Last week, however, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued a report for 2012 that puts a different light on the GOP insistence that SNAP is rife with abuse and fraud. The report found that the amount of major overpayments in five food assistance programs - SNAP, the School Lunch Program, the School Breakfast Program, the Child and Adult Care Food Program, and WIC (supplements for Women, Infants, and Children) - is $0. But the amount of major overpayments in farm subsidy programs adds up to over $17 million.
If you think these subsidies are going to small family farmers, think again. They are mainly going to large agribusinesses - corporations. Those who pocket the government checks are rarely those who ever step foot in a field.
Comment: If you ever want a psychopath's "interesting perspective" you really don't have to look far. Our government is chock-full of 'paths just like Steve Pincher. He is not unique, in fact, he is the norm among our rape and pillage oriented ruling class.
Comment: Witness the latest phase in the Corporate takeover of America. After destroying the American Labor Unions and shipping most American jobs overseas to places where slave labor is legal, America's leaders are now reintroducing slave labor to a starving population here.
This is how it works. Wealthy scumbags like Kasich make it mandatory for hungry people to "spend at least 20 hours a week working, training for a job, volunteering or performing a similar type of activity" Then the major corporations create various "Programs" with which to exploit these people who are forced to work for about a dollar an hour in Food Stamps. In addition to getting dirt cheap labor, these morally deficient moguls rake in even more ridiculous Corporate tax breaks for doing so.
From a psychopath's perspective, it's brilliant. They loudly bang the "Must work for Food Stamps" drum to rally the small portion of taxpaying American workers who don't need Food Stamps (yet) behind them. The impoverished, overworked fools who actually fall for the "blame the poor for our economic woes" rhetoric don't even realize that it's their jobs which will eventually be replaced by starving American slaves who have no choice but to work for Food Stamps. By the time the portion of the working class that believes "Must work for Food Stamps" is a good idea realize what's going on, they'll be working for Food Stamps too.