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What’s More Compassionate for the Poor, Dependency or Self-Reliance?

by Dan Mitchell | Jan 22, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements

I’ve written a couple of times about the Food Stamp program, citing ridiculous examples of waste, fraud, and abuse. These include: Using food stamps to buy luxury coffee at Starbucks. Buying steaks and lobster with food stamps. The Obama Administration rewarding...

Can You Identify the Most Egregious Example of Wasteful Spending by the Welfare State?

by Dan Mitchell | Dec 23, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Government Waste, Welfare and Entitlements

I’ve commented many times about wasteful government spending, including Social Security bureaucrats spending $700 thousand to party at a luxury resort, HUD bureaucrats giving huge subsidies for welfare recipients to live in upscale neighborhoods, rampant fraud in the...

A Food Stamp Horror Story – and Taxpayers Are the Victims

by Dan Mitchell | Nov 1, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending

I am automatically suspicious of the veracity of anything I see online, so I don’t necessarily believe this is a real receipt. But it could be, and that’s what’s disturbing. There are very few restrictions on the use of food stamps, so there’s nothing to stop a...

Obama Administration Bribing States to Create More Food-Stamp Dependency

by Dan Mitchell | Sep 30, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending

Only the federal government could be this stupid. We have two very big problems in our nation. o First, we have a giant, bloated federal government that is spending too much money, putting us at serious risk of a Greek-style fiscal crisis at some point in the future....

How Redistribution Creates a Poverty Trap

by Dan Mitchell | Jun 5, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Welfare and Entitlements

I’ve beaten up on Newt Gingrich for his views on global warming and his attack on the Ryan budget plan, but I’m completely on his side in the faux controversy about whether it is racist to call Barack Obama the “food stamp president.” This story from ABC News should...
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