Food-Stamp Flood

When the food-stamp program was started in the 1970s, it was expected to assist 1-out-of-50 Americans in special need of food.

Now, 1-out-of-7, or 45 million Americans are using food stamps, at a cost of $78 billion. The Agricultural Department runs radio and TV ads urging more people to obtain the free food, even saying that food stamps help lose weight! Some 39 states have no realistic asset test to measure qualifications for the dole. Wealthy families that have no one working can sidle up to the trough.

It’s disgusting. The few enumerated powers granted to the federal government by the Constitution say nothing about food stamps. This is one more unconstitutional program. 

One among thousands.

Government programs usually become obese. The people who run them have no way to measure their success except by counting the number of employees they manage and the number of dollars they dispense.

If taxes were lowered and government vacated the compassion business, plenty of money would become available for the poor and the hungry. This is the way it was many years ago in America, and the way it would be again.