[SkyPilot]

Almost all Americans believe in helping those truly in need. Aiding the poor and widows is a Judeo-Christian value, and one commanded by God.

But God also condemns sloth, theft, and corruption - and those words describe what the Federal Food Stamp program has become.

What Obama did was expand Food Stamp eligibility to to almost anyone who qualifies for even one Federal subsidy.

We all have the seen those in line with us in the grocery store, swiping their little plastic cards. Food prices are destroying many middle class families, and the price of food is skyrocketing in part because of Federal waste on the EBT program (the government did the same thing to college tuition).

We cannot go on like this.

_{Hydrothermal Worm Parasite under electron microscope}

[freedumb2003]

Those numbers are supposed to be flat.

Food stamps are supposed to be TEMPORARY.

[GraceG]

And Here I thought Republicans wanted women to be barefoot and pregnant...

Nope, just the democraps who want them that was as long as they are on EPT and SNAP...

[VRW Conspirator]

According to plan.

[SkyPilot]

As Mark Steyn said: " 'We Accept EBT' is the new E pluribus unum."

[DannyTN]

Food Stamps are one of the many hidden costs of cheap imports.

We need to raise the import tariffs and put Americans back to work.

But we also need to ban Senators and Congressment and Federal Officials from investments in foreign businesses that run trade deficits with the U.S. Reid and Pelosi have so many Chinese investments that they are effectively owned by the Chinese.

[Sherman Logan]

Interesting that the increase was almost as steep under Bush as under Obama.

[detective]

Obama supporters want something for nothing. We taxpayers are expected to have the money we have earned taken from us to pay for it.

[Responsibility2nd]

What will happen when the food stamp recipients outnumber the providers? Better question: What will happen When The Music Stops?

[2ndDivisionVet]

Then we’re doomed.

[KC_Lion]

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.

Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.

Give a man someone else’s fish and he will vote for you.

[familyop]

Many of the women working part time and full time are on food stamps. Many of the men can be found in tents, on sidewalks, and remains of 'em in ash storage.

How Dramatically Did Women's Suffrage Change the Size and Scope of Government?

JOHN R. LOTT Jr.
American Enterprise Institute (AEI) (download links for whole document at bottom of page)

September 1998

University of Chicago Law School, John M. Olin Law & Economics Working Paper No. 60
Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 107, Number 6, Part 1, pp. 1163-1198, December 1999

Abstract:

This paper examines the growth of government during this century as a result of giving women the right to vote. Using cross-sectional time-series data for 1870 to 1940, we examine state government expenditures and revenue as well as voting by U.S. House and Senate state delegations and the passage of a wide range of different state laws. Suffrage coincided with immediate increases in state government expenditures and revenue and more liberal voting patterns for federal representatives, and these effects continued growing over time as more women took advantage of the franchise. Contrary to many recent suggestions, the gender gap is not something that has arisen since the 1970s, and it helps explain why American government started growing when it did.

[newnhdad]

good thing Obama gives them free rubbers and pills because they’ll need to work harder to pay for the men..

[familyop]

The point in my last comment is that the political problem is difficult. And look around you to see who is really working as in actually building, producing or harvesting something of real value. Let's further analyze the problem.

Leviathan (Uncle Sam employs more people than you think)
National Review ^ | 02/03/2011 | Iain Murray
"...nearly 40 million Americans employed in some way by government."

Heavy Hitters: Top All-Time Donors, 1989-2014
http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.php
“2 American Fedn of State, County & Municipal Employees $60,949,129 [Democrat] 81% [Republican] 1%”

They discuss politics with Republicans while giving our money to Democrats.

About "70 million" people are receiving good incomes but are also steeped in debt and can't borrow more for big ticket items. Meanwhile,...

More Than 101 Million Working Age Americans Do Not Have A Job
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3005481/posts

[familyop]

And how productive is the business of regulating to prevent new competition? The following should provide an idea of where most of the debt is recirculating. Hard working folks described behind the following links (little irony there).

America’s Ruling Class — And the Perils of Revolution
http://spectator.org/archives/2010/07/16/americas-ruling-class-and-the/print

The Fragmenting of the New Class Elites, or, Downward Mobility
http://volokh.com/2011/10/31/the-fragmenting-of-the-new-class-elites-or-downward-mobility/

Environmentalism and the Leisure Class
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2835601/posts

The New Upper Class and the Real Reason We Dislike Them
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2843575/posts

Are you a member of the political class?
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/08/are_you_a_member_of_the_politi.html

Downton’s Class System — and Ours: We have a ruling class that despises the free market and does...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3024119/posts

[1010RD]

Feminism’s promise: we are equal to men and don’t need them.

Feminism’s reality: Uncle Sam is my sugar daddy.

[Rockitz]

Now this is the REAL "War on Women" foisted upon us by the very charitable leftists as long as the money is from others' pockets.

[NorthMountain]

Aiding the poor and widows is a Judeo-Christian value, and one commanded by God

God doesn't command that the State aid the poor and widows ... God doesn't command that the State take money at gunpoint to do it.

The command is on the individual.

[Stand Watch Listen]