The Snapanese, a normally reliable Democratic constituency that depends on what the vernacular refers to as food stamps, may ‘Pearl Harbor’ progressives after their month-long recalcitrance on re-opening the government.
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) provides an average of more than $350 per recipient household a month. The welfare program pays for milk, eggs, apples, and other groceries at the supermarket, which frees up funds, for those so inclined, for scratch tickets, neck tattoos, and meth pipes. (RELATED: The Spectacle Ep. 292: SNAP, Riots, and the Price of Dependency)
In the United States, the Snapanese outnumber Asians, LGBTQers, and Californians to make for a powerful interest group. If SNAP were a country, its population would exceed Canada, Saudi Arabia, and Ukraine. Forty-two million Americans, 12 percent of the U.S. population, receive SNAP benefits.
But when Halloween runs out of time, the SNAP benefits run out, too.
“Let me be clear,” a gesticulating Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) said on CNN earlier this week. “The administration is choosing to starve American children with money that they already have appropriated.”
In truth, as CNN host Jake Tapper informed Stansbury, Senate Democrats have repeatedly voted against reopening the government. On Tuesday, for instance, Senate Democrats voted for the 13th time to keep the federal government, or at least the “nonessential” parts of it, shuttered. (RELATED: How Did We Reach a $38 Trillion Debt During a ‘Shutdown’?)
(RELATED: The ‘BBB’ Brings Accountability to the Food Stamp Program — Not Catastrophe)
Democrats choose the failed hallmark program of their favorite president and free care for illegals over food for the hungry.
When Tapper attempted to mention this inconvenient truth to Stansbury, she spoke over the host’s words. Democrats do not want the public to know that they keep voting to keep the government closed. Their priority is not “starving children,” but keeping the sick and ailing Obamacare (Obamacare needs an Obamacare) alive and the emergency-care option open for illegals to seek free care even in non-emergency situations. (RELATED: Subtext to Shutdown: Unaffordable Healthcare)
As this word gets out, the Snapanese turn on their supposed patrons. Democrats choose the failed hallmark program of their favorite president and free care for illegals over food for the hungry. Those are their priorities.
This unleashes consequences. As poll numbers analyst Harry Enten explained to CNN’s viewers, Republican numbers have actually improved, if marginally, since the beginning of this impasse.
The federal government can withhold paychecks from Transportation Security Administration screeners and shut down the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. Take away a shiftless person’s Diet Mountain Dew and Fruity Pebbles, and prepare to face his wrath.
The Trump administration stokes it.
“Senate Democrats have now voted 12 times to not fund the food stamp program, also known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP),” a highly partisan statement on the main page of the Department of Agriculture’s website reads. “Bottom line, the well has run dry. At this time, there will be no benefits issued November 01. We are approaching an inflection point for Senate Democrats. They can continue to hold out for healthcare for illegal aliens and gender mutilation procedures or reopen the government so mothers, babies, and the most vulnerable among us can receive critical nutrition assistance.”
Alas, neither the Trump administration nor its forever enemies in the Democratic Party grasp the real issue here.
When a population within America, nearly the size of Argentina, depends on the federal government to feed it, then civilization isn’t — or at least a huge chunk of it is not.
If you cannot do something as basic as feed yourself, what can you do?
Children and the handicapped may need such programs. Most beneficiaries, though, are able-bodied adults. Yes, too many people on the back of society hamstring it. More germanely, these programs hamstring too many people.
The dole-addicted resemble the politicians who enable them. Both demand what isn’t theirs. Both follow unsustainable paths. The politicians — Democrat and Republican — who demand the reopening of the government miss the point.
Congress spent $1.8 trillion that it did not possess this past fiscal year. The total the federal government spends merely on paying interest on the debt amounts to more than 10 times the SNAP budget. The more we add in deficit spending to the existing $38 trillion deficit, the less the government can afford SNAP and so much else because that interest amount (currently above a trillion annually) necessarily grows to become a larger piece of the budgetary pie.
When the government usurps individual responsibility, it results in the government and the individual acting irresponsibly.
Keeping the federal government “closed” may amount to a reckless act. The greater recklessness comes in the “opened” federal government spending trillions of dollars it does not have.
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