In its quest to promote taxpayer-funded entitlement programs, the Obama Administration has actually rewarded one state with a $5 million bonus for its efficiency in adding food-stamp recipients to already bulging rolls.
It’s part of the administration’s campaign to eradicate “food insecure households” by improving access and increasing participation in the government’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Incidentally, the program was recently changed to SNAP to eliminate the stigma that comes with a name like food stamps. Just a few months ago the federal agency that administers the program, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), launched a multi-million-dollar initiative to recruit more food-stamp participants even though the number of recipients has skyrocketed in the last few years.
This week Oregon officials bragged that the USDA has given the state $5 million in “performance bonuses” for ensuring that people eligible for food benefits receive them and for its “swift processing of applications.” The money comes on the heels of a separate $1.5 million award from the feds for making “accurate payments of food stamp benefits to clients.” So welfare recipients are clients? .
It marks the fifth consecutive year that Oregon has been “recognized” by the federal government for “exceptional administration” of the entitlement program, according to the announcement posted on the state’s Department of Human Services web site. The state official who runs SNAP assures that her staff will “continue working very hard to exceed expectations” so that Oregonians can “put healthy foods on their table quickly.”
Could this be why the number of food-stamp beneficiaries in Oregon has increased dramatically in the last few years? Since 2008 the state has seen a 60% boost in the number of food-stamp recipients, which means that more than 780,000 people (one out of five Oregonians) get groceries compliments of Uncle Sam.
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Someone with great investigative skills will be able to trace the final result of this windfall from DC to Oregon linked to JP Morgan Chase via present corrupt barry soetero administration. All transaction fees for food stamps are huge revenue for Chase bankstas.
Loathsome!!!
So now Oregon is becoming little California with swollen rolls of food stamp recipients who drive up to
the market in new cars, buy tons of groceries (nothing on sale here or anything of redeeming nutritional value – chips, sodas, etc) and flaunt it at the registers.
makes my blood boil.
That just insured that one-in-five will be registered dumbocrats that will vote for this festering piece of dog c*%p.
Why not award millions for getting people to work and off the dole???????????????????
Ortegan coinsedently is also the State that received a very large influx of Muslim immigrants, Thanks to O'Bozo, that are on welfarte and living in new houising and driving late model vehicles. I guess food stamps are logocal for a large non-working group of leaches!
This is absolutely getting to the point of revoluntary retaliation. Obama survents the constitution and in this case he is cramming it down the throats of the American people. We have Americans who could use the food stamps…but, Obama knows how to get votes any way and every way and it is always at the expense of those of us who pay the taxes!! After being a registered and voting democrat for almost sixty years…I never thought I could hate a Democratic President as much as I hate Obama. He is so cocky, conceited and arrogant and struts around in a manner as if to say "I am going to do as I please by hook or by crook! Watch me!"
Ladies and Gentlemen, may I introduce Cloward and Pivens ( google it ). Part of thier strategy to "overwhelm the system to crash it". as they did in New York City in the 70's. How many of you know of people applying for SSI being approved immediately. Not too long ago it took months or years and in some cases hiring an attorney.
This country in under assault by radicals of every stripe. Will we survive untill 2012?
As a resident of Oregon, I can only say this is no surprise. Oregon is Democraticly controlled just like California, & the people running the state are just as stupid, as those in California. For those of you that don't know, Oregon does not have a sales tax, so the businesses & the home owners are the ones stuck with taxes. My home has gone down in value from $535,000.00 to $320,000.00 since 2007, & yet the personal property taxes have gone up each year. Renters & freeloaders pay no taxes. Very typical of Democrats being in control, spread the wealth, rob someone who worked for a living to acquire something & give it to the people who don't.