Provide the source for the 'advertising in Mexico' thing
The point is not that the system is perfect...it is not. Show me a government program without a certain percentage of fraud or waste, and I'll show you my herd of flying pigs.
I have studied the numbers, I know the numbers.
The worst number is that the Iraq war cost $720M per day, and Afghanistan costs roughly $300M per day. Everybody cries about how foodstamps are causing the deficit, yet these two unfunded wars are the root cause. Keep in mind the cost of SNAP is $72B...roughly 70 days of war = one year of food stamps.
Government does not fix every problem, and less government would be a good thing, but in the meantime people gotta eat.
The point is that it's very easily to point fingers and lump every needy person into one bucket of 'takers' and overlook the very real requirement that human beings require food to survive.
This is not a personal sleight, this is to make the point that wealthy American conservatives seem intent on reducing and/or eliminating the safety nets, for their personal gain, while not giving one red cent to charity to help at the local level. Look at how much charitiable giving Romney gave, outside the money to CLDS. Pennies....
And, would we not agree, that it seems terribly convenient that the 'big government' agenda seems to be to starve funding for public schools, make drug crimes harsher, then privatize prisons.
