Political Quotes

“Thank you, Senator Stabenow, and thank you for introducing this bill and your leadership on all issues agriculture, especially the importance of SNAP and feeding people. This is the United States of America. One specific thing Senator Stabenow said that really caught me was, it is pretty simple: People should have a roof over their head, and people should have food on the table. Think if you don't. I don't think that probably most of us know, intimately, people who don't have enough to eat and people who get evicted. I don't think we feel the anxiety they feel every night, wondering about the next meal. Today is July 1, wondering about the rent payment. Senator Klobuchar said this earlier today; that before the coronavirus, 25 percent of Americans who rent spend more than half their income in rent. So if one thing goes wrong in their life--one thing goes wrong: their car breaks down; they have a problem and their roof leaks; their child gets sick; they get hurt on the job and miss 2 weeks of pay, their life turns upside down. Do we think about them? Do we think about their anxiety? Apparently not. Today, this could have been a really, really, really good day for workers in this country--for fast-food workers, for the people who change the linen in hospitals, for custodians, for data entry people, for home care workers--people who are on their feet all day long working for little pay. It could have been a big-deal day.…”