Every person I've ever known who has been on Food Stamps or "WIC" would have been just fine without the government handouts had they been better at managing their money. When I was in college, my housemates were on food stamps but always had money for drugs. I also worked with a gal whose husband had a good paying city job with the water department. She discovered she could qualify for WIC and as she told me, "why not? It's available." Don't get me started on subsidized school lunch programs. I remember plenty of peanut butter sandwiches for lunch and love them to this day.
It is this exact kind of entitlement attitude that has lead to much of the waste in government. When we allowed (mainly) women to stop allowing shaming as a means to get everyone to behave accordingly, people stopped being ashamed of acting badly so they did it more. Remember when it use to be shameful to be a pregnant teenager in Highschool? Not anymore! It is mainly women who did this b/c men are not afraid to tell each other the truth were as women try to not offend people; they seek to avoid confrontations at any cost.
I assumed you were slinging insults b/c of the women comment but after reading your other replies I see your just another entitled individual who believes those who produce must provide for those who do not.
i see comprehension is another challenge for you. Simply highlight exactly where I said in my posts that I want to toss the poor and disabled out for not producing. My own mother is disabled and gets assistance and do you know what our family is doing? We are helping her out b/c we know its not everyone else's responsibility to do that.
Saw that attitude a lot when I worked with Medicaid! My aunt told my folks to take everything offered because “you earned it.” Yes THEY did. But others take advantage when they didn’t earn it.
🤦♀️ There are none so blind as those who won’t see. Bottom line is: no one begrudges American CITIZENS that need help BUT people who don’t qualify have been STEALING from those truly needy for decades and it needs to STOP NOW.
Your taxpayer money is being wasted on payouts to right wing billionaires and right wing conmen. Not feeding poor people. Newsmax is a right wing billionaire owned propaganda outlet, and in a just society every single one of those liars would be arrested and forced to admit they were paid liars for a bunch of rich people who don’t want to pay their fair share and would rather steal your money and lie about it.
Both sides are guilty of having a hand in the cookie jar, agreed. But I have no more fucks to give regarding ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, repeat law breakers and anyone who scams “the system” I don’t defend any of this behavior regardless of what color you are or what religious or political beliefs you hold. I’m a vigilante to equal application of the law.
When I was recovering from surgery, we got food stamps. The kids got school lunches. I was able to get my life-saving surgery and my kids to get checkups & care when they were sick because of those programs you think are fraudulent. Never bought drugs. After recovering, I went back to being a tax-paying worker bee. My children, now adults, are as well. And no. I’m not in the minority.
Research has consistently found that children who grow up in families receiving public assistance are more likely to receive benefits as adults than those from non-recipient families.
• Example: A well-known longitudinal study by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) found that adults whose parents received welfare were about twice as likely to use welfare themselves at some point.
• Studies from economists like Ann Huff Stevens and Jessamyn Schaller (2011) and Susan Mayer (1997) show similar intergenerational correlations in welfare
Child #1 enlisted in the Marines, got his scholarship money for college, got his degree & now makes over $100k managing a database for a major corporation. Daughter has her Masters & is a Nurse Practitioner. Son #2 is a legal assistant & manages the lawyer’s office.
During this shutdown, how about on 11/1 when the EBTs aren’t reloaded (to unheard of ridiculous amounts), USDA needs to cut off permanently all illegals receiving this benefit. USDA needs to federally restrict any food prepackaged (junk food) so the benefits are actually for healthy nutrition.
Just one convenient thought…..the remarkable simultaneous rise in both illegal immigrants and SNAP recipients under Biden, put two and two together and concluded that if the program gets pruned, millions of illegals may voluntarily self-deport.
‘Not only did he balloon eligibility, but Biden also expanded the delicious universe of what kind of wonderful stuff can be purchased under the program, with alert social media investigators discovering Snappers are competing for essentially anything sold in a high-end grocery store’
Almost like the last four years of Trump made people poorer (they did) and that “illegal immigrants” were in fact a code word for poor minorities right wingers hate and want to brainwash your stupid pea brain into thinking are evil.
There are nutritionally decent packaged products so the real change needed is to stop restricting the use of SNAP for produce.... I think the new Medicare add-on has that idea.. The economics of produce prices should take care of the rest....ttyl
Why is it this misinformation is not ever shut down for what it is. This post and newscast is misinformation. Ask for receipts when this bullshit is spewed. Check it out u are being manipulated
The Deep State Department of Education run primarily by Democrats had basically one mission, to make sure children can not read nor think critically. This is just one of the reasons why. Small minds are easier to control where "feeling" wins the point over thinking and logic.
