Josh Hawley Is Making The Wrong Argument For More Food Stamp Welfare

By: Eddie Scarry

If you were indifferent about the federal food stamps program drying up come Saturday, go read Republican Sen. Josh Hawley’s op-ed in the New York Times this week. It’ll make you wish the day could just get here already.

As Hawley has done with other forms of obscene welfare, he’s once again romanticizing the type of people who receive it — “the widow and the orphan” — and calling on Congress to push out more. “Saturday will be another grim milestone,” he wrote Tuesday. “That is the day about 42 million Americans will lose federal food assistance. Congress must not let that happen. America is a great and wealthy nation, and our most important wealth is our generosity of spirit.”

See there? Just tap into that generosity of spirit of yours and let’s make sure more than 40 million people are fed without having to use their own money!

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READ FULL ARTICLE HERE… (thefederalist.com)

 

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