Republican Senators Sign Pledge to Eliminate Food Stamp Program in 2015

[Davka]

One hundred percent of newly elected Republican Senators have agreed to vote to eliminate the food stamps program including;

Senators Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), David Perdue (R-Ga.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), James Lankford (R-Okla.), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), and Ben Sasse (R-Neb.).

“Small businesses and the American people cannot afford President Obama’s countless new regulations and tax increases. There is a right way and a wrong to improve our country’s welfare system, and the President’s policies just aren’t working. We need to put poor people first and lower costs,” Senator Gardner said in a statement.

Senator Perdue stated on his campaign website that he was one of the millions of Americans who would support free market solutions to feeding the nation.

“The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is an overreaching federal program that has actually worsened the nutritional standards in this nation and increased costs. I am one of the millions of Americans who wish this program would end. To make matters worse, SNAP benefits are discouraging full-time job creation. We need to repeal the SNAP program and replace it with more affordable free market solutions,” Perdue said on his campaign page.

The Senators signed a pledge to approve any legislation in 2015 that would completely defund the $78 billion program.

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Only these assholes could equate "putting poor people first" with cutting food stamps.

 

[Nice Squirrel]

Fake story.

 

[Davka]

Fake story.

Really? I tried snopes but came up blank - got a link to a debunk?

What's scary is that even if it's fake, it sounds like something that could really happen.

 

[dismal]

It's nice that we still have journalists like dailyleak.org to do the real work the major news media will not do.

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got a link to a debunk?

This one should do it:

http://dailyleak.org

 

[dismal]

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[Jimmy Higgins]

Just a single source, and the source isn't particularly reliable.

 

[Jolly_Penguin]

Why are they called "food stamps"?

It makes me think of stamps I can mail, and then eat.

 

[Nice Squirrel]

Why are they called "food stamps"?

It makes me think of stamps I can mail, and then eat.

They used to be coupons like green stamps.

 

[Keith&Co.]

Why are they called "food stamps"?

It makes me think of stamps I can mail, and then eat.

i did go to bootcamp with a guy that peeled the stamps off his mail, ate them, and threw the envelopes away, unopened.

You probably don't mean that, though.

 

[Jolly_Penguin]

Why are they called "food stamps"?

It makes me think of stamps I can mail, and then eat.

i did go to bootcamp with a guy that peeled the stamps off his mail, ate them, and threw the envelopes away, unopened.

You probably don't mean that, though.

That is awesome.

 

[funinspace]

LOL…I liked this gem:
http://dailyleak.org/2014/12/fexed-driver-commits-suicide-after-destroying-childrens-christmas/
“Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet just because there’s a picture with a quote next to it.” –Abraham Lincoln

 

[Davka]

Looks like i got trolled. It wouldn't surprise me a bit if they did sign a pledge like that, but this appears to be B.S. - all articles point back to a single source.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

LOL…I liked this gem:
http://dailyleak.org/2014/12/fexed-driver-commits-suicide-after-destroying-childrens-christmas/
“Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet just because there’s a picture with a quote next to it.” –Abraham Lincoln

My favorite quotes are:

"Stop misquoting me on Facebook!" - Thomas Jefferson

"Nobody ever quotes me." - Jefferson Davis

Looks like i got trolled. It wouldn't surprise me a bit if they did sign a pledge like that, but this appears to be B.S. - all articles point back to a single source.

It'd be damning if the newly elected Republicans in purple Iowa and Colorado actually did that. I was a bit surprised at the claim.

A little searching online seems to put the source of the article with a CNS article about the newly elected group having run on repealing Obamacare and that title/article was slightly modified.