Sub in Repubs and you’ve got it! They do not want any critical thinking going on in any school. Dems demand that a free and appropriate education is guaranteed to every student, no matter what color his/ her skin may be.
Was this only on Newsmax? Unfortunate, if so, as the people who really need to see it probably wouldn't be watching that network. Great piece, though. The truth shall set us free!
Democrats know giving free money via entitlements is how they win elections, and all politicians know that trying to take away an entitlement, even if it's warranted, gets them 100% negative media coverage and could cost them their congressional seat. So it's no surprise, given the circumstances, that politician won't go after entitlements and the programs only expand.
A Congressional Budget Office analysis said 4.8 million people who would lose health insurance by 2034 under the Trump-backed bill would be able-bodied adults between 19 and 64 who have no depend
The Same CBO under Obama that costed Amnesty for the Golden Number 11 million illegals pre BidenFlation @ $6,4 Ttillion with a T.
Now that Border Czar Kamala let in over 20 million in four years on top of what was really 30 million already, amesty would cost an obsurd $300+ Trillion including BidenFlation.
The interesting part of their cost analysis, which historically is always way low regardless of who is in the White House, is that $420,000/illegal given amnesty would occur After retirement at Age 67. Which pretty much destroys the “they contribute so much” BS of the left. Who just want to import more welfare votes.
Love how facts don’t matter to your crowd, only power, status and $$$. All 🌈s you can never keep.
But have fun chasing them down your white rabbit holes. Until your last breath. Where you beg for another chance. Why, next time you’ll get it right by golly.
One sentence in this revealing article says it all: Punish self reliance. But you’re quite right, Americans should be outraged that once again the dems are supporting everyone who wants to dismantle and conquer our once great nation
My senior brother has a need for SNAP so it does affect him. So he’s as American as apple pie. He’s found a part time part time job to help feed himself btw he has heart issues . But there are a lot of poor seniors who need food stamps. So while there are scoundrel illegals who use and abuse, what about our struggling citizens who need this $$ help.
Nope. The CR kept up the same spending as Biden. The Ds wanted to increase it. Rs said no. Keep it the same. To get past the Senate it requires 60 votes. Not 50. Ds voted no. Rs voted to keep the gov open.
It's very sad your brother and many others are in this position. Now is the time for friends, neighbors, food banks, and churches step up and cover the need. Hopefully, this will lead to meaningful renovation of an essential benefit for those CITIZENS truly in need.
Churches do step up. Our church feeds 120 families monthly in a small town. People who attend a church that offers this support need to willingly give what they can to help. Our government should not be responsible for every need we have. Communities need to step up instead of NGOs that dole out more for their salaries than actually helping.
i worked my whole life and never needed assistance. i was a hospice care worker in both private home and nursing home settings when i was forced to be covid vaccinated to continue to work (that is to eat, pay rent, etc). i had horrendous adverse reactions, the worst of which was spinal inflamation which ended my ability to work. i had no income, had to declare bankruptcy, was on the verge of homelessness at 62 after a lifetime of hard work. my unvaccinated friends took me in and i had to apply for medicaid and snap for the first time in my life. i found a brave doctor online who risked his career for people like me and prescribed me repurposed drugs, supplements and vitamins that helped me reduce my pain and damage to tolerable levels, however it appears i have suffered permanent spinal damage. eventually i got soc sec payments, low as they are and found a new living arrangement and stopped the snap and medicaid because i no longer need it. be careful of your judgements, generalizations and assumptions about those who need assistance.
Obviously, we are speaking to those who are physically/medically able to work. Many could work from home in customer support for companies. And all illegals should not qualify. Glad you were able to get medical help & get back on your feet!
If the dept of agriculture I believe being the responsible party for that program, were to limit snap benefits to only whole food, nothing in cans, nothing in bags, no fucking chips, and these wastrels had to learn how to cook, or starve, you would see a massive fat reduction in this country. Dindoos are at tte point that if it weren’t for government handouts of our money, they wouldn’t exist. You think shaqueshia would keep pumping out babies if she was getting more cash for each? WTF? Stop paying them to create criminals, feral dogs, and they will depopulate.
