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Toyota

Since the Dilly, Dally, Delay & Stall Law Firms are adding their billable hours, the Toyota U.S.A. and Route 44 Toyota posts have been separated here:

Route 44 Toyota Sold Me A Lemon



Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Daily Kos: Massachusetts does us PROUD!, Kansas moves to legalize police retaliation, Want to build an F-rated charter school? WITHOUT approval? Only in Florida, FACTS about Obamacare, ...phew!

Define political parties however you choose...if you can look at yourself in the mirror after slashing FOOD STAMPS for CHILDREN, you're morally bankrupt!

If you're proud of that R next to your name and defend this action, just maybe you haven't been paying attention.


Massachusetts becomes the latest state to piss off John Boehner by blocking food stamp cuts

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick smiles in the Boston Red Sox dugout before MLB American League baseball action between the Red Sox and the Kansas City Royals at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts April 20, 2013. REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi
attribution: Reuters
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick
 
Add Massachusetts to the list of states House Speaker John Boehner thinks are cheating because they're following the law as they move to block food stamp cuts. Massachusetts follows a series of states in acting entirely within the new law to thwart the congressional Republican push to cut nutrition assistance:
Under the plan announced by Gov. Deval Patrick, the state will provide at least $20 in heating assistance to about 163,000 eligible families, which in turn will make those families eligible for an additional $80 a month in Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program — formerly known as Food Stamps.

Administration officials said the move would prevent a loss of $142 million in SNAP benefits. [...]


The Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development, which administers the federal Low Income Heating Assistance Program will use federal funding to provide the $3 million needed to increase the benefit, according to a spokesman for the agency.
Such state actions, which have also been announced in New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Montana, mean that a significant percentage of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program cuts recently passed by Congress have been blocked. That said:
If you live in one of the eight remaining states where low-income Americans are still facing the threat of food stamp cuts—California, Delaware, Maine, Michigan, New Jersey, Vermont, Washington, or Wisconsin—then click here to sign and send a petition directly to your governor, urging him to take the appropriate action to restore food stamp funding.

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