Posted on 10/26/2013 3:31:25 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
"..........Tanner’s report, “SNAP Failure: The Food Stamp Program Needs Reform,” finds that in 2000 the cost of the food stamp program was just $17 billion. It has risen in cost to $78 billion today.
Spending on advertising and outreach for food stamps by federal and state governments has also increased, now amounting to $41.3 million a year.
States like Florida have hired “food stamp recruiters,” who have a quota of signing up 150 new recipients each month. Rhode Island hosts “SNAP-themed bingo games,” and the USDA tells its field offices to throw parties to get more people on their rolls......"
Welfare, Not Full-Time Work, Is Now America’s No. 1 Occupation
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3083762/posts
Gee no lobster on Friday. Boohoo Boohoo. Maybe they will have to eat at McDonald’s.
Jack Kemp with 5X the brain power?
I can’t take this crap anymore. Whining and complaining about “free” money and a 5% cut.
dang
It’s not a cut. It’s the end of a temporary increase.
Actually, we'll all be drinking free BubbleUp and eating that rainbow stew...
There is absolutely no honesty in the MSM or any politicians
It's all about the children! Taxpayer money was used once again to pay street solicitors (drug dealers) to sign people up (drug users) for food stamps. They have created a senario that they will benefit from when the stamps stop and the riots ensue
Dey ain't got time fo' dat!
And on Nov 13, 14 there’s going to be the Grid Shutdown. How much can we take?
Oh good, another financial crisis. Yay. I was getting sort of bored.
It doesn’t cost anywhere near $189 a month for a single person to eat well. With families, it’s even more insane. Keep in mind if they have kids in school, those kids get free breakfast, lunch, and healthy snack. On a full week of school, that’s 10 of their 21 meals for free in addition to the food stamps.
This is more about setting the table for the 2014 elections. Dems can now say Republicans cut food stamps and their LIVs will eat it up.
“Maybe they will have to eat at McDonald’s.”
McDonalds is going to need the business to replace at least some part of the business they are losing because of their lobbying of lawmakers to hire illegal aliens as workers to avoid hiring the jobless Americans enrolling for foodstamps paid for by the taxes of working Americans.
You can add this: the GOPe will blame Conservatives like Cruz for the cuts.
Foodstamps should be cut 5.5% a month until they are ended (18mo). Then fire and revoke the pension of every Federal parasite that "works" on the dozens of these destructive, wasteful welfare programs.
Our Republic cannot sustain this evil socialism.
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