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On 9/29/2012 12:02 PM, MikeHall@outlook.com wrote:
> Something you don't do
> very well.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/commentary/article/Food-stamps-program-grow
th-out-of-control-3714101.php

Two-thirds of the Agriculture Department's budget is devoted to welfare 
programs. The biggest is food stamps, which is now the nation's 
second-largest welfare program after Medicaid. Its inexorable growth 
during the past decade is a testament to government's self-generating 
expansion.

About 17 million people received food stamps back in 2000. Some 30 
million received them in 2008. Roughly 46 million people receive them 
today. From 1 in 50 Americans on food stamps at the program's national 
inception in the 1970s, 1 in 7 Americans are on them now.

Spending on food stamps doubled between 2001 and 2006, even though 
unemployment was low in those years. Even when the economy is projected 
to improve in the future, usage of food stamps will remain elevated 
above historic norms. Food Stamp Nation is here to stay.

One of its pillars is so-called categorical eligibility, which means 
that if someone is eligible for another welfare program, he is 
presumptively eligible for food stamps. In 2000, the Clinton 
administration issued regulations saying that merely getting a noncash 
welfare benefit could make someone eligible.

Categorical eligibility effectively wiped out the program's old asset 
test (i.e., you couldn't have $30,000 in the bank and get food stamps), 
although income limitations still apply. In the Obama stimulus, the work 
requirement was suspended, too, and hasn't been restored. The 
requirement had discouraged young, able-bodied nonparents from utilizing 
the program; there are millions of them on food stamps.

Newt Gingrich famously calls Barack Obama “the food-stamp president


Read more: 
http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/commentary/article/Food-stamps-program-grow
th-out-of-control-3714101.php#ixzz27stIZkJf
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