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From the New York Post:

As you dig into your Butterball with all the trimmings this Thanksgiving, remember that millions of famished schoolkids around America may be forced to forgo classic turkey — and chow down instead on vegan black-bean patties and organic locavore quinoa salad.

On Nov. 1, sizable cuts were gouged into the federal food-stamp program (or, as it’s now called, SNAP, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), which feeds 47.6 million people, or nearly one in six Americans. In the city, 1.9 million folks get the bulk of their Jell-O and Campbell’s Soup from stamps.

But news has spread among the poor, like leafy green vegetables, that it wasn’t heartless Republicans who triggered the cuts.

Rather, some of the food-stamp cash was snatched to pay for Michelle Obama’s pet project, Let’s Move. What?

It’s come to this. Some 76 million meals a year will vanish from this city — poof! — partly because the president diverted money from SNAP to the first lady’s signature program, part of her Let’s Move anti-obesity initiative — the bean-sprout-heavy, $4.5 billion Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act.

The rest of the $5 billion annual food-stamp cuts was taken when 2009 stimulus funds dried up. But with ObamaCare woes stealing the oxygen in Washington, there’s little urgency to replace dandelion greens served on recyclable trays with family-friendly buttered mashed potatoes.

Of course, with the Demonrats, the facts don't matter, only who published them.

Read the rest:

http://nypost.com/2013/11/11/obama-take ... s-project/

Obama has a solution, chicken from China.

Wow, funds taken from SNAP will be used to provide food for children in a program where the funds can't be used for cookies, soda, and other non-nutritional foods. In other words, the funds will still be used to feed those in need, but will restrict what foods one can get from the program to insure that they are nutritional and not contributing to obesity and further are more directly targeted for children. Further, the funds come out of the portion of the SNAP that was allocated by the economic stimulus and will disappear at the end of the stimulus program in 2-3 years leaving SNAP funding at it's previous level. This stimulus money portion of SNAP has been being raided by Congress (Republicans and Democrats) for some time to make up critical budget deficits in mandatory spending that were created by the sequester and the total failure of the Republican House to pass a real rational budget. Yes, we arer all tired of the House Republican's, "My Way or the Highway" autocracy.

Brilliant observation Dildo. Take away food they want and replace it with food that will be thrown out, as seen in school lunch programs where Moo-chelle's scheme has been implemented.

This is the liberal way: Results don't matter, only good intentions count.