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workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
Sun May 28, 2017, 09:54 AM May 2017

GOP Congressman Declines To Say Whether Every American Is Entitled To Eat

GOP Congressman Declines To Say Whether Every American Is Entitled To Eat
Daniel Marans HuffPostMay 27, 2017

Rep. Adrian Smith (R-Neb.) refused to say whether “every American is entitled to eat” and the food stamps program is the best way to ensure that they have the food they need.

NPR’s Scott Simon interviewed Smith on Saturday about the farm bill and President Donald Trump’sproposed cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as food stamps. In the president’s budget, the White House is seeking $193 billion in cuts to SNAP over 10 years, an amount equal to more than one-quarter of the program’s cost over that period.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-congressman-declines-whether-every-173031436.html

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GOP Congressman Declines To Say Whether Every American Is Entitled To Eat (Original Post) workinclasszero May 2017 OP
A real turd. MFM008 May 2017 #1
Maybe the DNC needs to start running negative ads now? 33taw May 2017 #2
I question whether Smith Hayduke Bomgarte May 2017 #3
So let's recap folks workinclasszero May 2017 #4
 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
4. So let's recap folks
Sun May 28, 2017, 10:52 AM
May 2017

Republicans think Americans have no right to health care, no right to eat food, no right for shelter, no right to a living wage, no right to a government that gives a shit about them in any way and women in particular have no rights over their own bodies at all.

From The Declaration of Independence

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

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