THE FOOD STAMP GAMES

"You just hate poor people! You want to starve children! You want old people to starve and die!"
I just wanted to get all that lefty rhetoric out of the way before I started this post.

It's the same old shtick they use against someone who uses logic to make an argument against a sacred cow such as welfare or food stamps. They have neither facts nor reasoning in their arsenal so they resort to this old regurgitated muck to obfuscate their true agenda.
I'm getting ahead of myself. The subject of this cauldron of lava making its way to the volcano vent was inspired by the young adult trilogy Suzanne Collins novels starting with " The Hunger Games".

When the movie came out I thought, ehhh kids movie.
Ordinary Life's Rita, gave me the book and said it was a good book and a quick read that only took her one day to devour.
I figure that means I could get through it in about 4 days.
But I told her I had just started the other book she loaned me by Bill O'Reilly "Killing Lincoln".
She convinced me to read the easy one first so I did, whilst still picking away at the very intriguing O'Reilly work.
I have to admit the story didn't take long to hook me. With my love of dystopian stories added to the sci-fi element of the novel, it was right up my alley. Seems me and baby sis share common interest in literature and politics.

We are so much alike in many ways it baffles me why I tormented the hell out of her when we were kids. Oh yeah, it was because she was my little sister which automatically qualifies her for such abuses.
 Oh well, that's water under the old trestle bridge and another post.
After I read the first book of the trilogy I got the other 2, Catching Fire and Mockingjay, which I burnt through pretty quickly. Even though I'm a little past being a young adult who this story was geared to, I really enjoyed the read. As I am convalescing with much time on my hands I considered going to see the movie by myself, but the thought of some old codger strapped in an arm sling in a theater filled with kids by himself made me feel creepy so I figure I will just wait and get the Blu Ray instead.
I started reading this book about the same time that a local TV station broke the story about food stamp fraud going on here in Indiana.


The term "food stamp" is a misnomer these days as stamps have been replaced with a debit type card and food is usually the last thing associated with this program. The fraud in question was a program that was supposed to be an extension of food stamps, with cards drawing out money as needed with little or no oversight to prevent abuses. In other words it was but another veiled method to redistribute wealth.
These cards were and most likely still are being used
at casinos, bars, liquor stores, Las Vegas and Hawaiian vacations.

Of course if you bring up the abuses in the entitlement sector you are branded racist and uncaring. It doesn't matter how much free stuff you give to the non-producers of this nation it is never enough. The "we need to do more to end hunger" spiel looses credibility if you spend a little time in the inner city. I have worked in welfare country for decades and have yet to see any emaciated people with fly’s crawling on their faces. The opposite is true leading me to believe most are being over fed. This idea is reinforced when you consider that food stamps are also used as currency for booze, drugs and anything else you can imagine.
The Food Stamp Games are just one of many scams that the left has used to perpetuate their power. "Vote for me and all your shits free!”
Entitlements were sold as a safety net. That safety net is more like a spider web that guarantees a growing and never ending class of people who have no incentive to be weaned off the government teat.
You just keep pulling that lever for the Democrats and the lactating continues without fail.

As bad as this system was, it has grown many times worse under Obama. His redistribution policies serve two purposes.
The most obvious being the same old vote buying scam that has been a staple of Democratic politics for decades. But it's the second purpose that is the most sinister and the most telling.
They say you can learn a lot about a man by the company he keeps. Do I have to go through the list?
Ok, here goes:
Bill Ayres: avowed communist, domestic terrorist, traitor, liar.
The so-called Rev. Wright: racist, black liberation theologian, liar.
Valerie Jarred: communist, racist, liar.
Tony Rezco: swindler, influence peddler, partnered with Obama on some shady land deals, convict, liar.
Van Jones: communist, racist, liar.
Ok this is the short list, but trust me his circle of friends and associates are a who's who of radical Alinsky followers.
The point I'm trying to make is Obama wouldn't surround himself with these meatheads if he wasn't just like them. And ultimately their goal is to destroy the America that was intended by the Founding Fathers, then rebuild it in their own socialist dystopian fantasy.

Obama is known as "the food stamp president", which makes The Food Stamp Games hard to compare to the Hunger Games which had no governmental assistance for the starving.

The only comparison I can make is the Hunger Games main antagonist, the evil President Snow.
In the story of The Food Stamp Games our antagonist is the evil President Snowjob.