Rick Perry Slams Food Stamps, Government Subsidies

The State Column ^ | August 21, 2011 | Staff

[AAABEST]

Texas Governor Rick Perry, the latest GOP candidate to enter the 2012 presidential race, looks to challenge former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney’s status as the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination. Perry entered the race on August 13th after announcing his candidacy at an event in South Carolina. Perry’s announcement, which stole the spotlight from the Ames Straw Poll, put to rest several months of speculation about the Texas Governor’s decision to run for the GOP nomination.

During his presidential announcement, Perry said “we cannot afford four more years of this rudderless leadership.” Perry also added that “page one of any economic plan to get America working is to give a pink slip to the current resident in the White House.”

Ever since his presidential announcement in South Carolina, Perry’s criticism of the Obama administration has been relentless. More recently, Perry criticized the Obama administration’s comments on food stamps or the Federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

This week, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said “when you talk about the SNAP program or the food stamp program, you have to recognize that it’s also an economic stimulus.” Vilsack also added that “it’s the most direct stimulus you can get in the economy during these tough times,” because of the work that goes into an item of food before it ends up in the grocery store.

While campaigning in South Carolina on Friday, Perry slammed the Obama administration’s view of food stamps and other government subsidies. “Most Americans do not yearn to be dependent on government subsidies, they want economic freedom, and economic freedom comes from work and wages, not welfare,” Perry argued.

One of the focal points of Perry’s presidential campaign is the longest serving Texas Governor’s record on job creation. Forty percent of the nation’s new jobs have been created in the Lone Star State since June 2009. “Our message is clear, we’ve got to get America working again,” Perry said during a campaign stop in South Carolina on Saturday.

Perry believes strongly that government subsidies, such as food stamps, shouldn’t be on the government’s list of responsibilities. “The central issue of this election is an Administration that believes Washington must be our caretaker, and a people who want Washington to only take care of their constitutional responsibilities,” Perry professed.

Besides reiterating his belief that food stamps aren’t “economic stimulus,” Perry talked about the need to focus on the private sector when it comes to job creation. “We have tried two and a half years of government trying to create jobs, it’s time to let the private sector get to work,” Perry argued.

[wolfcreek]

La Raza has a major influence on the Hispanic population in this country. They have to be dealt with by whomever our leaders are. Even Ron Paul or Sarah Palin

Being a one issue voter never got anyone the door prize, especially if they don’t listen to people who actually live in the state and have vetted the candidate for many years.

IIRC, pushing for any sort of violent act(s) on this forum is a No No. Might want to see if the Admin. Mod can help you change your last sentence?

[Baladas]

Rick Perry is a RINO . . . no, wait, Rick Perry is a far-right Christian conservative that wants to turn the country into some big theocracy .. . yep, front-runner. Obama and his MSM toadies are going to have to tear this one down, do their own work for a change.

[muawiyah]

They have a perfectly decent country (one of the world's better ones actually) to go home to and get an education ~ in Spanish no less.

I prefer a Mexican in Mexico. Comprende Usted?

[Tempest]

Jesus

[LomanBill]

>>You'll note the news media are moving away from..

 

..the Truth?

 

"...and finally, that truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them."

http://religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu/sacred/vaact.html

 

 

 

"I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anym... errr, uhhh...

 

Say, who's winning American Idol, Dancing With the Stars, and the GOP nomination between commercials for Viagra and Sleeping Pills today?"

 

Yep.   Nothing to see there, moove along li'l cash-dogies.  BOHICA.

 

 

 

 

[muawiyah]

It would take much more desperate circumstances to make food stemps vital to the existence of the economy. Another Obama term would bring those circumstances around though.

[icanhasbailout]

You do realize that by mocking valid and important concerns rather than confronting them, you only reinforce that these are serious and very damaging issues?

[LomanBill]

>>Might want to see if the Admin. Mod can help you change your last sentence?

 

This sentence:  What time does the racewar start?

 

Is that not the underlying objective whenever the La-Raza Mechistas are involved?

 

Like that time when Ol' Tom Metzger endorsed one.

 

NO SALE.

 

 

 

 

[icanhasbailout]

people who rely on food stamps, more and more that are middle class unemployed, MUST have food stamps if they want to eat.

That's a myth that the Democrats love. The truth of the matter is that food stamp fraud is rampant and the vast majority of those receiving them are not actually dependent upon them. Witness the number of food stamp recipients who have iPhones and Blackberries, "bling" and rims and grilles and so on and so forth.

