Obama's Food Stamp Fetish

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American Spectator:

The food stamp program, part of the Department of Agriculture, is pleased to be distributing the greatest amount of food stamps ever.

Meanwhile, the Park Service, also part of the Department of Agriculture, asks us to "Please Do Not Feed the Animals" because the animals may grow dependent and not learn to take care of themselves.

-- Recent viral e-mail (author unknown)

The irony is amusing but the implications for our nation's finances and essence are not.

A USDA web page on the Food Stamp Program (FSP), officially called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), offers some outdated data:

 

• The FSP serves approximately 1 in 11 Americans every month.

• 67 percent of those eligible for the Food Stamp Program (FSP) participated in 2006, up from 65 percent in 2005 and 54 percent in 2001. This demonstrates continued growth in the proportion of eligible people participating for the fourth consecutive year.

• Over 10 million children and low-income people have been added to the program since 2001 and we continue to promote FSP participation aggressively among eligible people.

• America invested $34.9 billion in the FSP in FY 2008.

• Currently, just over 27.7 million low-income people benefit from the FSP every month.

Note the use of the word "invested" when it comes to this welfare program. Even Robin Hood didn't consider himself an investor.

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