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“I know that literally billions of dollars in cash went missing from pallets in Iraq. The outrage around here was just barely louder than crickets.”

I don’t recall hearing about that. I try to look at at least the headlines of articles posted throughout the day but that one didn’t catch my attention. When did that happen?”

I believe rintintin is conflating in his/her mind the pallets of money Obama had shipped to Iran in the dark of the night during his regime. What this has to do with food stamps is beyond me. Someone I know very well was fraudulently gaming the food stamp system for years, but recently got caught and gets stamps no more.

I think rintin's point is we spent nearly $10 trillion in the middle east in the last 16 years and especially first half of those years, conservatives in general not only didn't complain about blowing that kind of money, but openly cheered Bush/Cheney on for their failed nation-building exercise. The food stamp $ in question here is 0.004 of the amount of money over that same time period, and at least it goes to US citizens and supports a lot of jobs (farmers, distributors and grocery store employees)

Of all of our social programs in the US, the food stamp one is the one I have the least issues with and I would not do anything that discourages savings (means tested) in general as it creates a permanent poverty class as their is significantly less incentive to save.