If John Boehner and his fellow members of the “Tea Party” House of Representatives intended to use devastating cuts to the federal food stamp program (SNAP) in order to make poor Americans go hungry, they are succeeding with flying colors.
As wealth inequality skyrockets and the working class struggles to lift itself from the smoldering ruins of the financial crisis and it’s accompanying economic recession, Tea Party extremists in the House and their Republican leaders continue to do the bidding of Wall Street and multinational corporations, ensuring an endless supply of desperate, hungry workers willing to work for poverty wages.
While the Republican Party encourages international banks and multinational corporations to keep scarfing down corporate welfare, their devastating cut to SNAP is causing food banks all across the country to struggle under the burden of ensuring a basic level of nutrition for America’s poor.
In this powerful segment, MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry talks with Natalie Jayroe, the President and CEO of Second Harvest Food Bank in the red state of Louisiana, about America’s hunger crisis and how the Republican Party’s indefensible cut to the federal food stamp program is making the problem much worse.
Please watch the video below and share this and other related articles on social media forums so that everyone will see the consequences of electing extremist Tea Party ideologues who work tirelessly to gut our social safety net.