Jeremy Everett: The TT Interview
Congress is considering proposals to cut spending on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as food stamps, by up to $16.5 billion nationally.
If federal lawmakers slash SNAP spending, the Texas Food Bank Network says, more than 300,000 Texans receiving benefits would be pushed off the rolls, and measures passed by the Legislature in 2001 to encourage recipients to become financially stable would be undone.
The Texas Hunger Initiative within the Baylor University School of Social Work estimates that more than 4.2 million Texans are at risk of hunger or food insecurity, which the U.S ...
Comments (5)
Tim Starry via Texas Tribune on Facebook
That would funding that we pay for in income tax and fees...our sovereign state of Texas isn't saving us any money
Dave Mundy via Texas Tribune on Facebook
yes, comrades, let us suck on the "federal teat" a little harder so we all grow more dependent.
INDEPENDENCE. NOW.
audrey fisher
The real question is whether this is anything more than a demo project / plan. As with many of the RPerry demo plans, there is a hidden catch, hidden deep within the legislation - for a reason. Talk is cheap, a lot cheaper than actual food.
Anytime TT allows the individual talk in "vague numbers" it is an insult to the intelligence of the reader's here. "his statement" - appetite for fed is low - is a GOP / TP agenda....why did TT let it pass without challenge?
Then there are folks like the first comment, we will do it ourselves - which is pie in the sky: Talk is cheap.
Would he care if children die? Does he know or care that lack of food is related to education.
Sounds like a true TPer who cares about a singular entity or group and don't give a hoot about other's.
Ken Kolter via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I think there are several points in this interview that could use much more clarification.
Karen Spivey-Cummings via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Texas is not independent. We just do not serve our poor, disabled or elderly adequately in Texas. But, we sure can dole out taxpayer money to Perry's cronies/contributors and wealthy Corporations who don't need welfare but demand it or they will act like spoiled children and take their toys and leave. We are held hostage because Rick Perry and the Texas legislature allow this to happen.