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The SNAP program cost 78 billion dollars in 2011
“The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the Food Stamp Program) is the nation’s most important anti-hunger program. In 2011, it helped almost 45 million low-income Americans to afford a nutritionally adequate diet in a typical month.
Nearly 75 percent of SNAP participants are in families with children; more than one-quarter of participants are in households with seniors or people with disabilities.”
Military spending 2011 769 billion.
TARP bank bailouts 700 billion.
Maybe we could shift some of that spending around (prioritize)and pull the bottom up a bit rather than watching the top get further away.
Why are there so many people in poverty in the richest country in the world? Surely, you don’t think that half the citizens in this country are lazy moochers.