Food Stamp Nation goes international

Human Events ^ | 7-19-2012 | John Hayward

[dragonblustar]

“The Mexican government has been working with the United States Department of Agriculture to increase participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), or food stamps,” the Daily Caller reported on Thursday.

This is not a new development. The cross-border outreach program has existed since 2004. What’s news is that Congress, specifically Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), is demanding information and documentation from Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack about the size and scope of the program, how much American taxpayer money it consumes, and its effect on illegal immigration. Thus far, Sessions’ questions have not been answered.

Here’s how the program works, according to the United States Department of Agriculture website: “USDA and the government of Mexico have entered into a partnership to help educate eligible Mexican nationals living in the United States about available nutrition assistance. Mexico will help disseminate this information through its embassy and network of approximately 50 consular offices.” This ensures every Mexican emigrant will be fully trained in promptly accessing American welfare benefits when they cross the border.

Illegal aliens aren’t supposed to be eligible for food stamps, but Sessions is not sanguine about the integrity of the program, which has already seen plenty of fraud and abuse from legal citizens. “It’s a very disturbing policy, gone on for some years, and it raises very serious questions about American immigration policy as well as fiscal policy,” the Senator said, questioning the logic of “an immigration policy that would encourage immigrants who can’t successfully operate within this society.”

[dragonblustar]

The cost of the food stamp program has ballooned accordingly, from $27 billion in 2004 to $78 billion by the end of 2011. The Heritage Foundation estimated that about 3.9 percent of that funding is lost to “improper food stamp payments,” which would give us about $2.75 billion in fraud for 2011. Among the more common methods of defrauding the system is collecting food stamp benefits for the deceased, which is quite inconsistent with the generally accepted nutritional requirements of the walking dead. If the dead can collect SNAP benefits, it’s probably not that hard for living ineligible recipients to game the system.

[molson209]

so they can stay in their home country and collect food stamps ?

[skeeter]

People had better wake up. The international communists are looting the nation.

[griswold3]

Buy JP Morgan Chase. They’re gonna boom while handling all these benefits for the FSA.

[molson209]

A REAL PRESIDENT would want his people off food stamps not try to get more people on food stamps

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Can’t say it enough!

[Dallas59]

What has Mexico done for me lately.....except call me a white racist idiot?

[the invisib1e hand]

bump.

[Tzimisce]

We traded our money, freedom and greatness for some warm fuzzies.

Thank you for not caring. :)

Now go pay your taxes - Mexicans that hate you need the money. :)

[the invisib1e hand]

so they can stay in their home country and collect food stamps ?

no, silly. so they can come here, get fake papers, and vote for obama.

[griswold3]

If we had a REAL American President, he would promote ‘earned success’. But since we have an International Socialist (’You didn’t build that business’)in the White House, he is promoting ‘learned dependency’. “Learned Dependency” conditions supporters to reward politicians who loot and pillage the nation’s treasury to redistribute others’ wealth.

[dragonblustar]

Drudge had something on this earlier today but it has been pulled down. I wonder why?

[PGR88]

The USDA is supplying the bread - who has got the circuses?

[Travis McGee]

From Romney on down, we don't need to shy away from calling Obummer

THE FOOD STAMP PRESIDENT.

[lowbridge]

bump

[Iron Munro]

There really is a mental disease that causes most politicians (of all parties) to lose thier rationality and judgement the minute they cross the Potomic and set foot in Washington.

They start to think they are divine beings placed here to serve the interests of the entire world. Usually to the detriment of the people they were elected to serve.

John and Jane Doe back home are there just to work and pay taxes so the politicians can big-time it with their money.

Oddly enough, most black politicians from black districts actually do a better job of representing the voters who elected them than do most whites.

[mark1973]

According to the article,this started in 2004. So in other words,not only Obama is guilty of this,but also his big spending,New World Order,socialist pal, George W.Bush got this monstrosity started. My goodness,both parties are working hand and hand to deliberately destroy our sovereignty and way of life.

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[dragonblustar]

According to the article,this started in 2004. So in other words,not only Obama is guilty of this,but also his big spending,New World Order,socialist pal, George W.Bush got this monstrosity started. My goodness,both parties are working hand and hand to deliberately destroy our sovereignty and way of life.

That was George's "compassionate conservative".

And yes, both parties are guilty. With the republican's its a slower death but the dems, it's full speed ahead towards the brick wall.

[the invisib1e hand]

usda is still advertising these things in the USA, btw. Just heard one on the Rush Limbaugh show, of all things.

I mean, I know most of the ads on Rush are scams -- anti-graying and work-from-home formulae and the like, but this one's over the top.

It sounds like something from Saturday Night Live, actually.

but it's not. it's the voice of the Obama Administration.