Monday, October 08, 2012
Government at Work - the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Now, with that being said, see what you think about the policies of the U.S.D.A....
At DailyCaller.com, Caroline May writes about the promotion of food stamps:
"The mission USDA articulates on its website is to 'increase participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program' — food stamps. The agency has been engaged in aggressive advertising campaigns and issuing guidance to state and local offices about how to enroll more beneficiaries.
'I share the goal stated in your letter,' Vilsack concluded in his letter to the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, 'which is to help people move toward gainful employment and financial independence. At the same time, the Nation’s nutrition assistance programs have never been needed more to help struggling families until they get back on their feet. I hope that this information clarifies our efforts and my views on these vital program.'
But statistics in Vilsack’s letter indicate that the number of legal non-citizens participating in SNAP increased approximately 190 percent from 2001 to 2010, from 425,000 to 1.23 million legal non-citizen participants. That number rose 77 percent since the program’s inception in 2004, when it served 693,000 non-citizen participants.
USDA did not offer data for 2011 and 2012, but a Republican Budget Committee staffer told TheDC that based on the growth rate, the number of legal non-citizens participating in the food stamp program today is about 1.63 million. That’s more than double the number of legal non-citizens who participated in 2008."