The other issue the pundit declines to address is the fact that many people working full time at places like Walmart qualify for snap because large corporations aren’t paying a living wage. So snap is really a form of corporate welfare, subsidizing the workforce of major corporations who realize greater profits as a result
Look, I get it that there aren't going to be good statistics on this, and I know that people use stolen SSNs to work. But how many people do you really think are doing this? And are a few freeloaders enough to justify cutting off benefits for millions of Americans?
It's not a few freeloaders. People on SNAP include people running cash-heavy businesses like residential construction/renovation/repair, landscaping, cleaning, etc. They're just not reporting the income, so officially they fall into the income brackets that qualify them for SNAP.
Another demographic is illegal alien parents with U.S. citizen kids. The kids are what qualify the household for subsidized rent, subsidized daycare, and SNAP.
During the Biden admin the pro-unskilled immigration NGOs began a new tactic of telling illegal aliens to just turn themselves in at the border and file an asylum application because it would give them legal status to be here and make them eligible for certain benefits tied into our refugee/asylum program. It also completely overwhelmed the immigration courts, which was the intent.
Having said that, it's not a surprise that the heaviest participation in SNAP are some of the lowest quality immigrants brought in by Clinton, Obama, and Biden: Somalians, Haitians, and Afghans. At least some of the Afghans can claim to have aided U.S. forces in Afghanistan. The Haitians and Somalians were a massive mistake to bring in.
42 million on SNAP indicates either our country needs fundamental changes to the economic system or we need fundamental changes to the welfare system. Maybe both.
I've dug pretty deep on this issue, and I encourage you to do the same. SNAP dependents boil down to three categories: people who need temporary help, low IQ breeders who have no intention of ever getting a real job, and fraudsters gaming the system and using SNAP for food so they can spend the rest of their cash on other purchases.
Gaming the benefits system is great sport for some demographics.
I found Newsmax more balanced than most. The left also claims that the illegals do not receive free healthcare, and that’s also false. Medi-Cal est. annual cost just for illegals is >$9.5B. The fed govt covers the majority of the budget through the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP), while CA covers the rest . The federal share is nearly $107.5B of the state's $175B annual Medi-Cal budget. Medi-Cal is available to anyone, regardless of immigration status.
Maybe you. I don't watch TV and I don't listen to the government. I burned everything they ever gave me, my drivers license, social security card and birth certificate. Fuck the media.
Fuck the government and fuck anyone and everyone that obeys their baalshit laws.
Finnerty's MATH or LOGIC is flat out WRONG...........................
Try again... 59% of the illegals are on SNAP -- but there are about 20 MILLION ILLEGALS...
Hence 11.8 MILLION ILLEGALS are on SNAP......
BUT the fact was that there were 42 MILLION on SNAP...
.....hence 30.2 MILLION on SNAP are AMERICANS....
THAT means
MOST on SNAP ARE AMERICAN............................
Shocked?
Our American SAFETY NET -- meant for the 1 in 10 that slip up
WAS being DAMAGED by Sanctuary States luring and favoring the 20million ECONOMIC MIGRANTS to the detriment of 30million Americans..
SANCTUARY STATE did the crime of luring and THROWING MONEY AT FOREIGN MIGRANTS and
thus CHOSE TO DAMAGE our safety net
SO SANCTUARY STATES SHOULD PAY FOR THE DAMAGE.... out of their federal SUBSIDIES...?
Doability?............................
Per AI-gemini.........
Based on figures from fiscal year (FY) 2025, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) requires approximately $2 billion per week from the federal government.
This amount covers both benefit payments and the federal share of administrative costs.
AND
For federal subsidies to Sanctuary STATES,......
in Fiscal Year 2022,
California received approximately $13.5 billion per month --> $3.3 billion per week and
Oregon received about $1.66 billion per month --> $0.4 billion per week .
Washington's federal funding for its last fiscal year was about $2.25 billion per month --> $0.5 billion per week..
Check the research yourself.. Researchers generally use a "residual method," which subtracts the estimated number of legal immigrants from the total number of foreign-born people counted in national surveys.
The highest point was 14 million so I added almost 50% more for 'fake immigration court processing under Biden'....
BUT
even if you hysterically grasp at 30million, that 59% is then 18million,
IMPLYING 24million **Americans** are living on SNAP....
24million who should have the American Safety Net
which Is still 'MOST' of those on SNAP, 57% of SNAP... ttyl
The states already handle it. SNAP goes through the states. That’s how we get such a bloated program full of corruption. The state programs are as bad as the people on food stamps. Whenever that free money is doled out, a bunch of useless folks are going to line up to get it, then do anything to keep it.
