@scar3xcr0

6 years ago

Numerous studies by our government and NGOs have shown that food stamps are one of the best ways to get people out of poverty and have numerous other benifits. They act as a trickle up economic stimulus, unlike tax breaks to the wealthy that often are sent to overseas accounts, spent on forign goods, or just saved. With food stamps the majority are spent every month. At this point the money passes to the retail busineses that sold the products, many of which are small businesses. These businesses reinvest the money in more products to replace the ones food stamps bought, improvements to the store and increased employee hours. Many large corperations benefit as well most notably walmart who is one of the biggest advocates for the food stamp program because it is such a large contributing factor to their sucsess. Most food sold here is made in the usa so food product manufacturers also benefit from the program. That food has to be grown by some one and most food on our shelves was grown here so the money trickles to the famers who use it to reinvest in their farms and improve their conditions. Far more money is given out to farms as subsidies than as food stamps. But the rich are the real welfare queens. The govt only charges $5 an acre per year to many mine companies and they can take anything they find. Military hardware is often bought at prices that are ludicrously high becuase of the connections and crooked dealing between government officials and the arms industry. Everyone still remembers when they bailed out the banks with billions of dollars because they were "too big to fail" and then they executives who screwed the pooch and caused a recession gave themselves bonuses. The govt gives out far more handouts to the wealthy and to corperations that made corrupt under the table deals and are screwing the American public to this day. You realize food stamps are good if you actually understand and appreciate capitalism.

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