Co-Dependent Gov. Newsom: California Has 5.5 Million Food Stamp Recipients
California receives approximately $1.1 billion in SNAP benefits from the federal government each month
By Katy Grimes, November 4, 2025 2:55 am
Remember the Welfare to Work program, signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1996? Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich led the Republican-controlled Congress and passed two major bills to reform the welfare system. Those bills were initially vetoed by Clinton.
The purpose was emphasizing a work component, and recalibrating welfare offices to facilitate employment assistance. This led to the greatest increase in children leaving poverty, according to Gingrich.
After negotiations succeeded between Clinton and Gingrich, Congress passed welfare to work, which included a five-year lifetime limit on welfare benefits.
It was a smashing success. However, President Barack Obama gutted welfare to work in 2012.
Today in California, we have 5.5 million welfare and SNAP benefits recipients. Why?
The United States has 42 million recipients on SNAP benefits – Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, formerly known as food stamps. The U.S. population is 342,034,432 million. So 12% of the U.S. population is on food stamps.
Of California’s 39 million residents, 5,500,000 million receive SNAP benefits – food stamps. With the Democrats’ government shutdown, SNAP recipients may not receive the funding. California receives approximately $1.1 billion in SNAP benefits from the federal government each month.
“California has approved $80 million in extra funding for food banks to help families facing hardship,” reads the headline in an email from the California State Council on Developmental Disabilities.
What? $80 million in extra funding? What “extra funding?”
Those with developmental disabilities in California are a small fraction of the 5.5 million SNAP recipients. It’s an interesting deflection by the State to have the California State Council on Developmental Disabilities send out the email.
This announcement came Sunday just ahead of Governor Gavin Newsom’s address:
Governor Newsom announced a statewide effort to deploy CalGuard and California Volunteers to assist food banks last month and fast-tracked $80 million to food banks throughout the state to help address cuts to food benefits as a result of President Trump’s failure to reopen the federal government, resulting in 5.5 million recipients of CalFresh experiencing delays to November food benefits.
BUT WAIT! THERE’S MORE from the State of California Department of Social Services:
Need Help Getting Food?
If you or someone you know needs food, there are programs and people who can help.
Here are three ways to find food in your community and get current updates.
Call 2-1-1
Dial 2-1-1 anytime, day or night. You’ll be connected with someone who can help you find free food and local resources in your area. Most areas in California offer this free service.
Get Updates from CalFresh
If you already get CalFresh benefits, visit the CDSS CalFresh websitehttps://www.cdss.ca.gov/calfresh or call the Customer Service Center at 1-877-847-3663 for the latest updates.
Important CalFresh Updates (October–November 2025)
Because of the federal government shutdown, some CalFresh benefits may be delayed in November. You can still use your EBT card as usual for any benefits already loaded. County social services offices remain open. You can visit in person or call 1-877-847-3663.
Contact a Local Food Bank
California has 42 food banks that give out food and connect people to other helpful services. Food banks are community nonprofits that provide free groceries, fresh produce, and connections to other local help.
To find your nearest food bank, visit: www.cafoodbanks.org/find-food.
It comes in Spanish too:
¿Necesita ayuda para conseguir comida?
Si usted o alguien que conoce necesita comida, hay programas y personas que pueden ayudarle.
Aquí hay tres formas sencillas de encontrar comida en su comunidad y obtener información actualizada:
I remember when people used to rely on churches, food closets, neighbors, friends and family if they came up a little short. Now the government is in the free-food business, competing with churches, charities and families, which require accountability from recipients, as well as actually meeting their needs.
Now in California, recipients of SSI/SSP benefits are eligible for CalFresh Food benefits for the first time. (Supplemental Security Income, State Supplementary Payment for older Californians.)
The State of California provides state-funded food benefits through the California Food Assistance Program (CFAP) for “noncitizens” who do not qualify for CalFresh benefits which are federally funded. The state assists “noncitizens” in qualifying and applying for the benefits.
How many Californians are really hungry? Really hungry? Everywhere I go, nearly everywhere I look, whether at Walmart, Target, Starbucks, CVS, Trader Joes, walking through a college campus, lunching or dining out, or at a high-end shopping mall, Californians are clearly well-fed, chunky, hefty and far too many are fat – seriously and dangerously fat.
Many of these folks are well-groomed – manicured nails and toes, gorgeous professionally colored and styled hair, donned in expensive athleisure wear, wearing Apple Watches and carrying $1,400 iPhones, driving late model cars.
“Self-care” is all the rage today.
And many are using EBT cards for their grocery purchases. They think it’s free money they are entitled to.
At the grocery stores I frequent, women driving up in expensive cars carrying Louis Vuitton bags are using California EBT Visa cards to purchase their groceries. And they treat it as if it’s a secret society one is invited to join, laughing as they screw the state government – and their neighbors – allowing the California welfare system to pick up the tab for their groceries.
