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That headline is a lie. Perry *did not* “slam food stamps”. Instead he “slammed” the Obama apparatchik who said that “food stamps stimulate the economy.”

This is NOT a subtle difference, so it is pretty obvious that whoever wrote the headline did so to attack Perry.

That being said, supporting food stamps right now is essential to Republican victory, as people who rely on food stamps, more and more that are middle class unemployed, MUST have food stamps if they want to eat.

Mind you, they WANT employment, but there is no employment, so they are pretty desperate. And anyone who even talks about cutting food stamps right now they must think of as their enemy. They have no choice. Vote for whoever keeps giving food stamps or starve.

That is not a good choice, because they would vote for the devil himself, if it would keep food on their table.

So no matter what any of us philosophically think about the wisdom of food stamps, for heaven’s sake, DO NOT encourage ANY Republican candidate or office holder to talk about cutting them back AT ALL.

Once unemployment is back down to 3-5%, then maybe. BUT NOT NOW.

You can tell the difference between them and the ones who do it by choice, though.

I stand and watch them in their designer clothes, pull their Gubmint debit cards out of designer handbags they bought at Marshalls for $169 instead of the “regular price” of $279 and then load their *carts* [yes, plural] into the back of their Lexus SUV and drive a 1/4 mile back to their Section 8 mansions which *used* to be McMansions that went underwater during the housing collapse.

-Real- need users aren’t dressed like that, have purses or cars like that and their *cart* is full of essential stuff, not Little Debbies and lobsters.
Nor do they act or look “arrogant” about it, quite the opposite, in fact.
[God bless them]

It makes me sick.

I have nothing against those who -need- them due to the loss of their honest day’s work; it’s the fat slobs who get them because they feel “entitled”.

Weed those out and I’ll be happy.

That headline is a lie. Perry *did not* “slam food stamps”. Instead he “slammed” the Obama apparatchik who said that “food stamps stimulate the economy.” This is NOT a subtle difference, so it is pretty obvious that whoever wrote the headline did so to attack Perry. That being said, supporting food stamps right now is essential to Republican victory, as people who rely on food stamps, more and more that are middle class unemployed, MUST have food stamps if they want to eat.

ASTUTE OBSERVATION!

This is a good example of the Ass.Press. doing the Alinskyite thing of trying to 'isolate' a Republican candidate. Take their words and twist it. Next up, they get a RINO on MeetTheDepressed and ask if they support FoodStamps or want it destroyed like Perry does. Then they get the blathering RINO to do the 'distance' dance and - voila - a GOP circular firing squad. Rinse and repeat.

Perry is smart enough to know that these things HELP HIM, so he will be making some out there comments that draw media attention. So far so good for him. He's correct on the substance and is already drawing blood from the Obama administration. The only prior candidate who did that was (gulp) Trump. It's good to see a candidate who can land a punch on the Obama administration.

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.

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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.