Food stamp use reaches record 45.8 million
“It’s free. Swipe yo’ EBT.” A new report posted today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows a record 45.8 million Americans received assistance through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance...
View ArticleNation reporter: Food stamp reform motivated by racism, too!
What else could it be? In a recent lengthy piece in praise of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, The Nation’s Lizzy Ratner selects a series of sympathetic examples to demonstrate the...
View ArticleVideo: Gingrich vs. Juan Williams on the “food-stamp president”
Moment of truth. Via BuzzFeed. Between this, the exchange with Ron Paul on Bin Laden, and the zinger about 99 weeks being an associate degree, I’m thinking he might have turned South Carolina from a...
View ArticleQuotes of the day
Divisions. “For months, Mr. Gingrich has made racial resentment an integral part of his platform as a conservative challenger to Mitt Romney. He has traversed the country calling President Obama “the...
View ArticleRep. Allen West: Yes, the president is the food stamp president
And race has nothing to do with it. Why Newt Gingrich naming Barack Obama “the food stamp president” ever generated controversy is more than a little perplexing — and how race was ever brought into...
View ArticleJesse Jackson: It’s an honor to be a food-stamp president
Reclaiming the narrative. Pretty much from the minute Newt Gingrich branded President Barack Obama “the best food-stamp president in American history,” I’ve wondered why liberals didn’t immediately...
View ArticleAlabama nightclub sponsors “Food Stamp Friday” party
The social safety hammock. Flaunting food stamps almost seems to be a trend. First, Mr. EBT released his now-infamous rap. Shortly thereafter, girls followed suit with their own version. Now, a night...
View ArticleGallup and Rasmussen agree: Consumer confidence plunging in June
Wreckovery Summer III: Food Stamp Explosion. And it’s not as if it was all that terrific before now, either. Gallup’s weekly survey of consumer confidence shows a steep 10-point drop from -16 at the...
View ArticleNewt to Chris Matthews: Your thinking can be pretty racist, you know
“Why do you assume food stamp refers to black? What kind of racist thinking do you have?” Via News Busters, you’ll enjoy watching Matthews being given a taste of his own medicine but this clip is more...
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