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Who’s Hungry For The Truth About Food
Stamps? (Hint: Not Journalists)

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Posted By: RockyTCB, 7/11/2025 9:44:55 AM

A headline in Axios over the weekend carried this scary warning: “An increasing share of American adults are going hungry.” The “shocking data point” comes, the story says, “at a time when the stock market is hitting record highs and President Donald Trump just signed a bill slashing food benefits.” But take a look at the chart Axios published in that tear-jerking story, which is based on data from Morning Consult. Notice anything? Morning Consult started tracking “food insecurity” in 2021. And, sure enough, it was on the rise – the entire time Joe Biden was president.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Venturer 7/11/2025 10:00:48 AM (No. 1975873)
I am not hungry ,but there are a lot of things I no longer eat. The only beef I eat is hamburger meat. Even a chuck roast is $7 bucks a lb.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: MickTurn 7/11/2025 10:43:20 AM (No. 1975892)
Correction: Food Scams
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Reply 3 - Posted by: felixcat 7/11/2025 10:51:39 AM (No. 1975902)
Once again, all I read/see/hear from the news media is how Americans are more sick, more fat/obese, more diabetic, etc than any previous generation. Our food is more processed than ever before and on and on they go. And yet, we're a country of starving people and without Food Stamps, mass starvation is just around the corner. Every town or city regardless of size has at least one food bank in which they give away food without any questions. This is in addition to all the SNP benefits, etc. Oh and if you tried to donate food to your local food bank, it better not be one day expired because heaven forbid some "poor" person would received expired food (dry goods). Whereas the rest of us probably eat our fair share of expired food that we bought with our own money. Waste not, want not.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: WWIIDaughter 7/11/2025 11:06:33 AM (No. 1975913)
Asking people to say if they're worried about getting enough food is like asking whether they're worried about having enough money. All of us normies are concerned about the economy. And those who don't work and rely on the kindness of strangers are even more concerned. They also worry that Walmart will be out of drive-yourself wheelchair carts for them use as they're too obese to walk. Ridiculous.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: jeffkinnh 7/11/2025 11:20:44 AM (No. 1975918)
"Shouldn’t the goal be that nobody is getting food stamps? That no one is dependent on government to help them afford groceries, because the economy is booming, people are earning decent wages, and inflation is under control?" DUH! But then, why would you need dems to give you hand outs? Trump and "most" Republicans are about self empowerment and the government being needed for only the bare minimums. Dems put a chain around the necks of those who are in need (often due to lousy dem policies) and YANK IT HARD at election time. And the secondary reason, after votes, is that dems need the CONTROL that being in elected office brings to carry out their insane agenda, to get their graft, and purely to satisfy their lust for power.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: janjan 7/11/2025 11:32:46 AM (No. 1975923)
Most people don’t mind helping those in actual need. But that is not the real goal of the SNAP program. Like anything the government manages, it is run by incompetent, if not corrupt, bureaucrats who are well versed on how to scam taxpayers. Before they started handing out credit cards, you could buy the ‘stamps’ for 50 cents on the dollar in most bars on the 1st of the month. We’ve all been in line at the grocery behind obese people buying a cart load of junk food using SNAP. Restrict what people buy to actual food staples and make them requalify quarterly. The numbers will drop off quickly.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: cor-vet 7/11/2025 12:46:47 PM (No. 1975946)
With the ability of computers to monitor every aspect of a grocery shopping trip, it's ludicrous to think that staple items, that the recipient sitting at home can cook for themselves, can't be programmed to a EBT list. Why someone without a job needs time saving, fast microwave meals and junk food makes no sense. As for the really expensive cuts of meat, those should be saved for when you can afford them off of your paycheck, not the backs of working Americans. Where's the incentive to work, if you can eat better while sitting on your duff, than the poor working stiff trying to make ends meet while working a couple of jobs?
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Reply 8 - Posted by: DVC 7/11/2025 1:33:57 PM (No. 1975967)
I do not believe that food stamps are legitimate for about 90% of the people who take them. Just end it, and they'll mostly go back to work. Feed them and they lay around. Welfare is massively too high. Medicaid, free housing, and food stamps make people stop working and just lay back in the government hammock.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: paral04 7/11/2025 3:37:13 PM (No. 1976030)
If we weren't giving food money to people who shouldn't be here maybe there would be more than enough to feed our people.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: 3XALADY 7/11/2025 4:40:55 PM (No. 1976066)
I very recently saw a big mama lamenting 'how can they do this to me? My $4,400 monthly has turned to $38 a month. Section 8 is not paying my rent.' I have an answer. Stop making babies, get off your duff and get a job. They did this to themselves.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: mifla 7/12/2025 7:53:22 AM (No. 1976345)
I have seen this movie before. A government program is launched with the best of intentions. It grows exponentially as more and more people jump on the "free stuff" train. Since there are few checks and balances, waste and fraud are rampant. When you try to reign in the spending, the advocates scream that children are being starved.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: kdog 7/12/2025 7:59:13 AM (No. 1976346)
If there is any certainty in life, it's that polls can be manipulated to say anything you want them to say simply by rigging your sample.
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