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NPR Smears Food Stamp Program

NPR News at 7 am: w/o context, it says cost of food stamp program has doubled since 2008. But that’s because more Americans are poor, not due to government waste. Another way they contribute to the right-wing agenda.

Ted Rall
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Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication, WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "The Stringer."

2 Comments.

  • michaelwme
    June 20, 2013 5:33 PM

    Forty years ago, some friends found they were eligible for food stamps. They had to hand over most of their cash, but got more food than they could eat.

    Inflation has greatly reduced the real value of SNAP.

    Volunteers who tried to live on what SNAP provides lost weight.

    And now, Congress and Obama are proposing to abolish SNAP and let those people starve.

    And this is progress under a liberal Democratic president.

    So voting for another party, or not voting, seems out of the question?

  • Glenn
    June 20, 2013 11:06 PM

    Reagan tried to cut food stamps so as to further squeeze the life out of the people the capitalist system couldn’t make money out of employing.

    The Reagan cut didn’t happen because the Agriculture lobby screamed that it would hurt their profits.

    As much as Reagan hated the little people, he had a soft spot for the fat cats, and couldn’t let them down.

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