Newark Mayor Cory Booker: $80.4B Food Stamp Program ‘Not a Government Handout’

Cybercast News Service ^ | December 10, 2012 | Patrick Burke

[Olog-hai]

Newark, N.J. Mayor Cory Booker says the federal government’s 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.

"It’s not a government handout,” he said. “If anything, it’s a safety net that helps people through difficult times and bridges them towards stability.” …

[freekitty]

That’s right up to a point. It’s another government money laundering project.

[adorno]

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”.

[Travis McGee]

[marsh2]

Uhhhh, yeh it is.

[GeronL]

the real purpose and a majority of the money is to support a massive bloated bureaucracy

[Mike Darancette]

Funny, that’s about exactly the amount Obama wants to take from the 2%.

[freekitty]

Which means payoffs

[liberalh8ter]

That's because Booker doesn't consider reparations, handouts.