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Santorum: We Don’t Need Food Stamps Because Obesity Rates Are So High

Submitted by YumYum on Thu, 12/08/2011 - 21:39
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"Speaking in Le Mars, Iowa on Monday, Rick Santorum promised to significantly reduce federal funding for food stamps, arguing that the nation’s increasing obesity rates render the program unnecessary:

Santorum told the group he would cut the food stamp program, describing it as one of the fastest growing programs in Washington, D.C.

Forty-eight million people are on food stamps in a country with 300-million people, said Santorum.

“If hunger is a problem in America, then why do we have an obesity problem among the people who we say have a hunger program?” Santorum asked."

full article: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2011/12/07/383788/santorum-w...


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Submitted by rp4pres on Thu, 12/08/2011 - 21:51.

That's funny.

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