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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 1167978" data-attributes="member: 2189">Interesting read and considering the number of folk out of work or underemployed, not surprising either.  It's easy to only look at just one side of the Food Stamp or for that matter any welfare program and cast judgement.  Use to be standard fare on my part so I've been there, done that.  But from my own experience I know how so few will never actually follow the money and discover the benefactors of welfare is not the one sided picture we often think that it is.It is true that in the last 4 to 5 years, food stamp costs have doubled and it's also true that on some level part of the cause is the economic situation many find themselves in.  But how did we even get the food stamp program in the first place?  Was it really to help the starving and huddled masses among us?  Well not exactly.Government Accountability Institute Report:  <a href="http://g-a-i.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/GAI-Report-ProfitsfromPoverty-FINAL.pdf" target="_blank">Profits from Poverty, How Food Stamps Benefit Corporations</a> (page 4)Continue reading the Food Stamp history and you'll see via executive order or legislation that regardless of political party, everyone on some level was eating on this cake.  Even the Reagan Revolution of the 80's.  And the Bush and Company who held the 3 branches of gov't was an equal player too.<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-05/food-stamps-the-new-normal.html" target="_blank">source</a>Even the <a href="http://blog.heritage.org/2013/05/27/the-facts-about-food-stamps-everyone-should-hear/" target="_blank">Heritage Foundation</a> admits the growth in Food Stamps is across the board.Taking the GOP faithful's argument that the Bush years was a truly booming economy (and then Obama killed it), why did the Bush White House and the GOP controlled Congress feel it necessary to double Food Stamp spending?  Maybe the better question would be, in what form of welfare was this doubling of spending actually presenting itself and to whose benefit?  Hmmm!To understand in the direction you should start to look rather than always looking where they want you to look, I'll leave you with 2 quotes.  The first is quoted as the leadoff to the Government Accountability Institute's Report and the 2nd is from the father of the modern contemporary Conservative movement in one the late Irving Kristol, father of Weekly Standard/Fox News Bill Kristol.  When you grasp the first, the 2nd should be a tipping point for an Ah-Ha moment unless you want to just continue to be dishonest with yourself.Irving Kristol, circa 1976'  Essay, The Republican FutureAs I've been trying to tell so many of you "conservative" GOPers for the last several years, you've actually arrived at your own self inflicted nightmare!  And the bleeding heart liberal democrat who dislikes the evil corporations, they too may have some soul searching and self examinations to do too as the real benefactors of poverty insure the problem gets worse and never better.<img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/FeltTip/peaceful.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":peaceful:" title="Peaceful    :peaceful:" data-shortname=":peaceful:" /></blockquote>

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