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Breitbart: More People on Food Stamps Than Populations of 24 States Combined

mary anne24 Wrote: Nov 24, 2012 2:24 PM
Are these trolls really trying to tell us that half - HALF - of America can't work because they are helpless and too dumb. I don't believe it - get out of the way and these people will be better off
Gayle__CO Wrote: Nov 24, 2012 2:36 PM
According to Harry's Reed, Half of America is not sober. That's it in a nutshell. Obama was elected by a bunch of drunk people, who made their way to the voting booth with the help of the likes of Harry's Reed.

What a sobering thought that is!
Under President Obama the participation rate in the food stamp program has skyrocketed—one in seven Americans now receives food stamps. To keep up with the demands of the burgeoning program, spending has thus “doubled from roughly $39 billion in 2008 to an estimated $85 billion in 2012,” and nearly quadrupled since 2000. According to Heritage, “Today, the food stamps program is one of the largest and the fastest growing of the roughly 80 welfare programs funded by the federal government.” With that said, brace yourself for Breitbart’s findings: “The number of individuals on food stamps now exceeds the...
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