Please add your name to the petition and speak out against allowing Americans to go hungry:
Last week, the House voted to drastically slash food stamps. So now the House and the Senate will barter over how much of a cut is acceptable.
Let's be clear. This isn't the difference between building a bridge or not, or adding a few more kids to a classroom or public funding for one more police officer. This is food. This is life. This is the difference between a single mother being able to feed her kids or pay the rent. This is the difference between feeding children and starving children... in America.
The impact is harsh, immediate and cruel.
With all of Congress agreeing to cuts, we are left with only one option. We need a Food Stamp President.
Demand President Obama veto any cuts to food stamps.
Like most of us, I have swallowed one compromise after another in the same way I swallow liquid cold medicine. It tastes and feels awful but the temporary relief promised is better than the suffering. With these cuts, there will be no relief, only more suffering.
The recession isn't over for low and middle income families. We haven't created enough living wage jobs. These cuts do almost nothing to buy us out of the deficit. And all the while, we are passing out money to corporations like it's candy on Halloween. Real people with real need have been abandoned by Congress.
It's disgusting and wrong.
President Obama has the opportunity to be the moral center we need right now -- a unifying figure who can draw a definite line in the sand over important life and death issues. Someone, who instead of running away when Republicans call him the Food Stamp President, embraces it. Let's make sure he knows that we do not accept food stamp cuts. Not here. Not ever.
Tell President Obama to draw a line in the sand.
I don't need to know what hunger feels like to know that I never want anyone to feel it. To know, that if I can help, I will. I expect the same of my president.
Thank you for all that you do.
- Monique
Monique Teal, Campaign Manager
Democracy for America
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