THE FOOD STAMP program has been around awhile, since the great society of president johnson. Just the other day the increasingly conservative and uncooperative U.S. House of reps voted, by a very slim margin, the food stamp program out of existence. Pretty shocking stuff, even for republicans.
It'll be put back in though. The Senate and the president won't allow food stamps to perish; i would cause a national uproar, maybe even provide the spark to trigger what seems almost inevitable in america; a war between the rich and the poor.
Gore Vidal said he could remember riding in the back of his grandfather's limo as a very young child, his grandfather being senator gore from Oklahoma. As they made their way through the streets of washington D.C. the car was pelted by objects thrown by bonus army protestors, and vidal said that from that time forward, he was acutely aware of the simple fact that in the united states of america, a war between the rich and the poor is possible.
One possible scenario would be for the tea party to come to power, and eliminate every government program that provides economic assistance to people, including disability and unemployment. That right htere might be enough to start the fighting. And if they ever came to power, heaven forbid, don't doubt that the tea party would push a very social darwinistic agenda.
But for now, look for food stamps to get reinstated, and the tea party republicans to sneer disdainfully, and move on to another battle.
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