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Hunger games: The government shutdown showcases food-stamp fraud and follies<\/a><\/h1>\n
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The plight of 42 million food-stamp recipients is the federal-government shutdown\u2019s most inflammatory issue. Federal judges ordered the Trump administration to pay food-stamp benefits regardless. Team Trump first offered to pay 50% of this month\u2019s benefits, then raised its bid to 65% and now says it\u00a0will pay 100%<\/a> while appealing the court case.<\/p>\n

Democrats and their media allies claim President Trump is \u201cweaponizing hunger.\u201d Full benefits will likely be paid in the coming weeks as Congress and Trump end their standoff.<\/p>\n

Federal spending on food stamps \u2014 also known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) \u2014 has soared from $17 billion in 2000 to $100 billion last year. How did so many Americans come to rely on Washington for their next meal?<\/p>\n

For the foreseeable future, millions of Americans will need government help to feed themselves. But tens of millions of other people have been swayed or bribed to accept handouts they did not absolutely need.<\/strong> Food-stamp enrollment exploded as a result of political propaganda, bureaucratic racketeering and a perpetual federal assault on self-reliance.<\/p>\n

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The feds paid states beginning in the mid-1970s to conduct door-to-door recruiting campaigns. Wisconsin distributed thousands of copies of a Food Stamp Nursery Rhyme Coloring Book, while Kentucky relied on a traveling puppet show to spur enrollment. A federally funded leaflet in Maryland showed a gaunt face with the question \u201cDid you know some people would rather STARVE than seek HELP<\/a>?\u201d \u201cPRIDE NEVER FILLS EMPTY STOMACHS,\u201d it said inside. \u201cFood Stamps should NOT be confused with CHARITY! In fact, food stamps are designed to help you help yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Propaganda campaigns became ever more histrionic.\u00a0During the Obama administration, a North Carolina social-services agency won a United States Department of Agriculture \u201cHunger Champions Award\u201d for attacking \u201cmountain pride<\/a>\u201d as a reason not to accept government handouts. In Alabama, people received fliers proclaiming, \u201cBe a patriot<\/a>. Bring your food-stamp money home.\u201d USDA urged states to conduct food-stamp parties with free food and bingo games to whip up enthusiasm for enrolling.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Federal regulations treated food-stamp dependency as a transcendent benefit for America. The Obama administration claimed, \u201cEvery $5 in SNAP benefits generates as much as $9 of economic activity<\/a>.\u201d Team Obama canceled the food-stamp work requirement, which speedily doubled the number of able-bodied recipients with no kids. The Biden administration did even more to discourage handout recipients from ever breaking a sweat.<\/p>\n

Food-stamp enrollment also skyrocketed thanks to shameless scams. The Clinton administration launched the \u201cfood security survey,\u201d which vastly exaggerated suffering and hunger<\/a> (the Trump administration recently terminated that charade). Team Obama waived the asset tests for recipients, resulting in plenty of millionaires and lottery winners legally collecting food stamps as long as they had zero monthly income. The Biden administration jiggled eligibility rules so people with income twice as high as the poverty level could automatically qualify for food stamps.<\/p>\n

Surveys have shown since the 1970s that low-income people who do not rely on food stamps have healthier diets than those who do. Harvard nutrition professor Walter Willett observed<\/a> in 2015 that food-stamp recipients are \u201ceating horrible food. It\u2019s a diet designed to produce obesity and diabetes<\/a>.\u201d A 2017 survey<\/a> found low-income people on food stamps were twice as likely to be obese as eligible non-recipients.<\/p>\n

President Biden permanently boosted food-stamp benefits by 23% in 2021 in part because so many food-stamp recipients were obese <\/a>and needed extra food to provide \u201csufficient energy to support current weight status.\u201d The Trump administration is authorizing a dozen states to stop the use of food stamps for sodas and other junk food, a reform Congress should make mandatory for all states.<\/p>\n

Foul play has also bloated enrollment. USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins declared Sunday that SNAP is \u201ca broken and corrupt program<\/a>\u201d and recent investigations have \u201calready uncovered massive fraud.\u201d Even though the USDA pays for food-stamp benefits, more than 20 states are refusing to disclose whether illegal immigrants are pocketing windfalls from the program.<\/p>\n

Democrats are exploiting the food-stamp funding lapse to pressure Trump to approve more Obamacare subsidies for illegal aliens and other groups. But most SNAP recipients also receive benefits from other government programs, and many had leftover benefits on their EBT cards at the start of this month. Many states have launched programs<\/a> to cover the food-stamp benefit shortfall among residents.<\/p>\n

Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-Bronx\/Yonkers) howled two years ago: \u201cCutting SNAP will lead to homelessness, incarceration and death for 38 million<\/a> Americans.\u201d That type of Democratic Party propaganda will always be popular with the media.<\/p>\n

But the Trump administration is ignoring how its own policies and its tariffs<\/a> are driving up the cost of living for Americans across the board. Restoring full food-stamp benefits will do nothing to aid average Americans who are gut-punched at the grocery checkout.<\/p>\n

USDA Secretary Rollins says the funding standoff\u2019s \u201csilver lining\u201d<\/a> is \u201cwe\u2019re having a national conversation on our SNAP program.\u201d Regardless of how the impasse ends, food stamps must be radically reformed to exclude non-needy recipients and end the federal junk-food entitlement.<\/p>\n

James Bovard is the author of 11 books, including \u201cLost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty<\/a>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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