{"id":139905,"date":"2014-10-01T13:21:44","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T13:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=139905"},"modified":"2014-10-01T13:21:44","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T13:21:44","slug":"congress-cuts-8-7-billion-food-stamps-finds-22-billion-fight-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/money\/congress-cuts-8-7-billion-food-stamps-finds-22-billion-fight-isis\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Cuts $8.7 Billion in Food Stamps, But Finds $22 Billion to Fight ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was all the way back in February, so the memory of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/msnbc\/congress-passes-farm-bill-food-stamp-cuts\">this headline<\/a> has faded:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201d Congress passes $8.7 billion food stamp cut<\/p>\n<p>By Ned Resnikoff<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s official: 850,000 households across the country are set to lose an average of $90 per month in food stamp benefits.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate on Tuesday voted 68-32 to send the 2014 Farm Bill \u2014 which includes an $8.7 billion cut to food stamps \u2014 to President Obama\u2019s desk. Nine Democrats opposed the bill, and 46 members of the Democratic caucus voted for it, joining 22 Republicans.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The GOP Congress\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juancole.com\/2013\/11\/republicans-elephants-children.html\">assault on the American working class<\/a> has been waged with the pretext that the Federal government has no money (what with being in debt and all).<\/p>\n<p>This despite the money being owed to the American people on the whole, and despite the long tradition of deficits in government budgets, which have seldom in history been balanced. But note that when there was a Republican president in the zeroes, the same voices did not demand austerity, but ran up the deficit with obvious glee.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/views\/2014\/10\/01\/congress-cuts-87-billion-food-stamps-finds-22-billion-fight-isis\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was all the way back in February, so the memory of this headline has faded: \u201d Congress passes $8.7 billion food stamp cut By Ned Resnikoff It\u2019s official: 850,000 households across the country are set to lose an average of $90 per month in food stamp benefits. The Senate on Tuesday voted 68-32 to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,52],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-139905","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-money"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}