Please Do Not Feed The Food Stamp Program

The Republican Party in Oklahoma recently published a Facebook post that offended a lot of people and eventually prompted an apology.

The post read:

“The Food Stamp Program, administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is proud to be distributing this year the greatest amount of free Meals and Food Stamps ever, to 46 million people. Meanwhile, the National Park Service, administered by the U.S. Department of the Interior, asks us ‘Please Do Not Feed the Animals’. Their stated reason for the policy is because ‘The animals will grow dependent on handouts and will not learn to take care of themselves’. Thus ends today’s lesson in irony.”

For most hardworking taxpayers, 46 million people on the Food Stamp Program is what’s offensive. TheSNAP program is a liberal vehicle to increase dependency and further a leftist agenda. There was only $17 billion spent on the program in 2000 and now it’s an $80 billion program. To put it simply, welfare becomes an addiction.