Food Stamps Cut Become Law

Following up on the theme from yesterday, Congress has enacted the latest Farm Bill, which besides huge subsidies to agribusiness conglomerates, also includes $8 billion in cuts to food stamps. This means that 850,000 families with nearly 2 million people will lose an average of $90/month in food assistance on top of an $11 billion cut in November that cost 48 million people an average of $38/month. (CNN Money) While those amounts might not sound like much, check how much you spend on food a month, cut the bill into four parts and then consider how much $90 a month buys. In any case, it is just the latest example of the “war on the poor” that has replaced the war on poverty of the 60s. I suppose it fits the new me generation, where 85 people own more than the poorest 3.5 billion people on the planet. (check out these 25 images from Daily Kos) But I’m sure they’re each worth 41 million people …