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What kind of low-life scum fight to keep food from hungry families while they personally receive several thousand times more money that they also did nothing to deserve?
What kind of low-life scum fight to keep food from hungry families while they personally receive several thousand times more money that they also did nothing to deserve?
What are the food stamp recipients going to buy if we no farms to grow food for people? Skittles and watermelon drinks?
The only thing you can compare it to is the geezers on Medicare, Tricare, VA who reliably vote Republican. That makes Snap or Food stamps look like a Republican dream in keeping fed spending down. Anyone want to tell me how the VA budget today compare to 12 years ago?? Didn't think so...
There’s no significant money to be saved — if and when the economy recovers, SNAP will be back down to something like 0.25 percent of GDP.
Well, I have a theory. Republicans know, just know, that there has been a huge expansion of government under Obama; witness Rand Paul’s flabbergastedness (flabbergastnicity?) when I told him that public employment was down. The trouble is that the data don’t say what they know must be true. Here’s federal spending as a percentage of potential GDP:
So here’s the thing about SNAP: it’s one federal program that really has exploded in size in recent years, with the number of beneficiaries rising around 80 percent. Of course, it’s exploded for a very good reason, namely a once-in-three-generations economic crisis, and the program has stayed large because our so-called recovery hasn’t trickled down to the bottom half of the income distribution. But the right doesn’t care about any of that; in food stamps, it gets to see what it wants to see — surging government spending! Millions of takers! And so food stamps become public enemy #2.
It's a damn 5% cut over 10 years!! To a program that exploded over 150% in less time.
This has already been discussed in another thread.
I appreciate you bringing this up. But really, there are better ways to eliminate even more federal gov't spending, but for political reasons no one will vote for them (not buying unnecessary things for defense is a good example).
This doesn't change what I said, though. Republicans are still just as much of "gimmes" as welfare recipients are. They love to blast poor people for taking government aid, but go try taking away their free schools or social security or Medicare, or eliminate an unnecessary tax break, and they'll flip out.
Defend the subsidies or don't. But stake out a position and stop prevaricating.
I'm much more inclined to support subsidizing people who are productive and create food for people than people who sit back and let someone else produce for them.
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