On Monday, the Huffington Post scrambled to tamp down growing opposition to America’s food stamp industrial complex—a system fueled by corporate interests who profit from the poverty programs that have exploded under President Barack Obama.
In a thinly-researched lead article titled “How Food Stamp Resentment Feeds Crabby Conservatism,” author Arthur Delaney presented dusty government studies from the 1990s and pre-Obama Administration food stamp fraud figures to posit that conservatives suffer from “cash register resentment” toward the nation’s 47,727,052 food stamp recipients, because some of them use their benefits to purchase king crab legs.“The idea is that the poor should feel poor at all times until they’re not poor anymore,” Delaney accused.
The article conceded that “actual food stamp fraud is a real thing” and cited one food stamp recipient who said selling food stamps for cash is widespread. “Everyone I know who’s been on food stamps have been involved in that scam,” said Staten Island resident Carl Clark.
What Delaney ignored, however, is the growing outrage from both the political left and right over the crony capitalism that has cropped up around the food stamp program (officially known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP).
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"I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer." - Benjamin Franklin
ReplyDeleteI remember that. Thanks for reminding me and posting. Excellent.
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