I have to admit that I’ve genuinely become interested in seeing how Democrats plan to defend the food stamp program, which is about to run out of money because of the government shutdown. American taxpayers are being forced to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on subsidizing other people’s groceries, which substantially raises the prices of groceries for everyone. And we the massive number of people who receive these subsidies — 45 million people, or 1 in 8 Americans — clearly don’t need them, for the most part.
According to the Wall Street Journal — and I promise I’m not making this statistic up — roughly three-quarters of adult food-stamp beneficiaries are overweight or obese. Three quarters of them. And these people are not particularly sympathetic, either. Half of them are on TikTok at the moment — BMI north of 40, smoke detector ringing off the hook, sass off the charts — and they’re threatening to rob their local grocery store the moment food stamps are cut off.
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