Posted on 06/25/2012 1:54:16 PM PDT by kingattax
The easiest way to buy votes is to use other people’s money.
Definition of Irony!
The Food Stamp program, part of the Department of Agriculture, announced that it is pleased to be distributing food stamps to the greatest number of people ever.
Meanwhile, the Park Service, also part of the Department of Agriculture, asks us to “Please do not feed the animals” because they may grow dependent and not learn to take care of themselves.
That 2/5 or 3 million Smackeoos would feed a lot of people for a long time.
I’m betting that there aren’t many “needy” people in this country who can’t figre out where to go for their food stamps and other gummit programs in some Robin Hood scheme or another.
That 2/5 or 3 million Smackeoos would feed a lot of people for a long time.
I’m betting that there aren’t many “needy” people in this country who can’t figre out where to go for their food stamps and other gummit programs in some Robin Hood scheme or another.
Big Food has a vested interest in this too.
“Government wants” is classic “reification”...
It’s not “government”, it’s the socialist leftists that are IN government that “want”.
In addition to buying votes for Dims - from those on food stamps - grocery merchants from big so small are benefiting (compliments of the taxpayer), as well.
In California they have radio advertisements soliciting people to come and get some Calfresh (foodstamps)... The ads say if thou art low income or slow income come get some and be healthy with calfresh food.... freaking unbelievable
I’d not shop anywhere they have the “we accept EBT/Food stamps”.
My own form of protest. Are there any such stores in existence?
the more parasites, the more rat voters
absolutely-despicable-ass-backward-fat-smothering-nanny-state-psychopath alert.
I don't think such a place exists any longer :(
Once the govt gets in businesses like this without constitutional authority, then anything goes. I can envision details to make non-EBT stores non-existent. For example, and I don’t know if true or not, but I’d be surprised if it were not the case:
1. Govt reimburses the grocer for the product price, regardless of sales
2. Govt reimburses the grocer for the product list price,
3. Govt reimburses the grocer for 2x (or any factor) the price - after all, this is wealth transfer...2x, 3x, 10x is all the better agenda-wise.
It’s a vicious circle, there are so many folks on EBT I don’t think any food business could afford NOT to take it, except maybe a very high end specialty shop.
The govt has those commercials here in Indiana (along with the Obama phone commercials) but this would be far more effective:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luo40WjBKWI
WABC radio just had another commercial for it.
The campaign is targeted at the elderly, working poor, the unemployed and Hispanics
If that’s not racist, I don’t know what is...singling out Hispanics as people who need food stamps? The very idea of needing foodstamps or you even suggesting to me that I need food stamps is degrading. This immediately says there are no successful, rich Hispanics. If it explicitly said that it targeted blacks that would be called racist. Hispanic is not an economic status, it’s an ethnicity.
I thought that the liberals were supposed to be anti-racism?????
Here’s just another example that they are not.
Reminds me of the current healthcare model...
dontchya love 3rd party payers?
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