http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/02/25/dick-cheney-loves-war-hates-food-stamps.html
Appearing on Fox News’s “Hannity,” he said President Barack Obama “would rather spend the money on food stamps than he would on a strong military or support for our troops.
"To be clear, this is supposed to be an insult. If you were watching the interview, you were supposed to snort at the idea that you would use taxpayer dollars for food assistance, and not weapons.
Again, this isn’t so hard to understand if you grasp Cheney’s moral calculus. In his mind, America’s security is so threatened that wars, and high military spending, are always justified. At most, there’s more room for tax cuts, which for Cheney are always necessary. Food stamps—i.e. feeding poor people—are a lower priority, if they’re on the radar at all. And if tax cuts crowd out spending on food assistance, then it’s hard to see that the former vice president would have a problem with it.
What Cheney doesn’t seem to realize is that military families are key beneficiaries of food stamp spending. According to the Defense Department, military families spent more than $100 million in food stamps at military grocery stores last year. What’s more, in any given month, 900,000 veterans nationwide lived in households that relied on SNAP to provide food for their families. This is disgraceful—if you serve our country, your family should have enough to live on—but, for now, as it was during the Bush years, it's the status quo.
Which is to say this: Dick Cheney is happy to send men and women to war, but angry that they—or anyone else—would try to feed their families with government help."
I think Dick should just stick to what he does best, shooting lawyers.
Appearing on Fox News’s “Hannity,” he said President Barack Obama “would rather spend the money on food stamps than he would on a strong military or support for our troops.
"To be clear, this is supposed to be an insult. If you were watching the interview, you were supposed to snort at the idea that you would use taxpayer dollars for food assistance, and not weapons.
Again, this isn’t so hard to understand if you grasp Cheney’s moral calculus. In his mind, America’s security is so threatened that wars, and high military spending, are always justified. At most, there’s more room for tax cuts, which for Cheney are always necessary. Food stamps—i.e. feeding poor people—are a lower priority, if they’re on the radar at all. And if tax cuts crowd out spending on food assistance, then it’s hard to see that the former vice president would have a problem with it.
What Cheney doesn’t seem to realize is that military families are key beneficiaries of food stamp spending. According to the Defense Department, military families spent more than $100 million in food stamps at military grocery stores last year. What’s more, in any given month, 900,000 veterans nationwide lived in households that relied on SNAP to provide food for their families. This is disgraceful—if you serve our country, your family should have enough to live on—but, for now, as it was during the Bush years, it's the status quo.
Which is to say this: Dick Cheney is happy to send men and women to war, but angry that they—or anyone else—would try to feed their families with government help."
I think Dick should just stick to what he does best, shooting lawyers.
