Starve the poor, feed the Pentagon

Posted for Will Parry

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          The Republicans’ 2012 Agriculture Appropriations Bill might well be called the “Let Them Forage in Dumpsters” Act. 

          Their budget would slash $800 million from the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program; $38 million from the Commodity Supplemental Food  Program (CSFP) that helps feed 600,000 low-income mostly senior families each month; and $63 million from the Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP), that supports the nation’s food banks.

          Even as they make confetti of basic nutrition programs, the Republicans’ budget would increase military spending by $17 billion, an amnount that could restore the cuts in all three food programs eighteen times over.