By Matt Walsh | The Daily Wire
Many people receiving food stamps would rather rob you than have to pay for their own groceries.
Ever since the government shutdown began a month ago, it’s been a challenge to identify anyone in real life — outside of government employees — who has noticed or cared in any meaningful way. Even Democrats don’t seem particularly bothered by the shutdown. They’ve been spending most of their time lately complaining about the renovations that are underway in the East Wing of the White House — which is the kind of thing you complain about when you desperately need to find something to complain about, but you have absolutely no other options whatsoever.
Even if you normally don’t care much about how the government spends your money, this is the kind of development that might make you sit up and take notice. There are road closures and potholes that have probably caused you more inconvenience this month than the shutdown of the entire federal government. And as a result, for millions of Americans, it’s now impossible to ignore the fact that the government you’re forced to pay for — all of the salaries and all of the pensions and so on — doesn’t actually do very much. In the vast majority of cases, the federal government has zero impact on your day-to-day life, or your week-to-week life. They are not “public servants” in the sense that they serve you — in reality, you serve them.
Of course, that’s not to say that your money only goes to federal government bureaucrats. Most of it goes to welfare programs. And it’s the people who receive money from those welfare programs — particularly food stamps, otherwise known as SNAP benefits — who are now speaking up, extremely loudly, to complain about the federal government shutdown.
Yes, we’ve finally found a large group of people who are legitimately upset about the fact that the government is no longer fully operational. The search is over.
And these people are upset because, in a matter of days, federal funding for food stamps is going to run out. Watch:
Notice the flagrant inversion of reality here. If you stop subsidizing someone else’s grocery bill, even for a second, then according to the governor of Massachusetts, you’re “taking away” their food. It’s just like you robbed them. Of course, the actual robbery occurs when you’re forced, against your will, to pay for other people’s groceries every month. That’s the point where the government is taking something away.
But the really striking aspect of that CBS Report was the beginning of the segment, when they casually mentioned that one in eight Americans are on food stamps. That’s roughly 43 million people who are receiving taxpayer money to buy groceries, costing more than $100 billion a year, in a country of 340 million.
In a moment we’ll get into who exactly is receiving this money, and what they’re threatening to do in the next few days. (It’s important information, particularly if you plan on going to a grocery store in the near future without a firearm.) But first, you have to ask yourself: Did you have any idea that 43 million of the 340 million people in this country — again, one in eight — were receiving taxpayer-funded financial assistance to buy groceries?
The sheer scale of this program guarantees that, if we eliminated the food stamp program entirely, then prices at the grocery store would plummet.
This is by far the number-one everyday issue that most Americans care about — the rising price of groceries.
And it has a very obvious solution. When the government spends a massive amount of money subsidizing the purchase of a particular product, in any context, then the price of that product will go up. It was true for college tuition. And it’s true for groceries. The subsidy creates increased demand, but it doesn’t increase the supply. And therefore, the cost goes up, under the basic principle of supply and demand.
Take a look at this data from the Department of Agriculture:
Source: Department of Agriculture
Credit: U.S. Department of Agriculture
Monthly food stamp spending was just $4.5 billion in December of 2019. By December 2022, thanks to a massive expansion by the Biden administration, food stamp spending was $11 billion per month. That’s a lot of new, artificially subsidized demand. And guess what? In that same period, grocery prices went up.
By some estimates, food prices go up by 1% for every 12% increase in food stamp spending. In this case, we’re looking at a percentage increase of nearly 150%. So you can do the math on that. It’s more than a 10% increase in your grocery bill, every single month. This means that if you’re a working American and you aren’t on food stamps, you are actually paying — against your will — for other people’s groceries twice. You’re paying when the government takes the money out of your paycheck. You’re paying again every time you buy groceries for yourself.
So who exactly is benefiting from food stamps? And how much of this spending is actually necessary?
Put another way: How many people would starve to death, on the streets, if food stamps were abolished?
We all know that number is much, much less than the total number of food stamp recipients in this country. But how much lower is it? 90%? 100%? If food stamps were abolished tomorrow, how many people, exactly, would end up lying on the sidewalk, rib cages protruding, starving to death? Of the 40 million people on food stamps, how many actually depend on it to live?
These are questions we should probably answer, now that we know the enormous cost of these programs, thanks to the government shutdown. And while we’re at it, we should answer this question: Has anyone ever starved to death in the modern history of this country because they haven’t had access to food? Has a single sane person, through no fault of his own, shriveled and died because he couldn’t afford to buy anything to eat? Has there been a single example of someone with no family, no friends, no other forms of state or federal welfare he can tap into, no food banks or churches he can visit, no panhandling he can perform, no job, no soup kitchens nearby, no charity food drives in his area, nothing at all?
If something like that were ever to happen in the United States, then I’d be the first in line to say, get that person a taxpayer-funded hotdog. But I don’t actually think that’s ever happened in my lifetime. And no one has demonstrated to me otherwise. In fact, if you look at what food stamp recipients are saying — in their own words — you come away with the distinct impression that none of these people actually need food stamps. Instead, you come away with the impression that many of these people are simply entitled, lazy, barely literate, and frankly just very bad people. I’m not saying that describes every adult on food stamps, but it does seem to describe a lot of them. People who, rather than get a job, would prefer to rob grocery stores (and the people shopping inside them).
Here’s just a sampling of the response from food stamp recipients on TikTok. Watch:
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Among other things, if you are going to shop for groceries during this government shutdown, you have to keep these videos in mind. There are many, many threats like this. Many people receiving food stamps would rather rob you — and even kill you and eat you, apparently — than have to pay for their own groceries, for once in their lives.
I’ll highlight a couple more of these clips, mainly because they’re so over-the-top that it’s hard to believe they’re real.
But they are. Watch:
As best I could decipher, this individual — who doesn’t appear to be an American — is threatening to go to prison for the third time, if her — or maybe his, I can’t tell — food stamps don’t come through in November. And for good measure, you can hear a smoke alarm chirp, mid-rant. In case you missed it, it went like this: “I don’t gibba fugg, i’m not in da mood, my birthday in decembah,” then there’s the chirp, and then there’s the statement that, “thanksgibbin comin’ up.”
You are actively suffering, money is being taken out of your paycheck, and food off of your children’s plate, for the sake of this person. Remember that.
One question, right off the bat, is why someone who’s been to prison is allowed to receive food stamps in the first place. Why is this something we’re tolerating? You can commit multiple crimes, resulting in your incarceration, and then when you get out, you can force taxpayers to buy your groceries? That seems like a privilege we should rescind, immediately.
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