Food Stamp Recipients Outnumber Women Who Work Full-Time

People participating in the food stamp program outnumbered the women who worked full-time, year-round in the United States in 2012, according to data from the Department of Agriculture and the Census Bureau.

In the average month of 2012, according to the Department of Agriculture, there were 46,609,000 people participating in the food stamp program (formally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). That contrasts with the 44,059,000 women who worked full-time, year-round in 2012, according to the Census Bureau’s report on Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States.

For each woman who worked full-time, year-round in 2012, there was slightly more than 1 other person collecting food stamps.

It is not a Federal agency,

Yes it is.

There is no oversight

Congress has oversight of the Fed.

The Federal Reserve claimed a profit of about $90 Billion last year,

And they gave about $89 billion of that to the US Treasury. Strange thing to do, if they aren't part of the government.

And since the last independent, outside audit of the Fed was, well.......never

They're audited every year. Recent audits were by Deloitte.

Our interest payments on the debt are in the six figures of Billions per year.

The highest interest paid on the US debt was $454 billion in 2011. That's only 3 figures, not six.

And the Fed only holds $2.3 trillion of the nearly $17.6 trillion in debt.

70% of Texas’ illegal immigrant families receive welfare

In Texas, 54 percent of legal immigrants and 70 percent of illegal immigrants receive welfare assistance, with illegal immigrants generally receiving benefits on behalf of their U.S.-born children

http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/04/study-70-of-texas-illegal-immigrant-families-receive-welfare/

Although I strongly approve of the author's actions toward meeting the needs of the poor in her own community, I take objection to a couple statements in her article.

"The fact that our government has historically provided assistance to its citizens is proof that many legislators in the past understood the Biblical idea of charity and caring for the poor."

God does not call on government to provide for the poor, He calls on His people. She is doing just that and not relying on government.

and

"The irony is that the political party that claims to represent Christian values wants to cut off the sucklings without providing them an alternative way to survive. This is both an insult and an affront to the Kingdom of God."

Many wealthy members of the GOP, who she is obviously referring to, make it possible for the poor to come out of poverty by providing education and economic opportunity, not by coddling them and spoon feeding them like liberals. Liberals may think they are providing charity, but they are in truth fostering irresponsibility and ingratitude among the poor (everything’s an entitlement now and the less responsible I am, the more I'm owed from the government) in addition to robbing those who do give from their plenty the blessing of giving to the poor.

A quote from one of my favorite articles by Selwyn Duke says, "... they [conservatives] tend to recognize that true love means giving your fellow man what he needs, not necessarily what he wants. Conservatives also believe in charity, only, we know that it doesn't mean giving a person the shirt off someone else's back. We know that anyone with a good heart has compassion, but we don't believe that telling someone who's hurtling down a road toward Perdition that he should stay the course if he enjoys the scenery qualifies as such."

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