Does anyone know the overhead cost of these programs, how much goes to administration divided by the total funding? I would bet it is like Social Security where they don’t know because they don’t track it. My guess is that the overhead cost is greater than the amount that actually funds food. This seems like just an expanded jobs program for inefficient leftists who will always vote ‘RAT.
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You could expand this article to the War on Poverty. The sequence of events is almost identical except for the means of measurement. The “poverty level” is determined by a fraction of the population, and this fraction never changes! What changes is the cost of living. As the cost of living increases every year due to government induced inflation the “poverty level” increases every year. The War is never won or lost, it just continues to be a percentage of the population that never changes. If the “poverty level” is the bottom 20% of the population today, it will be the bottom 20% of the population tomorrow regardless of the programs and billions of your dollars the politicians throw at it.
While I do indeed realize the fact that are many, many people in the USA that are hungry and struggling, based upon what the NYT classifies as “Food Insecure” even I fall into that category daily (immediateluly right before I eat lunch and dinner).
I found this online:
“Regulations adopted by the Clinton administration—and expanded even further by the Obama administration— have allowed states to expand eligibility beyond the program’s intended purpose. These regulations allow states to deem anyone authorized to receive a welfare brochure as ‘categorically eligible’ for food stamps, bypassing the federal asset test and the income eligibility limit.
“The widespread use of this loophole, known as broad-based categorical eligibility or BBCE, has allowed more than five million people—including millionaires—to enroll in food stamps without meeting federal eligibility criteria for assets, income, or both.”
I don’t know if it is actually true.
If food insecurity was actually a thing, we wouldn’t have herds of wild boars running loose in so many states. Nor would there be dead deer along highways. When my husband was growing up in PA in the late 40’s and early 50’s forest rangers would pick up dead deer along the roads that were fresh and bring the meat to their school for lunch for the kids and teachers. PA state law permits people to pick up deer killed on the highway provided they notify the state.