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ENTITLEMENTS: Food Stamp Follies
« on: March 26, 2008, 12:56:34 PM »
The next time libtards start complaining about food stamp allotments -
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2008/03/26/more-food-stamp-follies-time-columbus-dispatch

Here we go again.

A March 22 Columbus Dispatch report by Catherine Candisky on increased Food Stamp usage in Ohio repeats the tired "$1 per meal for food" canard:

"Food stamps provide only about $1 per person, per meal. Who in the world is buying groceries with that?" asked Lisa Hamler-Fugitt, executive director of the Ohio Association of Second Harvest Food Bank.

On average, food stamps are now providing less than two weeks of groceries.

"There's the presumption that folks have the cash to make up the rest. Well, they don't" .....


Sigh. As noted time, and time, and time, and time again, the benefits (called "Maximum Allotments" by the government) for families with no other resources are higher (graphic link is to related page at the USDA web site): http://www.fns.usda.gov/fsp/applicant_recipients/fs_Res_Ben_Elig.htm

Follow these links -
http://www.bizzyblog.com/2007/04/28/food-stamp-follies-oregon-governors-publicity-stunt-and-reporting-on-it-are-wrong-on-the-facts/
http://www.bizzyblog.com/2007/05/22/the-bogus-food-stamp-challenge-spreads-gullible-media-eats-it-up/
http://www.bizzyblog.com/2007/06/08/food-stamp-follies-mostly-continue-as-does-old-medias-gullible-coverage/
http://www.bizzyblog.com/2007/09/20/open-e-mail-to-the-toledo-blade-regarding-its-food-stamp-challenge-report/
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