{"id":14366,"date":"2012-06-20T13:48:43","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T17:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=14366"},"modified":"2012-06-20T13:48:43","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T17:48:43","slug":"how-much-are-we-actually-spending-on-food-stamps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=14366","title":{"rendered":"How Much Are We Actually Spending On Food Stamps ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The chart below\u00a0was posted yesterday at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2012\/06\/democrat-senate-votes-down-modest-food-stamp-reforms.php\">Power Line Blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"-Farm-Bill--Spending-Primarily-Directed-To-Food-Stamps\" src=\"http:\/\/1-ps.googleusercontent.com\/h\/www.powerlineblog.com\/admin\/ed-assets\/2012\/06\/800x600xFarm-Bill-Spending-Primarily-Directed-To-Food-Stamps.jpg.pagespeed.ic.5ZFuDAQzdz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"454\" height=\"340\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The chart was posted as part of an article on recent Congressional activity regarding the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Supplemental_Nutrition_Assistance_Program\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Food Stamps<\/a> Program. Power Line reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>So Senator <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Jeff Sessions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sessions.senate.gov\/\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Sessions<\/a> tried to introduce a minimal amount of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Balanced budget\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Balanced_budget\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">fiscal discipline<\/a> into the food stamp program by offering amendments that incorporated two basic reforms: 1) preventing states from waiving federal eligibility requirements for the program, and 2) eliminating the bonuses that the federal government now pays to states that deliberately swell the ranks of food stamp recipients. Given that the federal government pays 100% of the program\u2019s cost, such bonuses create perverse incentives in the states, with predictable consequences. And at least 28 states have <em>no limit whatsoever<\/em> on the financial assets a household can have, and still qualify for food stamps.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>One might think that a government running trillion-dollar-plus annual deficits would take common-sense reforms like those proposed by Senator Sessions to heart, but no: the Democrats voted them down. The prefer the irresponsible, free-spending status quo.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Technically the House of Representatives is supposed to be in charge of spending, but unfortunately, the Senate is so totally out of control, there is no hope for slowing the runaway spending. The Democrats in the Senate have refused to pass a budget for more than 1000 days. It&#8217;s time for a new Senate.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right; border-style: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=cb44170f-aef9-4707-9193-c7a26e6e288d\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chart below\u00a0was posted yesterday at\u00a0Power Line Blog: The chart was posted as part of an article on recent Congressional activity regarding the Food Stamps Program. Power Line reports: So Senator Jeff Sessions tried to introduce a minimal amount of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=14366\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[853,131,1058,127,386],"class_list":["post-14366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-democrats","tag-food-stamps","tag-jeff-sessions","tag-supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program","tag-united-states-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14369,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14366\/revisions\/14369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}