“Well, first of all, we've got to get away from being offended by the truth. We've seen a 41 percent increase in food stamp recipients across the United States of America since President Obama was sworn in in January 2009. That has nothing to do with black, white, Hispanic or whatever. It's a fact, and we need to, you know, deal with that.” KnowsNeedsFirstsWellsStatesFactsAmericaBlackPresidentWhiteUnitedDealsUnited StatesPercentIncreaseGet AwayPresident ObamaUnited States Of AmericaStampsOffendedJanuaryHispanicBlack WhiteFood Stamps Author:Allen West
“Baba dropped the stack of food stamps on her desk. "Thank you but I don't want," Baba said. "I work always. In Afghanistan I work, in America I work. Thank you very much, Mrs. Dobbins, but I don't like it free money."...Baba walked out of the welfare office like a man cured of a tumor.” MenWantSaidAmericaOfficeWelfareAfghanistanDesksStampsBabaTumorsFood StampsFree Money Author:Khaled Hosseini
“Back in August, I wrote a post about the supposed race to the bottom with ebooks, refuting some nonsense written by an establishment bonehead. This meme won't die. People are still convinced that new ebooks are going to be priced at ten cents, and writers will starve, and this will cause a second Great Depression where banks will close and people will be forced to buy Kindles with food stamps, and then the earth will enter another ice age where all the bunnies will freeze to death.” PeopleStillsAgeEarthDiesCausesRaceWrittenTenBottomConvincedIcePostsNonsenseEstablishmentCentsStampsAugustFreezeGreat DepressionKindlesBunniesMemesIce AgeFood Stamps Author:J.A. Konrath
“Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.” LittlesStillsCasesPaidEqualityStampsFood StampsStewardess Author:Patricia Ireland
“The U.S. has become the most egregious war-monger and terrorist nation in the world, as well as the long-time leading purveyor of weapons of war throughout the world, and because here at home, we have 50 million of our citizens living in poverty, one in four children surviving on Food Stamps, a collapsing education system, poor health care, and many other disasters, none of which can be addressed as long as the country keeps pouring trillions of dollars into war and militarism. This madness and criminality must end!” WorldWellsChildrenLongWarEndsCountryHomeCareNationsPoorPovertyMillionsFourCitizensWeaponsLong TimeMadnessOur ChildrenDollarsDisasterTerroristHealth CareStampsSurvivingPouringEducation SystemMilitarismCriminalityFood StampsPoor Health Author:Dave Lindorff
“We got food stamps. Glad to get the food stamps. Why wouldn't you want to get free money?” WantGladRapperStampsFood StampsFree Money Author:Ol' Dirty Bastard
“How unthinkable that, in a country of such bursting plenty, so many people are facing ongoing hunger and poverty. If we are truly each other's keepers, let's support school lunches, food stamps, neighborhood garden projects, and so many other wonderful programs working to put an end to this cruel and needless blight once and for all.” PeopleIfsEndsCountrySchoolPovertySupportWonderfulProjectsProgramGardenHungerPlentyNeighborhoodLunchStampsOngoingKeepersUnthinkableBurstingBlightFood StampsHunger And PovertyHunger PovertySchool Lunch Author:Bonnie Raitt
“Hunger is a political issue, and there are several things politically that are keeping people hungry - not funding food stamps adequately, not funding school lunches adequately. So there is a political solution to the problem of hunger.” PeopleProblemSchoolPoliticalIssuesSolutionsHungerHungryLunchStampsFundingFood StampsPolitical IssuesSchool Lunch Author:Tom Colicchio
“What happened to society? I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. I've been on food stamps and welfare, did anybody help me out? No. No. They gave me hope, they gave me encouragement, and they gave me a vision.” HelpingVisionHappenedEncouragementWelfareHelp MeStampsFood Stamps Author:Craig T. Nelson
“I've been on food stamps and welfare, did anybody help me out? No. No.” HelpingWelfareHelp MeStampsFood Stamps Author:Craig T. Nelson
“Tea Party Republicans, in an effort to kill the farm bill will stereotype and make racial comments about food stamps - which is a big element to the program.” BigsPartyEffortRepublicanElementsProgramBillsTeaCommentFarmsStereotypeStampsTea PartyFood Stamps Author:Eleanor Clift
“More people are on food stamps today because of Obamas policies than ever in history. I would like to be the best paycheck president in American history. ... And so Im prepared if the NAACP invites me, Ill go to their convention and talk about why the African-American community should demand paychecks and not be satisfied with food stamps.” PeopleIfsShouldTodayPresidentCommunityPolicyDemandPreparedIllSatisfiedAfrican AmericanBeing The BestInvitesConventionsAmerican HistoryStampsPaychecksFood StampsNaacp Author:Newt Gingrich
