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Newark Mayor Cory Booker: $80.4B Food Stamp Program ‘Not a Government Handout’
Cybercast News Service ^
| December 10, 2012
| Patrick Burke
Posted on 12/10/2012 11:00:28 AM PST by Olog-hai
Newark, N.J. Mayor Cory Booker says the federal governments Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (food stamps), which spent $80.4 billion in fiscal 2012, is not a government handout.
I hope and understand that people are getting a better recognition that this is a program that really helps America, helps families in need, Booker said on Friday, while describing his fourth day of living on a SNAP budget.
"Its not a government handout, he said. If anything, its a safety net that helps people through difficult times and bridges them towards stability.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: booker; corybooker; ebt; foodstamps; freecheeze; newark; socialism; stamps; tbone; welfarestate
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To: Olog-hai
That’s right up to a point. It’s another government money laundering project.
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posted on
12/10/2012 12:22:33 PM PST
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
To: Olog-hai
Giving a man a fish is also not a handout.
Giving a panhandler a dollar is also not a handout.
In both cases, the man/woman will have something to eat.
The problem is with the dictionary definition of the word “handout”.
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posted on
12/10/2012 12:42:42 PM PST
by
adorno
(Y)
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
12/10/2012 1:38:35 PM PST
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
12/10/2012 2:07:50 PM PST
by
marsh2
To: freekitty
the real purpose and a majority of the money is to support a massive bloated bureaucracy
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posted on
12/10/2012 2:11:34 PM PST
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: Olog-hai
Funny, that’s about exactly the amount Obama wants to take from the 2%.
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posted on
12/10/2012 2:33:18 PM PST
by
Mike Darancette
(I don't understand why the Boomers are so passive.)
To: GeronL
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posted on
12/10/2012 4:16:38 PM PST
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
To: Olog-hai
That's because Booker doesn't consider reparations, handouts.
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posted on
12/10/2012 4:23:49 PM PST
by
liberalh8ter
(If Barack has a memory like a steel trap, why can't he remember what the Constitution says?)
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