Free Food Galore....Who's Paying for It, and Who Supports the Taxes

Are your tax dollars being wisely spent on Food Stamps and local food banks?  First off, I’ll bet you have no idea who the biggest supporter (lobbying group) is for food stamps and the like.  If you said the agricultural industry you would be right.  Our farmers, farm machine manufacturers and other groups associated with them are the ones who ask for increased funding for free food programs every year.

Yep, food stamp, and some food banks (some are not government sponsored) are nothing more than a subsidy to industry large and small.  

Ever wonder why there is never any real investigation into fraud in these programs?  Well, here you have a perfect mix of government agencies wanting to grow their power, and an industry that wants to grow it’s profits, all on the back of you the taxpayer.

You cannot tell me it is right for a person to leave the HEB with an overflowing grocery cart and get into a 2011 Escalade after paying the large portion of their grocery bill with food stamps.   It is wrong and fraud.   But in the land of give me something for nothing, and the land of the government knows best, this is what we get.

This is why Texas is having a contest for mayors to see who can increase their local food stamp rolls.  I would like to see a contest and prize go to a mayor who increases jobs in his city and reduces food stamp rolls.  How about that?