I am not talking about stewardship cuts because those do create local jobs and you can keep some of that money, quite frankly, in the forests for other projects but I am talking about the green timber sales.
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Well, the House Agriculture appropriations talked about an 18 percent cut to our budget, so you can do the math.
If you raise the minimum wage, you would reduce the SNAP population by a significant amount.
There is no doubt that there are many, many, many working poor, working poor with an emphasis on working.
If you take SNAP and you reduce it or you eliminate it, you are obviously going to impact not just the poor families that are receiving it.
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