Lately there have been claims from some in the press and Congress that SNAP, the food stamp program is ripe with fraud and abuse. This is simply false. The economic realities of the new America are the reason food stamp usage has risen so dramatically. Next time you go to the grocery, watch for the food stamp cards. You will be surprised just how many are using them and fraud has nothing to do with it. Most people are broke and the wages statistics back that fact up.The Economic Populist
Over 15% of America was on Food Stamps in April 2013
Robert Oak
but if you can show just one Cadillac driving welfare queen. Run it over and over on cable news, many people dependent on food stamps will vote to starve themselves in outrage.
ReplyDeleteThat's how the 1% stay in control in a representative democracy— just another version of divide and conquer.
ReplyDeletemiller,
ReplyDeleteThat "welfare queen" metaphor, to be effective, relies on the falsehood that the observer believes that "its my tax dollars" going to the welfare recipient...
They believe the govt needs tax revenues to be able to spend, which is false...
But I cant be too hard on these people as we have a President that believes "we're out of money" and a first runner up who believes "we are borrowing from the Chinese"...
All of this comes from over the top libertarianism, which is right now rampant and out of control and running wild thru the US since it started just before the 1850s... libertarianism seeks to deny authority...
It has reached its extreme level of success when we have a President who says: "we're out of money", this is like he is saying "I have no authority"... this is evidence of the the highest form of success of libertarianism against the human institution of government...
This is probably the same thing that used to drive the chaos inducing, metal-loving, pagan barbarians...
I cant see what else a libertarian could want in the government area if they already have the office of the US President firmly on their side in this...
rsp,