[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Better than one in eight Americans receives SNAP. Somewhere in a little corner of Hell, LBJ is smiling.

[PGR88]

Better than one in eight Americans receives SNAP. Somewhere in a little corner of Hell, LBJ is smiling.

Its utterly corrupt. I know Ivy League MBA and graduate students, entire departments of such students in fact, who get food stamps.

One simply applies, claims little income as a student, and the monthly deposits start flowing.

[ansel12]

When you think of LBJ always think of JFK first.

"SNAP was preceded by the original Food Stamp Program of 1939 and the pilot programs of the early 1960s."

"By 1943, however, the program was terminated because of reduced availability of surpluses due to the war effort and a decline in unemployment levels"

"During his presidential campaign in West Virginia, Senator John F. Kennedy promised to start a food stamp program if elected. His first executive order on January 21, 1961 (White House, 1961), expanded food distribution programs and was followed by a February announcement that USDA would initiate a series of food stamp pilot programs. Starting with eight sites, the initiative eventually expanded to 43. The success of these pilot programs led President Lyndon Johnson to request in 1964 that a permanent Food Stamp Program be enacted.4 He signed such a program into law later that year under the auspices of his “War on Poverty” (FNS, 2012d)."

The first Food Stamp issued in 1939.