You know I'm not found of the food stamp program. But we all love radio commercials. At least I do. Now there are radio commercials encouraging criminals to apply for food stamps. About 1 out of 6 people in the U.S. now rely on some form of public assistance. Why? Because we make it easy!
New Mexico, one of six states to get a food stamp participation grant, paid for outreach workers to work in areas with a high level of poverty but a low participation rate in the food stamps program. These areas are largely Hispanic.
So they go into these areas and they try to talk these people, most of whom are here illegally, into applying for food stamps. They try to de-stigmatize the program with advertisements in English, Spanish and Navajo. In Santa Fe, they got a $260k government grant to set up stores like Whole Foods to accept food stamps.
Now, Orange County, California has a Spanish language news report and ad campaign to encourage these people to get on food stamps and bring up the participation rate. In 2004, the Dept. of Agriculture worked in partnership with the Mexican Embassy to pass out brochures and air public service announcements encouraging food stamp use. Many of the people who weren't using the food stamps in Orange County were criminal illegal aliens.
New York City holds seminars to inform people that applying for food stamps does not affect their immigration status.
So not only do we look the other way as they flood across the border, we go out of our way to help them plunder government coffers.
New Mexico, one of six states to get a food stamp participation grant, paid for outreach workers to work in areas with a high level of poverty but a low participation rate in the food stamps program. These areas are largely Hispanic.
So they go into these areas and they try to talk these people, most of whom are here illegally, into applying for food stamps. They try to de-stigmatize the program with advertisements in English, Spanish and Navajo. In Santa Fe, they got a $260k government grant to set up stores like Whole Foods to accept food stamps.
Now, Orange County, California has a Spanish language news report and ad campaign to encourage these people to get on food stamps and bring up the participation rate. In 2004, the Dept. of Agriculture worked in partnership with the Mexican Embassy to pass out brochures and air public service announcements encouraging food stamp use. Many of the people who weren't using the food stamps in Orange County were criminal illegal aliens.
New York City holds seminars to inform people that applying for food stamps does not affect their immigration status.
So not only do we look the other way as they flood across the border, we go out of our way to help them plunder government coffers.
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