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In article ,
 somebody else made that happen  wrote:

> 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-gro
> wth-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 łthe food-stamp president
> 
> 
> Read more: 
>
http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/commentary/article/Food-stamps-program-gro
> wth-out-of-control-3714101.php#ixzz27stIZkJf



In 2009, 57 percent of households headed by an immigrant (legal and illegal) 
with children (under 18) used at least one welfare program, compared to 39 
percent for native households with children.


http://www.cis.org/immigrant-welfare-use-2011


That head of lettuce you ay $1 for at Kroger, actually costs you $4, when 
you factor in the subsidies to the agricultural sector.

The benefits are provided by the American people, and it's cradle-to-grave 
assistance, and the recipients have a one-in-50 chance of becoming a net 
tax-payer rather than a net tax recipient.

Even Europe has figured this can't work for long.
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