food stamps

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House Budget Committee Chair Rep. Diane Black, R-Tenn. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. House Republicans on, July 18, 2017, unveiled a budget that makes deep cuts in food stamps and other social safety net programs while boosting military spending by billions. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)
House Republicans on Tuesday unveiled a budget that proposes trillions of dollars in cuts to the social safety net and other domestic programs while sharply boosting military spending, a blueprint that elicited criticism from conservatives and moderates.

Spending for food stamps has almost quadrupled over the last two decades and the health outcomes for recipients have been terrible. There are hungry children and adults in this nation but carpet-bombing people with subsidized calories causes collateral damage.

Government does everything possible to rope people into the role of dependency. Whether it is student loans, Obamacare, or just guilt tripping us all to love the highways and glorious national defense we get for our tax dollars, we are supposed to feel forever on the hook, forever grateful and beholden to our masters. Forever indentured. This is not the attitude of a free people.

In this May 4, 2017, photo, President Trump talks to House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis. in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, after the House pushed through a health care bill. (AP/Evan Vucci)
President Donald Trump’s budget would drive millions of people off of food stamps, part of a new wave of spending cut proposals that already are getting panned by lawmakers in both parties on Capitol Hill.

Recent reports show that the United States is one of the most obese nations in the world. A 2015 report commission by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development found that the US “has the fattest kids by a wide margin and is tops in poor health for teenagers.” But one wonders if public spending is what is partly fueling the obesity epidemic.

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The White House would not confirm or deny the authenticity of the orders.

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Going into 2017, the Christian Science Monitor reminded its readers that boosting low wages has become less controversial as conservatives looked elsewhere to inflict their deadly ideology on working families.