Heroes: House votes to cut food stamp budget by 3%

Here is a quick way to determine if you lean Democrat or lean Republican. Democrats want to get more people on food stamps and increase government dependance. Republicans want to get people off food stamps and increase self-sufficiency.

Via Breitbart:

The House voted on Wednesday to cut food stamps by $2 billion a year as part of a wide-ranging farm bill.

The chamber rejected 234-188 a Democratic amendment to the five-year, half-trillion-dollar farm legislation that would have maintained current spending on food stamps, now called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. The overall bill cuts the $80 billion-a-year program by about 3 percent and makes it harder for some people to qualify.

The food stamp cuts have complicated passage of the bill and its farm-state supporters were working to secure votes Wednesday. Many conservatives have said the food stamp cuts do not go far enough since the program has doubled in cost in the last five years and now feeds 1 in 7 Americans. Liberals have argued against any reductions, contending the House plan could take as many as 2 million needy recipients off the rolls. The White House has threatened a veto over the food stamp cuts.

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Republican Senator wants to cut Harry Reid's Cowboy Poetry Festival funding...

Dingy Harry isn't going to like this...

What to cut: $50,000 for a Cowboy Poetry Festival. $5M for sports diplomacy. $1M to taste test food on Mars. Think we can manage? #sequester
— Senator Pat Toomey (@SenToomey) February 28, 2013

Republicans propose $4 trillion in spending cuts

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This is a good start, but it still doesn't eliminate the deficit.

(Fox News) — The Republican chairman of the House Budget Committee said his party’s budget proposal for 2012 would cut deficits by more than $4 trillion over the next decade, vowing to tackle costly entitlements like Medicare and Medicaid.

The proposal, set to be unveiled Tuesday, would serve as the Republicans’ official response to President Obama’s proposed $3.7 trillion budget for 2012. The White House claims its plan would cut deficits by $1.1 trillion over a decade.