Guns Or Butter?

The Republicans of course choose guns, and want to throw 3 million Americans off food stamps and cut benefits for tens of millions more because we need to fight more scraggly terrorists with mutli-billion dollar super planes and all the cruise missiles the military-industrial complex can crap out.

Republicans controlling the House are eying big cuts to food stamps and would make it more difficult for illegal immigrants to claim child tax credits as they piece together legislation to cut $261 billion in the coming decade.

It's the first step in a GOP exercise aimed at cutting domestic programs to forestall big Pentagon budget cuts next year.

The cuts to food stamps would reduce the monthly benefit for a family of four by almost $60 and would force up to 3 million people off the program altogether by tightening eligibility.

The measure would also eliminate a grant program to states for social services like day care. Six House panels are producing legislation this week as the first step in implementing the GOP's budget plan.

So vote Republican, America, and all those poor welfare queens will magically disappear.  Starvation does that, you know.  We can't afford food for the poor, but damn can we make spiff ass air superiority fighters!