Thank you for informing me about the states' role. It is a very tired system fraught with corruption and untruthful receivers, legal or criminal, of this aid. It should receive the ax if it is that corrupted.
Every person I've ever known who has been on Food Stamps or "WIC" would have been just fine without the government handouts had they been better at managing their money. When I was in college, my housemates were on food stamps but always had money for drugs. I also worked with a gal whose husband had a good paying city job with the water department. She discovered she could qualify for WIC and as she told me, "why not? It's available." Don't get me started on subsidized school lunch programs. I remember plenty of peanut butter sandwiches for lunch and love them to this day.
Same experience for me and mine
It is this exact kind of entitlement attitude that has lead to much of the waste in government. When we allowed (mainly) women to stop allowing shaming as a means to get everyone to behave accordingly, people stopped being ashamed of acting badly so they did it more. Remember when it use to be shameful to be a pregnant teenager in Highschool? Not anymore! It is mainly women who did this b/c men are not afraid to tell each other the truth were as women try to not offend people; they seek to avoid confrontations at any cost.
So you’re an inbred dumb fuck. Got it.
I assumed you were slinging insults b/c of the women comment but after reading your other replies I see your just another entitled individual who believes those who produce must provide for those who do not.
By your standards, I produce, dumb fuck. And you would throw the poor and disabled out for “not producing”.
i see comprehension is another challenge for you. Simply highlight exactly where I said in my posts that I want to toss the poor and disabled out for not producing. My own mother is disabled and gets assistance and do you know what our family is doing? We are helping her out b/c we know its not everyone else's responsibility to do that.
Saw that attitude a lot when I worked with Medicaid! My aunt told my folks to take everything offered because “you earned it.” Yes THEY did. But others take advantage when they didn’t earn it.
I don’t believe you.
🤦♀️ There are none so blind as those who won’t see. Bottom line is: no one begrudges American CITIZENS that need help BUT people who don’t qualify have been STEALING from those truly needy for decades and it needs to STOP NOW.
Who are you to say who should and shouldn’t get help?
A taxpayer they are robbing to support things I don’t want my hard earned money wasted on. That’s who!
Your taxpayer money is being wasted on payouts to right wing billionaires and right wing conmen. Not feeding poor people. Newsmax is a right wing billionaire owned propaganda outlet, and in a just society every single one of those liars would be arrested and forced to admit they were paid liars for a bunch of rich people who don’t want to pay their fair share and would rather steal your money and lie about it.
Both sides are guilty of having a hand in the cookie jar, agreed. But I have no more fucks to give regarding ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, repeat law breakers and anyone who scams “the system” I don’t defend any of this behavior regardless of what color you are or what religious or political beliefs you hold. I’m a vigilante to equal application of the law.
When I was recovering from surgery, we got food stamps. The kids got school lunches. I was able to get my life-saving surgery and my kids to get checkups & care when they were sick because of those programs you think are fraudulent. Never bought drugs. After recovering, I went back to being a tax-paying worker bee. My children, now adults, are as well. And no. I’m not in the minority.
Declaring November a SNAP free month has nice ring to it.
Recipients can learn how dependent they are on the government.
They can stop living a life of fear of loss of support.
They could find the motivation to declare independence and become self sufficient.
Their self esteem, pride and confidence will return.
They will be positive role models to family and friends.
November could also be Rat Out Your Neighbor for fraudulently collecting benefits for a cash reward.
Taxpayers win too!
Research has consistently found that children who grow up in families receiving public assistance are more likely to receive benefits as adults than those from non-recipient families.
• Example: A well-known longitudinal study by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) found that adults whose parents received welfare were about twice as likely to use welfare themselves at some point.
• Studies from economists like Ann Huff Stevens and Jessamyn Schaller (2011) and Susan Mayer (1997) show similar intergenerational correlations in welfare
Child #1 enlisted in the Marines, got his scholarship money for college, got his degree & now makes over $100k managing a database for a major corporation. Daughter has her Masters & is a Nurse Practitioner. Son #2 is a legal assistant & manages the lawyer’s office.
There’s lies, damn lies, & statistics.
