Now, remember, the oil industry, largely as a result of Katrina (there's a special place in hell for people who profit from the suffering of others), has just made the largest profits ever recorded.
Then, take a look at
this story with the headline: House panel votes $844 mln cut in food stamps.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - On a party-line vote, a Republican-run U.S. House of Representatives committee voted to cut food stamps by $844 million on Friday, just hours after a new U.S. Agriculture Department report showed more Americans are struggling to put food on the table.
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Approved 25-20, the committee package now will become part of an omnibus budget-cutting bill.
Do not let the Fitzmas glee, and the glorious anticipation of what more we might expect to come down the pike, blind us to the fact the class war is still raging -- and the poor, under the repugs and this administration, are losing miserably!
Stay strong -- and don't let this horror get lost in the Friday afternoon news vacuum -- as it is likely to, especially on this particular big news day Friday!