GOP: Let Them Dig For Peach Pits in Trash Bins -- Just Like The Rest of The Peasants Do . . .

Well this is pretty unsettling:

The House action that stripped food stamp funding from a massive farm bill would threaten vital assistance for about 5,000 military families, mostly from the junior enlisted ranks, Pentagon officials said Friday.

A Department of Agriculture report last year showed that more than 5,000 of the 48 million Americans receiving Supplementary Nutritional Assistance Program (food stamps) listed their employment status as "active duty military," the Pentagon officials said.

"Military members who receive SNAP tend to be made up of members in junior pay grades with larger than average household sizes," said Navy Lt. Cmdr. Nate Christensen, a Defense Department spokesman.

The 5,000 military families receiving food stamps was a tiny percentage of the 48 million recipients nationwide, but it was a major increase over the previous year when the Department of Agriculture reported that only 1,000 recipients listed "active duty military" as their employment status.

In addition, the Defense Commissary Agency reported that food stamps were being redeemed at base commissaries at a record pace.

Last year, $99 million in food stamps were cashed in at bases by military families, disabled vets and others with military identification, and more than $53 million in food stamps were cashed in this year through June, according to Defense Commissary Agency data provided to the Huffington Post.

The concerns over the threat of a food stamp funding cutoff were raised by the 218-208 vote in the House Thursday that passed a $500 billion farm bill that stripped out $80 billion in SNAP funding. It was the first time since 1973 that a farm bill failed to join farm subsidies and food stamp funding.

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2013/07/13/dod-5000-military-families-losing-food-stamps.html


Apparently our troops with large families, and who's base military pay is insufficient to meet their basic living needs aren't worthy of a little assistance, yet the GOP certainly made sure in their Farm bill that the welfare subsidies for the big, billion dollar agriculture corporations remained untouched.  Shows you who they really serve doesn't it?

Tell The Gadfly again dear conservative readers, how it is that your party's governing priorities aren't completely fucked up and toxic to America.



----TFG