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.
A couple of problems with your argument. Mostly that it is dated. Some years ago it would be spot on, but right now unemployment is ferocious. In real terms, we’re talking 17%+, close to one-fifth of our adult population.
These are people who have never been unemployed, want to work, and are scared half to death.
Certainly there are many several-generational families getting food stamps and misusing them. But these Obama voters are never going to vote Republican anyway. When you get middle class people who feel forced to go on food stamps, they are scared and dangerous.
There are also far more of them than food banks could feed.
Now, I am not advocating that these people be kept on food stamps indefinitely. But even if the Republicans get both houses of congress and the presidency, it is likely going to be nine months to a year before the economy starts picking up again, enough to stimulate hiring.
And it will not cripple our nation any more than it is right now to keep feeding them until then. Even during the Dust Bowl, America had too much food, the excess of which the government spends a fortune to expensively warehouse. And if Republicans do what Reagan did and open these warehouses to the unemployed, it is not going to hurt the rest of us one bit.