MORE ARE NOW DEPENDENT ON GOVERNMENT FOR THEIR GROCERIES...

Proving yet again that Socialism doesn't work, even when it's tried right here in American is the fact that the number of Americans now receiving subsidized food assistance from the federal government has risen to 101 Million, or roughly one third of the entire U.S. population. How depressing is that, that right here in what was once considered the most prosperous nation in history, a third of our population in now dependent on the government, to some extent, for their food?

The U.S. Department of Agriculture now estimates that a total of 101,000,000 people currently participate in at least one of the 15 food programs offered by the agency, all at a cost of $114 Billion in fiscal year 2012. That means the number of Americans receiving food assistance has now actually surpassed the number of private sector workers in the U.S. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), there were 97,180,000 full-time private sector workers in 2012..

A "potential for overlap" exists with the many food programs offered by the USDA, allowing participants to have more than their daily food needs subsidized completely by the federal government. According to a July 3 audit by the Inspector General, the USDA’s Food Nutrition Service (FNS) "may be duplicating its efforts by providing participants total benefits in excess of 100 percent of daily nutritional needs when households and/or individuals participate in more than one FNS program simultaneously."

Food assistance programs are designed to be a "safety net," the IG said. "With the growing rate of food insecurity among U.S. households and significant pressures on the Federal budget, it is important to understand how food assistance programs complement one another as a safety net, and how services from these 15 individual programs may be inefficient, due to overlap and duplication," the audit said. "May be inefficient?" No shit, what are the chances of that ever happening?

You know, the claim that these 15 programs are intended to be a safety net, is nothing more than pure liberal drivel. The sole intent here is to get as many people as possible dependent upon the government for something as crucial as their food. Because when folks are depending on you for their food, they have a tendency to become much more compliant out of fear of jeopardizing their food source. For example, they're much more likely to become far more willing to, say, vote for one candidate over another.