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be a budget his out
the budget was passed by congress this austerity budget
and it does not include an extension of long-term unemployment benefits
because the republicans are calling that basically welfare and they're saying
that the only way that they want these long-term unemployment benefits to be
paid to
to be distributed to people is benefits ran out three days after Christmas
you know where they want these benefits be distributed to people is
if we cut somebody else let's talk about america's real welfare queens
Republicans are all upset of people get government benefits but our nation's
real welfare queens
are this country's billionaires and its biggest corporations
but first let's look at who the republicans want to think about when
they use slurs like welfare queen
back in November the largest cuts the history
other federal food stamp program here which is seen a snap the Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance Program
large cuts in history went into effect and thanks to the efforts of republicans
5
billion dollars slash from the program
directly affecting the lives of 47
million Americans but that wasn't enough
right republicans are still convinced america's filled with people
would rather live off government assistance then get a job
and they're still convinced the cutting food stamps will help solve the nation's
spending and debt problem so they try to cut even more from food stamps
I mean right now Congress is working on a compromise the farm bill
which thanks to republicans will likely cut billions more from food stamps
and leave millions of additional Americans without access to the
nutrition that they need to survive for at least
be healthy but here's our republicans
art telling you in 2012
last year well here before us now the average American taxpayer
last year we've got numbers for the average American taxpayer making fifty
grand a year
paid $36 dollars in taxes for the food stamp program
10 cents a day but the average household in america pays
so that all across this country people can have access to food stamps
now compare that to the fact that an average American family making fifty
thousand dollars a year pays
a whopping 6 thousand dollars a year
in subsidies to Republican friendly corporations
that's incredible we should be a and I need to do the map and how much
is that per day 6,000 divided by 365
I can't do math in my head that fast anyway it's a lot
so who is really causing our nation's economic problems
its
the welfare queens the corporation's though clearly points out over common
dreams you can read over there today
it he points at the Cato Institute of all places estimates the federal
subsidies to corporations cost americans nearly a hundred billion dollars a year
and the state local level state local governments
and another $80 billion dollars in subsidies this is according to Louise
story over the New York Times
shell Ford Chrysler the cup biggest companies America
every see more than a billion dollars each in state and local governments
and then there are the indirect subsidies taxpayer money that
indirectly benefits corporations researchers at the University only
and University California Berkeley found that American taxpayers pay a staggering
243 billion dollars a year
in indirect subsidies just to the fast food industry
that's because the fast food industry pay such low wages that we the people
are handing over to 143 billion dollars
to pay for the health care and and food stamps now all the other public benefits
a fast-food workers
meanwhile our tax code has been written a favor the billionaires the
corporation's after all they're the ones who can afford to buy the politicians
write the tax code
and that tax code saves corporations an average of two hundred billion dollars
every year while you and I have to pick up the slack
this is that same tax code that lets giant corporations like Apple and GE
hide their money in corporate tax even so that they don't have to
pay their fair share
in corporate america is getting new handouts from the government on a
routine basis
Boston Globe likely looked at a tax legislation was passed by congress the
first few months a 2013
and they found that that legislation contained 43
corporate friendly tax breaks worth around 67
billion dollars
compare all that money corporations are getting to the five billion that has
already been pulled out a food stamps
and the $40 billion in additional money for food stamps the republicans want to
take out
they could easily pay for the entire food stamp program just by closing water
to the smaller loopholes the past tax expenditures
our government checks along to the top one percent and the nation's biggest
corporations
no doubt about it food stamps are bankrupting America
the never-ending profit pipeline between capitol hill in corporate america is
so Republicans are welfare queens what they're really talking about other
buddies the big banks big oil giant transnational corporations
and it is time to cut of that corporate welfare pipeline
and use those billions of dollars to help our economy recover
and help those Americans who need it the most