Food Security at Risk in America

Here is the deal.  The House Republicans really need to have some housecleaning in the midterm elections, and the people who benefit from various aspects of what used to be a fairly decent but not extravagent safety net need to get out and vote.  That is the only way this is going to change.  They need to lose their seats in Congress, or we will be a country with an ever increasing gap between those who are making it and those who will soon be starving, or at the very least spending all their money on food, so that they can not buy other things, like heat and clothes.

Why now?  The House Republicans have been dysfunctional for quite some time now.  They have the lowest approval rating in I don't know how long, and they are the least productive Congress as well.  Sadly this did not result in a substantive change in the 2012 election as it relates to the House. 

This is at least in part due to the fact that some of the people who voted for Republicans in the last election are the very people who are harmed most by their policies.  So that needs to change.  We can't defeat them without the people who are at the very bottom of the economic ladder.

What got me going is that the House Republicans are now proposing to gut food stamps program, or what is now known as SNAP. Look at the use of SNAP since the recession began--use of food stamps has doubled.  The monthly benefit is modest in terms of dollars--

the Congressmen in favor of this are very unlikely to be able to eat on the amount being afforded people living in poverty.  Their per diem for food when they travel is at least 13 times what someone on food stamps is receiving, and yet they are not objecting to this.  For every dollar spent on SNAP, the economy gets $1.70 back--we need people, especially children, to be fed, and we need them to be clothed, and be educated.  That is not a luxury  item.

 It is the meanness of their policies that angers me, their self-righteousness and their lack of morality that saddens me, and the fact that without the help of voters who are affected, there is not much to be done about them.