On Food Stamps and Disability Benefits

[John2]

27. I really don't

understand the argument against food stamps? You have to be earning a certain amount of income to even qualify for food stamps. This is just another attack against the poor and the working poor for assistance. I think the whole argument is ridiculous, coming from the wealthiest country in the world.

It is good Public policy, when you consider it on Health terms. Nobody should go hungry in this country. We send Aid to countries with populations suffering from malnutrion. This argument about food and helping the poor, is coming from people calling themselves Christians. I don't think their motives is about money or this country cannot afford the cost. It has more to do with who is receiving assistance. Most of it is coming from the Right of the political spectrum.

That is where you have most of your white supremacists groups and extreme religious ideology. Minorities also have the highest unemployment rates in this country, and the lowest incomes. The more people that you get in decent paying jobs, the less people will qualify for these programs. Until then, these programs are only a safety net. What they are trying to do is cut the safetynet out, instead of putting people to work, with good paying jobs. What both groups on the Right do, is label these people as lazy and immoral. It feeds into their racism.