Furthermore, food stamps should be temporary assistance but instead they have enabled multi-generational do-nothing parasite "families" (and I use that term lightly, as a "baby mommy" who doesn't even know who the fathers of each of her six kids actually are doesn't constitute a real family, in my book).

If someone really needs assistance to avert starvation, that's a job for a church, a food bank, or other non-profit voluntary charity organization - not the government.

The government can help - by ending policies that raise the price of food, policies like ethanol gasoline, farm subsidies, paying people not to grow crops, high energy taxes, ridiculous levels of bureaucracy and regulation (I mean, armed raw milk cops? seriously?) and so on.

[shield]

icanhasbailout
Since Aug 6, 2011

Newbies are always suspect here at FR.

[icanhasbailout]

sorry about the repost, can't edit so I am fixing formatting)

people who rely on food stamps, more and more that are middle class unemployed, MUST have food stamps if they want to eat.

That's a myth that the Democrats love. The truth of the matter is that food stamp fraud is rampant and the vast majority of those receiving them are not actually dependent upon them. Witness the number of food stamp recipients who have iPhones and Blackberries, "bling" and rims and grilles and so on and so forth.

Furthermore, food stamps should be temporary assistance but instead they have enabled multi-generational do-nothing parasite "families" (and I use that term lightly, as a "baby mommy" who doesn't even know who the fathers of each of her six kids actually are doesn't constitute a real family, in my book).

If someone really needs assistance to avert starvation, that's a job for a church, a food bank, or other non-profit voluntary charity organization - not the government.

The government can help - by ending policies that raise the price of food, policies like ethanol gasoline, farm subsidies, paying people not to grow crops, high energy taxes, ridiculous levels of bureaucracy and regulation (I mean, armed raw milk cops? seriously?) and so on.

[Ditter]

Don't call us Texicans! That is a word you learned from a John Wayne movie. Bet you think that Sarah Palin said she could see Russia from her house. One is just about as ignorant as the other.

[LomanBill]

[La Raza has a major influence on the Hispanic population in this country. ]

Like Al Queda has a major influence on the Muslim population in this country?   They the next stop for Pander-Perry's tour bus?

 

 

What about letting the TRUTH influence the population in this country for a change - instead of whatever bovine excrement The Party(tm) decides to spin from the Southern end of its digestive tract....?

 

The Virginia Act For Establishing Religious Freedom

 

"...and finally, that truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them. "

--Thomas Jefferson, 1786

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&cp=13&gs_id=7f&xhr=t&q=virginia+act+for+establishing+religious+freedom

 

 [people who actually live in the state ]

 

The state where Useful Idiots tried to write Thomas Jefferson and the above out of their State skewal curriculum?  

 

That State?   Those "vetters"?  Uhuh.

 

Still chafing over that whole pre/post-civil-war "NOTHING IS MORE CERTAINLY IN THE BOOK OF FATE THAN THAT THESE PEOPLE ARE TO BE FREE", are they?

 

 

NO SALE.

 

 

[SoJoCo]

Perry believes strongly that government subsidies, such as food stamps, shouldn’t be on the government’s list of responsibilities.

Sounds like needy or not, Perry doesn't believe the government should be in the Food Stamp business.

[SoJoCo]

Hey, I suspect there are plenty on the left that’d today like to see W back...W had low unemployment. People could find jobs...the economy was in good shape. W wasn’t purposely destroying America. There are those on the left, believe or not, that aren’t happy with the destruction of America...so W comes to mind.

I suspect that most on the left would rather see Clinton back than Bush.

[shield]

Well, the left we’re dealing with today probably can only think back as far as W.

[LomanBill]

>>That is a word you learned from a John Wayne movie.

Maybe you learned it from a John Wayne movie.  Which one?

Regardless, it is an accurate taxonomic designator in light of self-evident demographic context and fact.

Just like referring to residents of Santa Ana CA as “Little Tijuanans”.

Some places are evidently on the other side of the border, regardless of geography.

 

 

[Niuhuru]

Just for saying that, I would happily be his Monica. Or Marilyn.

(Niuhuru walks out in a tight nude, beaded dress)

“Happy Birthday, to you
Happy Birthday, to you
Happy Birthday, President Perry
Happy Birthday, to you”

(Waves hand and shrieks “everybody, happy birthday!”)

[Ditter]

The correct word is Texian and it refers to the original settlers of Texas. My grandfather born in Texas in 1879 knew some of these early pioneers and had the greatest respect for them. What you call people in California is up to you.

[lonestar]

Jesus Torres or Jesus Gonzales?