Federally Funded Friday – Top 1% Get $850Bn While GOP Votes to Starve the Poor

Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill the poor!  

That's what they were singing in the Republican side of the United States of America's House of Representatives (that's right, YOUR representives, carrying out YOUR will in YOUR name) as 216 Congresspeople (all Republicans) defeated 196 Democrats and 12 Republicans whe didn't think that passing a farm bill with ZERO food stamp money was going to be a good idea.  

That's right (and I know it sounds like an insane plot to a movie about society gone mad) the GOP actually took Food Stamps out of the Farm bill – effectively de-funding a program that feeds 47M Americans (the bottom 15%).  Fortunately, we still have a Democratic President and the White House has vowed to veto the bill, rather than simply cutting off food to 47M human beings at the end of the month.  A statement released overnight said that the food stamp program "is a cornerstone of our nation's food assistance safety net, and should not be left behind as the rest of the Farm Bill advances." 

"It's all about denying the working poor the right to food," Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., claimed, accusing Republicans of attacking "poor people." 

Now, before you say "Oh Phil, stop being such a Liberal, the Republicans are only trying to save some money" – let's consider that the United States spent $74Bn on food stamps last year.  This money, of course, goes right back to the local economy and helps keep your favorite grocery store open (well, maybe not Whole Foods, but the normal ones) and that creates jobs for grocery people and farmers, etc – which is why it's part of the FARM BILL!   

Sure we might want to shave $74Bn off our Governments $3,000,000,000,000 budget as that's a whopping 2.4% but just the other day, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve said he will continue giving $85,000,000,000 PER MONTH to Bankers, which they then use to pump up the markets which, unfortunately, makes food (a commodity) more expensive.  How sick is that?  

This ATROCITY is being carried out in YOUR name, by YOUR Representatives (if they are Republican) and if YOU don't let them know that…