Huffington Post:
...In a bill released Monday, Republicans proposed cutting $832 million – or 12 percent – from this year's budget for the federal nutrition program that provides food for low-income mothers and children. The 2012 budget proposal for food and farm programs also includes a decrease of almost $457 million, or 31 percent, from an international food assistance program that provides emergency aid and agricultural development dollars to poor countries.
The legislation would provide $71 billion for food stamps, $2 billion less than the Obama administration projected would be necessary for next year.....
....Hunger advocates have warned against stripping those programs of those reserves. Two analysts from the liberal research and advocacy group Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Zoe Neuberger and Robert Greenstein, said Monday that the cuts could mean turning away as many as 475,000 people from the Women, Infants and Children program if food prices continue to rise.
Almost 9 million low-income mothers and children participate in the WIC program....
It might be time for Boehner to wise up and notice that cuts to WIC and food programs for the poor will reduce the health and well-being of many people.
>>>> Here are some statistics to make you wonder if we don't have too many lobbyists in Ohio....
Ohio JLEC-OLIG:
| Legislative | Executive | Retirement | |
| Registered Agents | 1332 | 988 | 122 |
| Registered Employers | 1370 | 1279 | 63 |
| Total Engagements | 3363 | 2988 | 133 |
With statistics like that, you know someone is making out on these deals. Following the story in the Dispatch that indicates that Kasich's buddies are very popular, you wonder how much influence these lobbyists have with various parts of the state government. How many lobbyists are providing written legislation that favors their clients? I have a feeling that when Kasich's term is over, we will find the state government has been privatized, cut, and re-organized to such a degree that citizens won't recognize it.