“I will go to the NAACP convention, and explain to the African-American community why they should demand paychecks instead of food stamps.” ShouldCommunityDemandAfrican AmericanConventionsStampsPaychecksFood StampsNaacp Author:Newt Gingrich
“The ‘Great Society’ has not worked and it’s put us into the modern welfare state. If you look at China, they don’t have food stamps. If you look at China, they’re in a very different situation. They save for their own retirement security…they don’t have the modern welfare state and China’s growing. And so what I would do is look at the programs that LBJ gave us with the Great Society and they’d be gone.” IfsLooksDifferentStatesSituationGoneGrowingModernSecurityProgramChinaWelfareRetirementStampsWelfare StateFood StampsGreat SocietyLbj Author:Michele Bachmann
“We are going to have the candidate of food stamps, the finest food-stamp president in the American history, in Barack Obama, and we are going to have a candidate of paychecks.” PoliticalPresidentBarackCandidatesAmerican HistoryFinestStampsPaychecksFood Stamps Author:Newt Gingrich
“Save your wack rhymes, hold your female. Pass the Old Gold, trash the ale. Cash your food stamps, get the WIC out the mail. Love to eat shrimps, but I never eat snail, Eat a whole fish except for the tail. Keep food in the fridge so it don't get stale, And when there's nothing to eat...I bite my nails.” WholeFemaleGoldFishesHip HopRapBitesCashMailNailsTailsRhymeStampsTrashStaleSnailFridgesAleFood StampsShrimp Author:Big Daddy Kane
“Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps.” WellsChildrenCountryGovernmentCareEnergyLostMiddleIndependenceChinaCreditIncomeHealth CareDependentEasternStampsSuppliesFood Stamps Author:Jim DeMint
“Once you're labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination - employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity, denial of food stamps and other public benefits, and exclusion from jury service - are suddenly legal. As a criminal, you have scarcely more rights, and largely less respect, than a black man living in Alabama at the height of Jim Crow. We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.” MenAmericaFormOpportunityBlackRightsBenefitsVoteEducationalCriminalsDiscriminationEmploymentDenialHeightStampsHousingJuryCrowExclusionRight To VoteAlabamaCastesJim CrowFood StampsMass IncarcerationFelonsEmployment Discrimination Author:Michelle Alexander
“The US head of state grew up on food stamps. The British head of state grew up on the postage stamps.” StatesGrewGrew UpBritishStampsHead Of StateFood StampsPostagePostage Stamps Author:Johann Hari
“The Republicans suddenly are very concerned about people losing their health coverage! I would believe that they were worried about our well-being if a) they didn't cut food stamps; and b) they didn't oppose every law regulating guns.” PeopleIfsBelieveWellsLawCuttingRepublicanLosingGunConcernedWell BeingWorriedStampsCoverageFood StampsHealth Coverage Author:Andy Borowitz
“We have to convince people that the handouts - just taking a few little handouts, where you have a subsistent living, where you never grow, just get a little check and a few food stamps, it will keep you on the plantation for the rest of your life, that's not a life. That's not living. It is not good enough. It is not acceptable. We have to educate our people that that is no longer good. You have to get off the plantation, off the government plantation.” PeopleLittlesEnoughGovernmentGrowsChecksConvinceGood EnoughEducateAcceptableStampsRest Of Your LifeNot Good EnoughPlantationsFood StampsHandouts Author:Elbert Guillory
“My mother and I were on welfare and food stamps until I was 18, so I've always had this ethos of, like, 'try and make a little bit of money now because you don't know what's going to happen tomorrow.'” KnowsTryingLittlesHappensMotherBitsTomorrowLittle BitWelfareStampsEthosFood Stamps Author:Moby
“Elect me to office. I will protect and defend the U.S. Constitution. Because there's no constitutional authority for Congress spending on the objects of benevolence, don't expect for me to vote for prescription drugs for the elderly, handouts to farmers and food stamps for the poor. Instead, I'll fight these and other unconstitutional congressional expenditures”? I'll tell you how many votes he'll get: It will be Williams' vote, and that's it.” FightingPoorObjectsDrugProtectOfficeAuthorityVoteConstitutionCongressSpendingFarmersStampsElderlyBenevolencePrescriptionsExpendituresPrescription DrugsUnconstitutionalFood StampsHandouts Author:Walter E. Williams
“If you need food stamps, you should meet the criteria.” IfsNeedsShouldStampsCriteriaFood Stamps Author:Bob Goodlatte