Commentary

USDA’s Food Stamp Bullying Confirms Obama’s Dependency Agenda

By Ashton Ellis
Thursday, July 26 2012

For all the outrageous marketing tactics behind the Obama Administration’s attempts to dramatically increase the number of food stamp recipients, surely first prize goes to its claim in a radio ad that food stamps “help me eat right when money’s tight.” The ad was part of a series of Spanish and English language radio ads sponsored by the United States Department of Agriculture to increase enrollment in the federal food stamps program, renamed the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP in 2008. As currently administered, the food stamps program serves…

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