Food Stamps Cut to Feed the Rich

Ezra Klein has a great piece on the recent cut in Food Stamp benefits. They were cut to help pay for Medicare and prevent the firing of teachers. It's a tough decision, but not compared to some of the other options that could be available.

"Bernie Sanders put up an amendment last month to cut about $35 billion in oil and gas subsidies. It failed. Republicans are arguing to extend Bush's tax cuts for the rich with no offsets, and they may well succeed. But food assistance for poor families? You can get the votes to slash those."

 Which is extremely ridiculous because, as he points out, food stamp spending is  the most reliable and cost efficient methods of economic stimulus.