Im no economist, but wouldn't that add to inflation?

You trying to say Jesus Christ can't hit a curveball?

Once again it is not the problem that make liberals liberals, it is their inevitable solution - more government, more and higher taxes, and more people unable to stand on their own because they are in part or totally dependent on the government.

The solution to less costly food is to stop subsidizing farmers to grow food for fuel.  Simultaneously, open up the coasts, ANWR, and the oil shale regions of our country to explore for oil, build nuclear plants, and end subsidies to solar and wind - they should stand on their own merit. 

The upshot to the above conservative approach is less government, reduced government spending, less taxes, more jobs, less unemployement and less people dependent on government.

The liberal solution is the opposite of the above - in other words - the present course of action. 

We need to kick the dimocrats out of office this November!  This crap has to end.   

WTF are they suggesting? that the dole should be increased, the benefits expanded, so they have leftover stamps? The whole *point* is SURVIVAL-they're surviving based on resources taken away from others by threats of confiscation and violence (taxes). They are *not* entitled to stockpile or make a profit from what they are given! If they've got stuff left over then obviously the "benefits" need to be DECREASED.

If you want to profit, stockpile, get ahead then WORK for it. Is the work you're doing not enough? Work HARDER.

As someone who was actually on FS benefits while married to a woman who couldn't be arsed to hold a job (even 8 years after divorce she's still in the same boat) in order to feed my family (myself, her, and my stepsons) I worked 50 hour weeks at minimum wage and of course she went and got food stamps. 

We ate real frikkin well. Steak once a week at least. We supplied meat to neighborhood barbecues. and with WIC programs, we had more milk and cheese than we knew what to do with. So don't any of you leftist trolls *dare* say I don't "know how it is"!

They winge about "living hand to mouth"? I say, Good! Sometimes The System works!

"to call an illegal immigrant an "undocumented alien" is the same as calling a streetcorner drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist".

"You spend your money anyway you want and respect other's rights to do the same. Who the hell appointed you God?"

Two things:

1.  How are they paying for that big ass SUV they were loading those grocerys in and

2.  HOW MUCH DO THEY SPEND ON THE LOTTERY???????

I am sorry but maybe if you cut back on the Cell phone, cable and Play Station 3 games maybe you could pay for FOOD.

But what do I know? I am bitter and cling to my religion and guns.

The latest fad in my area is for people to use their EBT cards (food stamp debit cards) to buy the really good quality milk in glass bottles at the local grocery store, poor the milk out in the parking lot and then take the bottles back in the store for the one dollar deposit.  I would say that some aren't all that hungry if they are wasting our tax dollars AND their meager food stamp allowance like this. 

"Money is the scourge of the men who attempt to reverse the law of causality--the men who seek to replace the mind by seizing the products of the mind."  Ayn Rand

here's what a lot of people don't understand, and I speak of these things from my personal knowledge. A family of three children and one adult receives somewhere between 450-600 dollars a month in food stamps, as well as medicaid, and, more often than not, Section 8 housing. if they work, they often get federal assistance from Child Care Services. So, ulimately, they're poor but they've got no bills. I've seen people refuse to go to work because working would mean they'd have to pay 30 dollars a month for Section 8 housing.

Ever seen a food stamp person at the supermarket buying steaks and other premium items, yet wondered about why they have a huge wad of tens and twents (or even hundreds) in their pocketbooks? There's a black market most Americans don't know about. Some recipients will buy a lot of high-quality items and then turn around and sell it to someone else for about 20-30 percent of the actual price. Many will also work for cash only, so as to not lose their benefits.

What needs to happen is that many of these people need to get a damn job. I don't disagree that benefits should continue after one starts to work, but giving people a high amount of food stamp money without the expectations of work is not right at all. "Welfare-to-Work" isn't going to work at all if you don't hold the recipients accountable for themselves, and you give them all of these 'rights to appeal' the government's actions. Sanctions need to be more rigid and harsh; you shouldn't be allowed to be penalized for not going to work and then being able to turn around and reapply for your foodstamps. There's no accountability.