House panel votes $844 mln cut in food stamps {And many kids will lose their free meals at school.]

House panel votes $844 mln cut in food stamps - Yahoo! News

This is wrong, plain wrong. I hope the Senate doesn't pass this.

I've had the unhappy experience of being a food-stamp recipient for a short period in my past. Believe me - it's no give-away. You have to be really broke and without resources to qualify. The three adults in our household only received $300/month total. How fancy can you feed three adults on $300/month? Yes, you wind up eating too many carbs, and get real tired of beans and chunk tuna. This is no give-away, folks. Not in our abundant country.

Quotes from the article:

A new Agriculture Department report found 38.2 million Americans 'were food insecure' in 2004, an increase of nearly 2 million from the previous year. Tufts University food economist Parke Wilde food insecurity 'now equals the worst levels' since recordkeeping began a decade ago.

USDA said 11.9 percent of households, 'at some time during the year, had difficulty providing enough food for all their members due to a lack of resources.'"

North Dakota Democrat Earl Pomeroy complained that 40,000 children would lose free meals at school because of that provision.

"You have not even come clean that kids are going to lose school breakfast and school lunch under this," he said.