Red counties = low education, low life expectancy, and lots of food stamps

[floridasandy]

you want to see how obama is helping the poor?


Millionaires are now legally entitled to collect food stamps as long as they have little or no monthly income. Thirty-five states have abolished asset tests for most food-stamp recipients. These and similar "paperwork reduction" reforms advocated by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) are turning the food-stamp program into a magnet for abuses and absurdities.

The Obama administration is far more enthusiastic about boosting food-stamp enrollment than about preventing fraud. Thanks in part to vigorous federally funded campaigns by nonprofit groups, the government's AmericaCorps service program, and other organizations urging people to accept government handouts, the number of food-stamp recipients has soared to 44 million from 26 million in 2007, and costs have more than doubled to $77 billion from $33 billion.

The USDA's Food and Nutrition Service now has only 40 inspectors to oversee almost 200,000 merchants that accept food stamps nationwide. The Government Accountability Office reported last summer that retailers who traffic illegally in food stamps by redeeming stamps for cash or alcohol or other prohibited items "are less likely to face criminal penalties or prosecution" than in earlier years. (end)

it is all about ARTIFICIALLY JUICING THE ECONOMY a little longer.

if you don't make sure that the people receiving assistance really need it, you have SQUANDERED precious resources and hurt the economy longterm.

it is about time that some people start admitting that we have either a clueless person in the white house, with no clue or plan to actually try and fix the economy AT ALL.

[Tk101]

Originally Posted by roysoldboy

Why are there so many illegal aliens living in the Plains states if there is nothing for them there? The blacks have little chance for anything where those aliens are.

Answering a question with a question... How quaint.

[lizjo]

[quote=nightflight;19680652]Most of the "red" areas are in rural areas. It really is simple. Your side calls it, "flyover".
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Yeah, flyover country, where people have "sloping foreheads" according to some lib journalist. Can't remember his name. But that was a dooozy of an insult.