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Insistent that the Farm Bill be amended to punish poor and disabled people has resulted in the Tea Party Occupied House killing another bi-partisan farm bill. It bodes ill for the immigration bill, which the Tea Partiers will surely also kill.
This is the future of the GOP: the party that blocks any bill that doesn't punish poor people. Perfect.
Food Stamp Cuts Derail Farm Bill
Of the poison pill the House teabaggers put in the bill, "Smarmy" Jack Kingston proclaimed:
This is the future of the GOP: the party that blocks any bill that doesn't punish poor people. Perfect.
Food Stamp Cuts Derail Farm Bill
Of the poison pill the House teabaggers put in the bill, "Smarmy" Jack Kingston proclaimed:
"We cannot continue to deny able-bodied people the dignity of work," said Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.). "There seems to be a belief in the nanny state that there's something wrong with requiring abled-bodied people to work. That's what this amendment does."
The idea was to make more SNAP beneficiaries sign up for training programs on pain of losing benefits. But Democrats noted there was no funding for training, and that it included parents of young children and even many disabled people. Nor did it place any restrictions on how states could use the money they saved, allowing them to shift