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"Obama Administration Offers $75,000 Grants to Sign Up More Food Stamp Recipients"
BigGovernment.com ^ | January 29, 2012 | Wynton Hall

Posted on 01/29/2012 11:07:54 AM PST by redstateone

Over the last three years, the number of Americans on food stamps has skyrocketed by two-thirds and stands at a record-high 46 million citizens, or one out of every seven people in the United States. Despite the historic rise in food stamp use, however, the Obama Administration believes not enough people are receiving food stamps who should be and is offering $75,000 grants to groups who devise “effective strategies” to “increase program participation” among those who have yet to sign up...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: foodstamps; obama; spending
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To: redstateone

I’ve always told everyone that the United States would always be overthrown in Washington D.C..

However, I thought it would happen after I left this earth. Now, to my horror I will live long enough to see it actually happen.


21 posted on 01/29/2012 11:47:24 AM PST by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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To: tumblindice
"If organizers can deliver millions of dollars in cash benefits to the ghetto masses, it seems reasonable to expect that the masses will deliver their loyalties to their benefactors."


22 posted on 01/29/2012 11:47:30 AM PST by Iron Munro ("Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight he'll just kill you." John Steinbeck)
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To: Iron Munro

Class warfare is only successful if the poor class is bigger then the rest.


23 posted on 01/29/2012 1:30:03 PM PST by aimhigh
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To: redstateone

If all the republican candidate don’t make this a big issue starting immediately, they’re really hopeless.

What an opportunity for Gingrich!


24 posted on 01/29/2012 7:29:32 PM PST by aquila48
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