SNAP Cuts Mean Credit Card Debt Surge, Not Defense Cuts
Newsweek's headline, 'America Could See Surge in Credit Card Debt as SNAP Lapses,' spotlights the financial cliff millions face. What it doesn't mention is the budget priorities that ensured those benefits 'lapsed.' While families scrape by on ever-thinning budgets, the military-industrial complex continues to rake in billions. In the same fiscal year that SNAP was cut for 30 million Americans by
$90 per month, Congress approved a defense budget topping $886 billion—a figure few mainstream outlets link to domestic starvation. (Funny how 'fiscal responsibility' always applies to feeding the poor, never funding endless wars.) So, while families max out their credit cards on groceries, remember who decided those 'lapsed' funds were better spent elsewhere. The Pentagon's budget could cover
SNAP benefits multiple times over, yet here we are. It appears poverty is a greater national security threat than perpetual war, at least judging by its domestic consequences. But don't worry, the credit card companies are doing just fine.