throwing money at a problem! And they so blindly keep supporting the war when it clearly is the worst failure in American history, besides Katrina.

I want to know why there wasn't a big 'ol news conference to announce the cuts to the food stamps program. Flippin' cowards. Taking food out of the American people's mouths to pay for his war machine. That's sickening.

[trisporter]

Just another dumb political stunt but another dumb politician. It is apparent that ignorance is not held back by party affiliation. Food stamps are not meant to be a sole means of providing for ones dietary needs. Just like social security and every other completely flawed entitlement it was meant as a supplement. But it todays world of "it not my fault" and 'somebody owes me' mentality they treat all these welfare programs as a constiututional right. I love how the article refers to how these people living on food stamps "have no choice" The Christian Science Monitor reprted last week that the wall had finally been breached: 52% of 'so-called' Americans are receiving some type of handout from the government. We have become a modern day Roman Empire where those who can and do, are forced to provide for those who should but won't!

[dallison7]

The Bush administration has proposed several cuts to the program, among them taking away food stamps from about 185,000 people who qualify only because they receive other non-cash government assistance. The Department of Agriculture budget, as proposed, would also eliminate a program that gives boxes of food to nearly half a million seniors each month.


THIS IS DISGUSTING!!

Republicans are truly the personification of evil on this plant. They love to say things like "He made the choice to be in that situation", when referring to the homeless or the poverty stricken. Nevermind that there are people who have no control of their lot in life.

How can it be more compassionate to spend billion$ on a war than to help care for our brothers and sisters who are hungry and sick? How can Bush call himself a 'Christian'?

Hell was built for republicans.