Let’s Move! Away From Food Stamps
Yesterday, in his Washington Times commentary “Obama’s Obesity Epidemic,” James Bovard points out that one possible cause of the “obesity epidemic” is government food stamps. Numerous studies going...
View ArticleSocialist Bernie Sanders Admits Charles Murray Was Right About The Welfare State
Charles Murray’s book Losing Ground: Social Policy, 1950-1980 was the explosive expose scholarly work that showed how “the war on poverty” and social welfare programs destroyed people by increasing...
View ArticleThe 2013 Food Stamp Surge Claimed One Fifth Of All Households
From CNS News: “Record 20% of Households on Food Stamps in 2013.” A record 20% of American households, one in five, were on food stamps in 2013, according to data from the U.S. Department of...
View ArticleSuddenly Walmart On Welfare Is Just Fine?
An amazing headline I’ve seen states, in its second half, that “food-stamp cuts hurt customers.” So you would think the story is about people who have been hurt by food stamp cuts. You would think...
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$400 Dollar Purse Stolen, with $200 Wallet Containing $800 Cash… and One EBT...
You can’t make this stuff up. A little sleuthing revealed that this location is in the “Country Club Estates” of Brunswick, Georgia. I seriously doubt all of the purses my wife has ever owned add up...
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Kids on Food Stamps “Spiked” Last Year
For children the use of food stamps spiked. Let’s praise the Obama recovery. There are two ways to look at this. One is that the economy is so bad that these children can’t really survive without food...
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Billionaires and Billions of Food Stamps
Forbes.com reported this week that, “A record 290 newcomers joined the Forbes billionaires list in the last year as world markets defied international turmoil. While wars, diseases and currency crises...
View ArticleMO GOP: Stop Buying Good Food with Food Stamps
If we are going to have food stamps, why tell recipients to stop buying good food? Why are MO Republicans imitating Michelle Obama’s lunch program with food stamps? I hate food stamps. I wish they...
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How Government Uses “Compassion” for Corporate Welfare
From the beginning the food stamp program was designed for corporate welfare. As Americans, we need a serious conversation about the risks involved when government gets involved in the marketplace....
View ArticleFood Stamps and the Low Labor Participation Rate
Why wouldn’t labor participation be low if people get free food but don’t have to look for work? Here is a really interesting headline from Fox News: “Most states waiving work requirements for food...
View ArticleMichelle Obama PR Program Raids Food Stamps
Andrea Peyser writes in the New York Post: On Nov. 1, sizable cuts were gouged into the federal food-stamp program (or, as it’s now called, SNAP, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), which feeds...
View ArticleCreate Dependency: The Pressure For “Temporary” Free Money To Become An...
First it was food stamps and now it is “unemployment benefits.” In the case of the former, Obama set up a “temporary” program that increased the amount of free money available to Americans. As I’ve...
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