Like this:
Now, add up 20%, 22%, and 16%.
You should come up with 58%, which is where we start with before we can even cut anything else.
That 58% is bankrupting the country. It all started with FDR, but it still continue. 
Like this:
Now, add up 20%, 22%, and 16%.
You should come up with 58%, which is where we start with before we can even cut anything else.
That 58% is bankrupting the country. It all started with FDR, but it still continue.
Considering what that particular program does, weigh it against Department of Education which hands out $78 billion per year in grants to school districts, et al, which has plenty of well-paid employees who really don't need those grants!
I think you should start with Commerce Department, Department of Labor, Department of Education, Housing and Urban Development, and so forth.
Although the food stamp program started up in the 1960s, way back during the Great Depression a deal was struck with the states whereby the federal government would collect the taxes for and pay welfare!
Food stamps are also extended to working poor ~ not just to the handicapped, disabled, low income elderly, and chilluns!
BTW, the only way you get EITC is to earn a living that is subject to FICA. EITC is designed, in part, to mitigate FICA and other direct taxes on the working poor.
BTW, be a good idea to clawback all our money Obama gave to the banks and brokerages to bail them out.
And I mean ALL of it.
There's plenty for the House of Representatives to direct the President to cut without even thinking about SS, SSS, SNAP and EITCH.
BTW, SS is PAID FOR WITH FICA.