During this shutdown, how about on 11/1 when the EBTs aren’t reloaded (to unheard of ridiculous amounts), USDA needs to cut off permanently all illegals receiving this benefit. USDA needs to federally restrict any food prepackaged (junk food) so the benefits are actually for healthy nutrition.
1. “Illegals” are not on it, that’s a lie.
2. You guys were the ones who screamed “THE GOVERNMENT HAS NO PLACE REGULATING WHAT PEOPLE EAT”.
Yes they are. Biden administration set them up with free housing, EBT cards and cash.
Source.
Troll
Just one convenient thought…..the remarkable simultaneous rise in both illegal immigrants and SNAP recipients under Biden, put two and two together and concluded that if the program gets pruned, millions of illegals may voluntarily self-deport.
‘Not only did he balloon eligibility, but Biden also expanded the delicious universe of what kind of wonderful stuff can be purchased under the program, with alert social media investigators discovering Snappers are competing for essentially anything sold in a high-end grocery store’
Biden doubled the program in four years. Doubled!!
Your source is some brainless right wing dumb fuck. Amazing.
Almost like the last four years of Trump made people poorer (they did) and that “illegal immigrants” were in fact a code word for poor minorities right wingers hate and want to brainwash your stupid pea brain into thinking are evil.
That two years of his first term was under Dem controlled House. Try again.
😂😂😂
Actually, IRS data proved that the lower and middle classes benefited the most under Trump 1.0. Everyone benefitted, but not proportionally.
You give your source for believing they aren’t!
Excellent idea cutting the illegals out....
There are nutritionally decent packaged products so the real change needed is to stop restricting the use of SNAP for produce.... I think the new Medicare add-on has that idea.. The economics of produce prices should take care of the rest....ttyl
You are clueless and don’t have the facts.
You are indeed clueless and with no facts.
Well , much to your ignorance “illigals” are not eligible.
Why is it this misinformation is not ever shut down for what it is. This post and newscast is misinformation. Ask for receipts when this bullshit is spewed. Check it out u are being manipulated
The Deep State Department of Education run primarily by Democrats had basically one mission, to make sure children can not read nor think critically. This is just one of the reasons why. Small minds are easier to control where "feeling" wins the point over thinking and logic.
💯 excellent point. This has been a primary goal of educational industrial complex and we now see the results at every turn.
You’re the guy with the small mind though. You are the one who is being controlled.
Troll
Guy who lives in basic reality.
Sub in Repubs and you’ve got it! They do not want any critical thinking going on in any school. Dems demand that a free and appropriate education is guaranteed to every student, no matter what color his/ her skin may be.
Was this only on Newsmax? Unfortunate, if so, as the people who really need to see it probably wouldn't be watching that network. Great piece, though. The truth shall set us free!
Yes, this was only on Newsmax. Thank you for your support.
You may want to correct your math... ttyl
Democrats know giving free money via entitlements is how they win elections, and all politicians know that trying to take away an entitlement, even if it's warranted, gets them 100% negative media coverage and could cost them their congressional seat. So it's no surprise, given the circumstances, that politician won't go after entitlements and the programs only expand.
What are the #s of able bodied 18-50 work force who don’t want to work at least 20 hours a week who are getting these benefits?
0%
Receipts?
A Congressional Budget Office analysis said 4.8 million people who would lose health insurance by 2034 under the Trump-backed bill would be able-bodied adults between 19 and 64 who have no depend
The same CBO essentially controlled by the Right? That one?
The Same CBO under Obama that costed Amnesty for the Golden Number 11 million illegals pre BidenFlation @ $6,4 Ttillion with a T.
Now that Border Czar Kamala let in over 20 million in four years on top of what was really 30 million already, amesty would cost an obsurd $300+ Trillion including BidenFlation.
The interesting part of their cost analysis, which historically is always way low regardless of who is in the White House, is that $420,000/illegal given amnesty would occur After retirement at Age 67. Which pretty much destroys the “they contribute so much” BS of the left. Who just want to import more welfare votes.
Wow… I’m not sure where you’re getting your information from, because none of that happened. At all.
Love how facts don’t matter to your crowd, only power, status and $$$. All 🌈s you can never keep.
But have fun chasing them down your white rabbit holes. Until your last breath. Where you beg for another chance. Why, next time you’ll get it right by golly.
