Food Stamps for Everyone

By Robin Itzler

Editor's Note: This is a commentary in Robin's weekly newsletter Patriot Neighbors.  Any cartoons are added by me.  If you wish to get the full edition, E-mail her at PatriotNeighbors@yahoo.com to get on her list, it's free. RK

 

The Schumer Shutdown started solely because feckless Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer wanted to show some muscle against big, bad orange man. It has revealed a lot to MAGA Americans. Department of Education must go: (Communist) Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, belches daily that states cannot handle education (funding, accountability or innovation) unless the Dept. of Ed. guides it on a federal level.

Cough-Cough, but for more than one month, there has been no Dept. of Ed guiding anything and guess what, education continued. Talk about miracles! Do you know why? All the major streams of education money come to the states through long-established formulas and scheduled appropriations. Government open or closed, it’s a set schedule that goes directly to states and the states handle their education needs.

Food Stamps must be reduced: In 2010, federal SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) spending was $68.3 BILLION. In 2022, it zoomed up to $119.5 BILLION. Why are 42+ MILLION people – many illegals – collecting food stamps?

• 2025 12.3% of the American population
• 2000 06.1% of the American population

Currently, one in eight Americans receive food stamps. To qualify, recipients' incomes must generally be at or below 130% of the federal poverty line — less than $35,000 a year for a family of three. Yes, there are Americans in temporary need of food stamps, and we must help them, but:

• How many recipients could work but choose not to?
• How many collect SNAP and sell the cards on the street for luxuries?
• Why are food stamp recipients using Door Dash, etc. to deliver their food?  
• Why are ILLEGAL ALIENS receiving food stamps?

Democrats rightly believe that the more people depend on government for their basic needs, the more likely they are to vote for the party that keeps giving them free this, free that, free everything. The SNAP program must be revamped! To share your thoughts with Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins:

Email: feedback@usda.gov and/or press@usda.gov Write: 1400 Independence Ave., S.W., Washington, DC 20250