Todays news from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.): House Cuts Food Stamps: House Republicans on Thursday voted to cut nearly $40 billion from nutrition programs over a decade and push 4 million Americans off food stamps beginning next year. Sen. Bernie Sanders called the 217-to-210 vote “beyond shameful.” The United States, he added in an interview on MSNBC, “cannot go to war against people who are struggling to keep their heads above water.” The vote dashed hopes for passage this year of a new five-year farm bill. Government Shutdown: Looms House Republicans are prepared to dismember the United States government and wreak havoc on the lives of tens and tens of millions of people,” Sen. Sanders said on WCAX-TV. They believe, in fact, that a government shutdown is not necessarily a bad thing because they don’t believe much in government, Sanders said on The Ed Schultz Show. More Cuts Coming: Even if a shutdown is averted, the House resolution to keep the government running would freeze in place cuts that are $70 billion below the figure agreed to in prior negotiations, according to The Huffington Post. Sen. Sanders listed some of the effects of sequestration: 57,000 children knocked off Head Start; tens of thousands of seniors dropped from Meals on Wheels; cuts to housing assistance for the elderly and disabled; work-study programs cut for 70,000 college students; cancer patients losing Medicare treatments, and 400,000 elderly and other low-income households losing heating assistance this winter. Tax Scam: Sen. Sanders is among 12 senators calling on the Justice Department to investigate tax-lien programs that in Washington, D.C. alone have cost dozens of families their homes. A Washington Post investigation found that investors bought tax liens and then charged homeowners legal fees and other costs that far exceeded the original tax bills. When homeowners were unable to pay, the investors foreclosed. One 95-year-old woman, Daisy Dolsey, lost a $300,000 house that had been in her family for half a century over a $44.79 tax debt. Continue reading here: sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/newswatch/092013
Posted on: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 13:37:24 +0000
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