God Bless, 🙏🙏🙏
One sentence in this revealing article says it all: Punish self reliance. But you’re quite right, Americans should be outraged that once again the dems are supporting everyone who wants to dismantle and conquer our once great nation
Yeah well
My senior brother has a need for SNAP so it does affect him. So he’s as American as apple pie. He’s found a part time part time job to help feed himself btw he has heart issues . But there are a lot of poor seniors who need food stamps. So while there are scoundrel illegals who use and abuse, what about our struggling citizens who need this $$ help.
Tell the Democrats to open the government. 60 Senators need to vote Yes. Every R voted yes. Only 2 Ds did.
Rampant lying .Total BS.
Nope. The CR kept up the same spending as Biden. The Ds wanted to increase it. Rs said no. Keep it the same. To get past the Senate it requires 60 votes. Not 50. Ds voted no. Rs voted to keep the gov open.
It's very sad your brother and many others are in this position. Now is the time for friends, neighbors, food banks, and churches step up and cover the need. Hopefully, this will lead to meaningful renovation of an essential benefit for those CITIZENS truly in need.
Churches do step up. Our church feeds 120 families monthly in a small town. People who attend a church that offers this support need to willingly give what they can to help. Our government should not be responsible for every need we have. Communities need to step up instead of NGOs that dole out more for their salaries than actually helping.
Yeah, that doesn’t work. It’s not remotely feasible.
Yeah, that doesn’t work. It’s not remotely feasible.
Agreed that there are some. Cutting down on the fraud will help those truly needy.
i worked my whole life and never needed assistance. i was a hospice care worker in both private home and nursing home settings when i was forced to be covid vaccinated to continue to work (that is to eat, pay rent, etc). i had horrendous adverse reactions, the worst of which was spinal inflamation which ended my ability to work. i had no income, had to declare bankruptcy, was on the verge of homelessness at 62 after a lifetime of hard work. my unvaccinated friends took me in and i had to apply for medicaid and snap for the first time in my life. i found a brave doctor online who risked his career for people like me and prescribed me repurposed drugs, supplements and vitamins that helped me reduce my pain and damage to tolerable levels, however it appears i have suffered permanent spinal damage. eventually i got soc sec payments, low as they are and found a new living arrangement and stopped the snap and medicaid because i no longer need it. be careful of your judgements, generalizations and assumptions about those who need assistance.
Obviously, we are speaking to those who are physically/medically able to work. Many could work from home in customer support for companies. And all illegals should not qualify. Glad you were able to get medical help & get back on your feet!
If the dept of agriculture I believe being the responsible party for that program, were to limit snap benefits to only whole food, nothing in cans, nothing in bags, no fucking chips, and these wastrels had to learn how to cook, or starve, you would see a massive fat reduction in this country. Dindoos are at tte point that if it weren’t for government handouts of our money, they wouldn’t exist. You think shaqueshia would keep pumping out babies if she was getting more cash for each? WTF? Stop paying them to create criminals, feral dogs, and they will depopulate.
The other issue the pundit declines to address is the fact that many people working full time at places like Walmart qualify for snap because large corporations aren’t paying a living wage. So snap is really a form of corporate welfare, subsidizing the workforce of major corporations who realize greater profits as a result
First, just asserting that it is "illegal aliens" who are on food stamps is not proof - and my understanding is that they are ineligible.
Second, there's some sleight of hand with those statistics on nationality. 45% of Afghan immigrants could well be less than 1% of all recipients.
So color me skeptical about what this Newsmax pundit has to say.
All the people who filed fraudulent asylum applications are technically not illegal immigrants.
They are not citizens though, and shouldn’t be eligible for these benefits.
Look, I get it that there aren't going to be good statistics on this, and I know that people use stolen SSNs to work. But how many people do you really think are doing this? And are a few freeloaders enough to justify cutting off benefits for millions of Americans?
It's not a few freeloaders. People on SNAP include people running cash-heavy businesses like residential construction/renovation/repair, landscaping, cleaning, etc. They're just not reporting the income, so officially they fall into the income brackets that qualify them for SNAP.
Another demographic is illegal alien parents with U.S. citizen kids. The kids are what qualify the household for subsidized rent, subsidized daycare, and SNAP.
During the Biden admin the pro-unskilled immigration NGOs began a new tactic of telling illegal aliens to just turn themselves in at the border and file an asylum application because it would give them legal status to be here and make them eligible for certain benefits tied into our refugee/asylum program. It also completely overwhelmed the immigration courts, which was the intent.
