Tea Party leaving veterans without food, or coffee or tea

Mistreating The Military-Nearly One Million Veterans To Suffer The Pain Of Food Stamp Cutbacks
Forbes
Rick Ungar
October 30, 2013

In just two days, the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP)— better known as food stamps—will experience a drop in benefits as the boost provided as a result of the 2009 stimulus bill expires.

Clearly, this comes as good news to the many Americans who believe that the food assistance program has grown out of control, allowing many low-income Americans to ‘scam” the taxpayers by using our tax dollars to feed their children at government expense.

One wonders, however, if the millions of Americans who are so pleased to see food stamp benefits lowered—with more cuts likely to come— understand the impact this will have on a segment of society that one would be loathe to call ‘freeloaders’ seeking to live on the largesse of their country?
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That would be the 900,000 veterans who offered up their lives for their country only to return home to find employment exceedingly difficult to come by—thereby creating the need for food stamps to provide for their families.

Food stamp cuts for veterans ‘unacceptable’ and ‘revolting’