- b.c.,
The article, featured in today's Yahoo News, is actually titled "How To Stick It To the Poor: A Congressional Strategy" (the title, no doubt an apparent effort at non-bias).
But only a cursory examination of the FACTS reveal that it is primarily the GOP who is the culprit here:
How to stick it to the poor: A congressional strategy
the details of which include:
"The 113th Congress has stuck it to the poor at pretty much every opportunity. In fact, if you take all their past and future plans into account, it looks like they have accomplished that rare feat: To close in on enacting an overarching, radical agenda without control of the Senate or the presidency."
"Congress will basically start kicking poor people out of their homes early next year. The idea is, if you can't pay for your home without government assistance, you don't deserve to live in one."
"Sequester cuts to the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) meant that 300,000 low-income families in 2013 were denied government support for energy costs."
"The recent reduction in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits has affected more than 47 million Americans and is the largest wholesale cut in the program since Congress passed the first Food Stamps Act in 1964."
"House Republicans are pushing to take $39 billion from SNAP over the next decade."
"...as a result of sequestration, Head Start literally had to kick preschoolers out of their classrooms this March and removed 57,000 children from the program this September (70,000 kids total are will be affected)..."
"...more than half of public schools have fired personnel due to the ominous cuts — and Representative Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said sequestration "has been one of the good things that has happened."
"People who have been out of work for 27 weeks or more — 40 percent of the unemployed — have already begun and will continue to lose a large portion of their benefits between January and March. Eight percent of this year's sequestration cuts are coming from unemployment insurance."
"...by the end of December, about 1.3 million will lose their extended jobless benefits if Congress doesn't renew the program."
Not all attributable to the GOP though. They've had some help from unlikely sources:
"President Obama put Social Security cuts in his budget for fiscal year 2014, and Republicans are thrilled."
But only a cursory examination of the FACTS reveal that it is primarily the GOP who is the culprit here:
How to stick it to the poor: A congressional strategy
the details of which include:
"The 113th Congress has stuck it to the poor at pretty much every opportunity. In fact, if you take all their past and future plans into account, it looks like they have accomplished that rare feat: To close in on enacting an overarching, radical agenda without control of the Senate or the presidency."
"Congress will basically start kicking poor people out of their homes early next year. The idea is, if you can't pay for your home without government assistance, you don't deserve to live in one."
"Sequester cuts to the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) meant that 300,000 low-income families in 2013 were denied government support for energy costs."
"The recent reduction in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits has affected more than 47 million Americans and is the largest wholesale cut in the program since Congress passed the first Food Stamps Act in 1964."
"House Republicans are pushing to take $39 billion from SNAP over the next decade."
"...as a result of sequestration, Head Start literally had to kick preschoolers out of their classrooms this March and removed 57,000 children from the program this September (70,000 kids total are will be affected)..."
"...more than half of public schools have fired personnel due to the ominous cuts — and Representative Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said sequestration "has been one of the good things that has happened."
"People who have been out of work for 27 weeks or more — 40 percent of the unemployed — have already begun and will continue to lose a large portion of their benefits between January and March. Eight percent of this year's sequestration cuts are coming from unemployment insurance."
"...by the end of December, about 1.3 million will lose their extended jobless benefits if Congress doesn't renew the program."
Not all attributable to the GOP though. They've had some help from unlikely sources:
"President Obama put Social Security cuts in his budget for fiscal year 2014, and Republicans are thrilled."