Having said that, it's not a surprise that the heaviest participation in SNAP are some of the lowest quality immigrants brought in by Clinton, Obama, and Biden: Somalians, Haitians, and Afghans. At least some of the Afghans can claim to have aided U.S. forces in Afghanistan. The Haitians and Somalians were a massive mistake to bring in.
And you know this how?
42 million on SNAP indicates either our country needs fundamental changes to the economic system or we need fundamental changes to the welfare system. Maybe both.
I've dug pretty deep on this issue, and I encourage you to do the same. SNAP dependents boil down to three categories: people who need temporary help, low IQ breeders who have no intention of ever getting a real job, and fraudsters gaming the system and using SNAP for food so they can spend the rest of their cash on other purchases.
Gaming the benefits system is great sport for some demographics.
I'll grant you the truth of the disjunction.
I found Newsmax more balanced than most. The left also claims that the illegals do not receive free healthcare, and that’s also false. Medi-Cal est. annual cost just for illegals is >$9.5B. The fed govt covers the majority of the budget through the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP), while CA covers the rest . The federal share is nearly $107.5B of the state's $175B annual Medi-Cal budget. Medi-Cal is available to anyone, regardless of immigration status.
Is it such a bad thing that anyone can go to the ER? Ronald Reagan didn't seem to think so.
All the media does is lie. All the government does is lie and steal.
So in that case, you and I know nothing, correct?
Maybe you. I don't watch TV and I don't listen to the government. I burned everything they ever gave me, my drivers license, social security card and birth certificate. Fuck the media.
Fuck the government and fuck anyone and everyone that obeys their baalshit laws.
Finnerty's MATH or LOGIC is flat out WRONG...........................
Try again... 59% of the illegals are on SNAP -- but there are about 20 MILLION ILLEGALS...
Hence 11.8 MILLION ILLEGALS are on SNAP......
BUT the fact was that there were 42 MILLION on SNAP...
.....hence 30.2 MILLION on SNAP are AMERICANS....
THAT means
MOST on SNAP ARE AMERICAN............................
Shocked?
Our American SAFETY NET -- meant for the 1 in 10 that slip up
WAS being DAMAGED by Sanctuary States luring and favoring the 20million ECONOMIC MIGRANTS to the detriment of 30million Americans..
SANCTUARY STATE did the crime of luring and THROWING MONEY AT FOREIGN MIGRANTS and
thus CHOSE TO DAMAGE our safety net
SO SANCTUARY STATES SHOULD PAY FOR THE DAMAGE.... out of their federal SUBSIDIES...?
Doability?............................
Per AI-gemini.........
Based on figures from fiscal year (FY) 2025, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) requires approximately $2 billion per week from the federal government.
This amount covers both benefit payments and the federal share of administrative costs.
AND
For federal subsidies to Sanctuary STATES,......
in Fiscal Year 2022,
California received approximately $13.5 billion per month --> $3.3 billion per week and
Oregon received about $1.66 billion per month --> $0.4 billion per week .
Washington's federal funding for its last fiscal year was about $2.25 billion per month --> $0.5 billion per week..
add Michigan etc and it looks very doable....
Wait til DJT gets back with his E.O. pen...
TTYL
20 million is lowball
Check the research yourself.. Researchers generally use a "residual method," which subtracts the estimated number of legal immigrants from the total number of foreign-born people counted in national surveys.
The highest point was 14 million so I added almost 50% more for 'fake immigration court processing under Biden'....
BUT
even if you hysterically grasp at 30million, that 59% is then 18million,
IMPLYING 24million **Americans** are living on SNAP....
24million who should have the American Safety Net
which Is still 'MOST' of those on SNAP, 57% of SNAP... ttyl
GREAT! A true eye-opening expose on 'food stamps'! This program definitely needs severe realignment! Or removal. Let the states handle it!
Agree! If States had some more skin in the game (I.e., less federal money), they might actually vet the recipients.
The states already handle it. SNAP goes through the states. That’s how we get such a bloated program full of corruption. The state programs are as bad as the people on food stamps. Whenever that free money is doled out, a bunch of useless folks are going to line up to get it, then do anything to keep it.
Thank you for informing me about the states' role. It is a very tired system fraught with corruption and untruthful receivers, legal or criminal, of this aid. It should receive the ax if it is that corrupted.
Your article stated “59% of all illegal immigrants receive SNAP.”
Disinformation. Maybe take your BS back to X or Truth Social.
I say, let the government shutdown continue for month and months and months, until the Democrats change their vote.