States' Rebellion Against Food Stamp Cuts Grows

[The Rabbi]

You would applaud if it was the industrial military complex doing it. At least here actual people who are starving are getting fed...I know it must piss you bastards off.

You dumb jew hating piece of shit. Poor people suffer from obesity, not hunger. This is nothing mroe than the states ripping off the federal gov't, costing actual taxpayers money.

You have not volunteered in low income schools then.

You have no compassion for children who truly need the help to eat?

School lunches are a different program from Food stamps, Jake Low Info Starkey.

 

[J.E.D]

Thanks, Disir, for your informative post.

From your link:


[W]hile food stamp fraud does occur, SNAP still has one of the lowest fraud rates among federal programs. Americans are far more likely to cheat on their taxes or commit auto insurance fraud than misuse their food stamps.

Yet as Republican Congress members cry fraud to justify defunding SNAP, representatives on both sides of the aisle are expanding without question a different USDA-funded program—one that the Secretary of Agriculture and ranking members of the House Agriculture Committee have both acknowledged to suffer from a much higher incidence of fraud. The federal crop insurance program, which is intended to insure farmers’ crops against inclement weather and unexpected price fluctuations, would be expanded in both the House and Senate versions of the farm bill.

Crop insurance, in spite of its name, isn’t like the commercial insurance policies that most Americans are accustomed to. Though farmers buy different crop insurance policies from a range of private companies, all of those policies are heavily subsidized by the Department of Agriculture—and, in turn, by taxpayers. And while crop insurance has generally been subject to less scrutiny than food stamps, the program is actually far more vulnerable to fraud and abuse than SNAP, according to policy experts, government regulators and federal data.

Unlike the property or casualty insurance policies that most individuals purchase, taxpayers pay all of the administrative costs and about 60 percent of the different premium costs for crop insurance, according to an official with the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress that audits and evaluates government programs. As federal auditors have pointed out, these large subsidies effectively shield producers from the higher premiums associated with filing frequent or large claims. In other words, there’s an incentive for frequent claims embedded into the very core of the program, leaving plenty of room for widespread abuse.

The last official figure calculated by the GAO estimated that the crop insurance program lost $117 million to “fraud, waste and abuse” in 2005, or about 4.3 percent of the program's $2.7 billion cost that year. Crop insurance spending has since expanded to roughly $9 billion. Food stamp fraud, by contrast, accounts for about 1 percent of the program’s cost.

In March, federal investigators uncovered the largest detected crop insurance fraud ring in the country—a $100 million scheme involving insurance agents, claims adjusters, brokers and farmers in eastern North Carolina. “I can tell you it’s everywhere, all across the country,” Jimmy Thomas Sasser, a claims adjuster who was sentenced to four years in prison for his involvement, told the press.

 

[DriftingSand]

Wonder where J.E.D is in that picture?

GREAT picture. Sucking the Welfare tits. Perfect visual!

 

[Disir]

the crop insurance program lost $117 million to “fraud, waste and abuse” in 2005, or about 4.3 percent of the program's $2.7 billion cost that year. Crop insurance spending has since expanded to roughly $9 billion.

This is mind blowing. This is where the money goes but nobody pays attention. It's like forcing those at the bottom to fight over the scraps and to pay the penalty for these guys here.

 

[hangover]

States' Rebellion Against Food Stamp Cuts Grows

It's really funny, that the cons that cut food stamps, don't think that any of those getting them were republican voters. Or that they will still vote republican anyway. Maybe they were all liberals, but now I bet they're more determined to vote against those that took food off their tables.

 

[The Rabbi]

the crop insurance program lost $117 million to “fraud, waste and abuse” in 2005, or about 4.3 percent of the program's $2.7 billion cost that year. Crop insurance spending has since expanded to roughly $9 billion.

This is mind blowing. This is where the money goes but nobody pays attention. It's like forcing those at the bottom to fight over the scraps and to pay the penalty for these guys here.

The SNAP program costs $33B. How much fraud do you think is there?
James Bovard: The Food-Stamp Crime Wave - WSJ.com

• Perhaps the biggest fraud of all is the notion, which the USDA has been touting lately, that the food-stamp program is a nutrition program. (The program's name was formally changed in the 2008 farm bill to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program—SNAP—to make it sound more wholesome and attractive.) What is really does is boost caloric intake, which is why numerous studies (including a 2009 Ohio State University report) link food stamps to the worsening obesity epidemic among low-income Americans.

 

[The Rabbi]

States' Rebellion Against Food Stamp Cuts Grows

It's really funny, that the cons that cut food stamps, don't think that any of those getting them were republican voters. Or that they will still vote republican anyway. Maybe they were all liberals, but now I bet they're more determined to vote against those that took food off their tables.

No food was taken off anyone's table as a result.
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[The T]

You would applaud if it was the industrial military complex doing it. At least here actual people who are starving are getting fed...I know it must piss you bastards off.

You dumb jew hating piece of shit. Poor people suffer from obesity, not hunger. This is nothing mroe than the states ripping off the federal gov't, costing actual taxpayers money.

You have not volunteered in low income schools then.

You have no compassion for children who truly need the help to eat?

WHY are people having children that cannot afford to feed them? Hmm? Compassion my ass.

 

[LogikAndReazon]

Food stamps.... Theres just not enough people getting a handout...

 

[The T]

Food stamps.... Theres just not enough people getting a handout...

Government meddling with the economy coupled with irresponsible people making bad life choices is the root of the problem.

 

[LogikAndReazon]

Who needs parents when public schools can raise your kiddies for you...

 

[The T]

Who needs parents when public schools can raise your kiddies for you...

Indeed. And parents using it as a babysitting service, and NOT taking an interest in their children's lives. What a dis-service to young people.