SNAP is a critical anti-hunger program that feeds millions of low income Americans, including children, veterans, and seniors who would not otherwise have the resources to buy groceries.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I strongly support SNAP and will continue to urge my colleagues in Congress to provide adequate funding to this important program.
Every dollar of SNAP benefits generates $1.84 in the economy in terms of economic activity. If people are able to buy a little more in the grocery store, someone has to stock it, package it, shelve it, process it, ship it. All of those are jobs. It's the most direct stimulus you can get in the economy during these tough times.
I want to see the farm piece passed, but the nearly a trillion dollars in SNAP spending for food stamps is way too much.
Food stamps are an investment in our future.
Why do we need to support the food stamp program? Because low-income families experience unemployment at a far higher rate than other income groups. Because cutting nutritional assistance programs is immoral and shortsighted, and protecting families from hunger improves their health and educational outcomes.
I know some of you don't care about food stamps, but I'm telling you if it feeds children, you do care about it.
Hunger is a political issue, and there are several things politically that are keeping people hungry - not funding food stamps adequately, not funding school lunches adequately. So there is a political solution to the problem of hunger.
In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.
Our nation's anti-hunger programs need to be strengthened.
They advertise on the radio for food stamps!
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