In case anyone missed it, the classic:
Posted on 05/02/2015 10:25:49 AM PDT by pinochet
The big Agribusiness corporations are some of the most corrupt corporations in America. The New York Times had an article in 2013, on the Agribusiness corruption in the $1 trillion farm bill. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/20/business/richer-farmers-bigger-subsidies.html?_r=0
The Food Stamp programs and free school lunch programs, are a means by which Agro-business corporations can increase their revenues, by selling food to the Federal and State governments at above market prices.
The food stamp program was never intended to help the poor. Even the USDA website admits that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program was intended to help Agribusiness corporations sell surplus food that they were unable to sell in the free market. The permanent Food Stamp Program came into effect in 1964, and there were 380,000 food stamp recipients. The number rose to 10 million in 1971. Today, there are 46 million food stamp recipients.
In 1963, before America had a permanent food stamp program, we did not have any starving poor people in America. Poor Americans were slim and handsome/beautiful people, very physically fit, and extremely hard workers. Younger Americans may be surprised to learn that America had the hardest working poor people in the world. Most poor adults were married, church-going moral people, in 1963. Food stamps made poor people fat, immoral, and lazy, and created the obesity epidemic among the poor.
An American General recently said that Obesity is a national security issue for America, because it reduced potential recruits for the US military:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3050620/Obesity-epidemic-national-security-issue-says-general-warns-HALF-young-Americans-fat-serve-2020.html
Makes sense that big businesses want amnesty for umpteen million. They get on food stamps and voila, umpteen million new cash streams via Fedzilla.
Yea I have had that run in before LOL.
My oldest worked as a cashier and saw what they bought on their food stamps and it was sickening.
I wonder to what degree the food inflation we’ve seen in the past six years is due to the expansion of SNAP.
That never occurred to me, but now it makes perfect sense.
When people DO NOT have money to BUY your product you simply GIVE them MONEY in the form of "Food Stamps-EBT" offered by the Government.
There food corps plan is to make sure they have profits, even at the expense of the taxpayers.
he cops came to the door to deal with the drunk couple and noticed the 48 pot plants within easy view. This resulted in a 2:00 am SWAT raid.
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A SWAT team for two most likely drunk 50 year olds? Wow.
They were already at the door and they came back with a raid at 2AM??
Why? It doesn’t make much sense.
Something like 20-30% of households get the average lower middle class amount for groceries per person (30/month per person, $120 per person per month, $500/month for a family of four). SNAP isn’t intended to be the whole amount they spend on food, simply a large share. Hence the “supplemental”, with an incentive to work part time or make other money to buy more and better food.
There are a disproportionate number of families that don’t manage the money, blow it all by mid-month and hit food banks by the end of the month.
And all of that money is supplemented by free school lunches and breakfasts for the kids, WIC for infants, etc.
“A SWAT team for two most likely drunk 50 year olds? Wow.”
They smashed the door flat...my door. They left it lying there with all the renter’s stuff exposed to whoever might want to come in and take it. The neighbor went over and propped the door back up.
“Last year we spent $76 billion in taxpayer money on food stamps, officially known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP.”
From here:
That comes to about $14B a year spent at Walmart.
fools
In case anyone missed it, the classic:
Well, the American people may not be lunatics, but they surely know how to act like them.
The American people never met anyone buying lobsters on food stamps for whom they did not feel the deepest envy.
Section 8 does the same things in rental markets. It punishes the working poor and lower middle class by driving up the price of renting.
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