Cutting a billion or two or three from food stamps is stupid. The yearly deficits are under $500 billion now.
Food stamps aren't the problem; huge loopholes in the tax code that give tens upon tens of billions of dollars in corporate welfare ARE the problem.
We can afford to help people out who need a little help; we can't afford to keep giving the Michele Bachmann family farm $250K a year in subsidies her family doesn't need.
The only negative of all the new jobs created is that trickle-down economics have left us with primarily with a service economy where a few people own everything while tens of millions are now working full-time hours or more and being paid so low that they actually need Food Stamp assistance.
It makes no sense. These corporations actually encourage their workers to get food stamps.
We now live in a world where people are working tons of hours and their companies are raking in billions instead of mere millions. In the old days, if your company was making millions, you'd get a Xmas bonus and a raise. Now you work so the company store can make billions but not pay you enough so that you can even support yourself.
Just makes no sense. We're a rich country. We can pay our legion of minimum wage workers a few dollars more per hour. We could practically eliminate all the taxpayer money going into social assistance that way, but Republicans are against raising the minimum wage because then it would take away their talking point where they love to blame poor people for everything.
