Posted on 08/04/2011 12:30:07 PM PDT by mandaladon
On Wednesday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams reported on another development in the Great Obama Recovery:
"We saw some astounding new numbers that came out today. They showed the number of Americans relying on food stamps has hit another all-time record. These numbers would come as a huge disappointment to President Lyndon Johnson, who launched his War on Poverty back in 1964. Nearly 46 million of your fellow citizens are receiving food stamp assistance. That represents 21 million American households. Numbers went up in 49 out of 50 states."
Certainly discouraging numbers, but not astounding. Unless, of course, you somehow expected the machinations of President Barack Obama & Associates to do anything other than kill any hope of economic recuperation.
President Lyndon Johnson may have been disappointed, but the chief warrior in the War on Poverty shouldn't be given total credit, if that's the correct word, for the food stamp program. That distinction belongs to another liberal hero, John F. Kennedy.
According to the JFK Presidential Library and Museum's Web site, on February 2, 1961, Kennedy asked "Congress for program to help end recession, including food stamps, extended benefits for unemployed workers and welfare payments for their children." This was followed by his first executive order, which announced a three-year food stamp "pilot" program. We all know what happens to temporary government programs; his successor and Congress made it permanent with the Food Stamp Act of 1964:
The Department (of Agriculture) estimated that participation in a national FSP would eventually reach 4 million, at a cost of $360 million annually.
Kennedy brother-in-law Sargent Shriver ran LBJ's Office of Economic Opportunity. In 1967, when about $700 million a year was devoted to food assistance programs, Shriver estimated that another billion dollars would permanently solve the problem of hunger in America.
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One day I was at their apartment and he came in with a big smile on his face and some “great news.” “What happened?” my brother asked, “Did you find a job?” “No, man,” he replied, “I just found out I'm eligible for food stamps!”
I’ve seen this happen with my own eyes, at more than one Convenient store located near a casino.
I'm sure your question is purely rhetorical, because we all know that the liberal idiots are never going to learn. They have a religious dogma that says redistribution is good. No facts will dissuade them of that.
I'm sure your question is purely rhetorical, because we all know that the liberal idiots are never going to learn. They have a religious dogma that says redistribution is good. No facts will dissuade them of that.
Michael Berry on the radio here in Houston asked callers one day to tell about abuses of food stamps, or the Texas equivalent, the Lone Star Card, that they had witnessed.
Several people told stories about how people had seen several Lone Star Cards being used by the same person to get huge quantities of food, which the person freely admitted was going to be resold from a fast food stand.
Two women were buying lots of bottled water, and then reselling it in the park to joggers.
Apparently, these people buy these cards from people in their neighborhood for 50 cents on the dollar. I suppose the original cardholders use the money for drugs or alcohol that they wouldn’t be able to buy with the cards.
Liberal media type? I trust you're not talking about me.
lolol
Trust the author himself to catch my mistake. After I posted it, I realized I should have referred to the subject, Brian Williams, as the liberal media type. Not you.
But I figured, nahhhh.... No one will catch my mistake.
But I figured wrong. Sorry.
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