Several friends in the grocery business alerted me some years ago to the scam – well-off people using California’s CalFresh taxpayer-funded benefits to pay for their groceries. People in my older Sacramento neighborhood use SNAP benefits – a neighborhood with many homes that sell for more than $1 million, $2 million+… with Teslas, Mercedes, BMWs, Range Rovers, a few Maserati’s and Ferraris and everything in between in the driveways.
Cal-Fresh is what used to be called “food stamps” for legitimately poor and working poor families on welfare public assistance programs. Welfare and food stamps go back to the New Deal and the Great Depression when poverty and hunger were very real – and hungry Americans were too skinny.
How does the United States, the wealthiest country in the world, have 42 million people on public assistance, and in California 5.5 million people on public assistance? That’s 12 percent of the American public that receive welfare benefits.
While there are perhaps millions of actual Americans who need food assistance because family members are ill or disabled, or out of work, that’s not what we are addressing here.
It’s fraud. It’s too easy to defraud the federal and state government out of welfare and food assistance, among other welfare benefits.
Thus, we see women rolling into parking spots at a Nugget Market, Von’s or Raley’s supermarket, driving a Tesla or Suburban or the Cadillac of Minivans, even Porsches, shouldering lovely Louis Vuitton or Balenciaga handbags, wearing Lulu Lemon athleisure wear, Adidas by Stella McCartney, Ernest Leoty couture-inspired high-end athleisure, with hair, nails, skin and lashes coiffed, shaped, peeled and injected to perfection, talking into the latest iPhone, while they shop for food… and pay with an EBT card.
I’ve been witness to it. And the grocery store clerks are on the front line, maintaining expressionless faces when well-manicured hands use their credit cards to pay – their government issued credit cards.
I think of the single moms who could use help; the military families who could use help; the disabled young adult, and the dad who just lost his job who may need government assistance. There are circumstances in which people need a safety net, which was the original purpose of food assistance and rent assistance, and eventually welfare assistance – but not 42 million fat Americans driving luxury SUVs, nor 5.5 million Californians.
Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said Sunday on “Fox & Friends Weekend” that 700,000 have been taken off the SNAP program, and that there will be drastic reform to ensure those who are truly vulnerable receive benefits. Axios reported that Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins criticized SNAP Friday, saying the government shutdown exposed a program that, under the Biden administration, became “so corrupt.”
When well-off employed people take advantage of America’s welfare system, they should have the book thrown at them for fraud.
For those Californians who receive CalFresh benefits, they can also connect you to:
- Medi-Cal: Health coverage for California families
- Tax credits: CalEITC and more
- California Lifeline: Discounted home phone and cell phone services
- Affordable Connectivity Program
The Heritage Foundation reminds us that President Ronald Reagan eloquently said:
Welfare needs a purpose: to provide for the needy, of course, but more than that, to salvage these, our fellow citizens, to make them self-sustaining and, as quickly as possible, independent of welfare.
We should measure welfare’s success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.
A California native and Navy mom, Katy lives in Sacramento, CA.
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This article mixes accurate numbers with misleading framing and unsupported claims. Here’s what it gets wrong:
1️⃣ Exaggerated Fraud Claims:
The author leans on anecdotes about “Teslas and luxury cars” to suggest widespread CalFresh abuse, but provides no verified data. State and federal audits consistently show very low fraud rates in SNAP/CalFresh. Anecdotes aren’t evidence of systemic misuse.
2️⃣ Misuse of “Welfare”:
CalFresh isn’t state “welfare.” It’s a federally funded nutrition assistance program under SNAP that helps low-income households — including working families, seniors, and people with disabilities — buy groceries. Framing all recipients as “dependents” distorts what the program actually does.
3️⃣ Misleading Use of Numbers:
The 5.5 million figure is roughly accurate, but it isn’t proof of new dependency. The Legislative Analyst’s Office and USAFacts both show California’s participation averaging 5.3 million people in 2023–24. That level matches long-term population trends and rising food costs — not a spike in fraud. (LAO Report 2024)
4️⃣ One-Sided Framing:
The article portrays CalFresh as a burden rather than what it is — a response to record food insecurity affecting over 1 in 5 Californians. (CalBudgetCenter) Most recipients receive around $189 per person per month, which barely covers basic nutrition, not luxury.
In short, this isn’t “dependence on government.” It’s a federally supported safety net working as intended — helping millions of Californians keep food on the table in one of the most expensive states in the country.
Total BS.
CalFresh is most definitely welfare assistance. It has always been known as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. It pays eligible families a monthly benefit for basic needs and was supposed to be a temporary assistance program, according to the federal government.
That’s not accurate — CalFresh and TANF are two completely different programs.
🔹 CalFresh is California’s version of the federal SNAP program (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). It only provides help for buying food and groceries — not cash.
🔹 TANF, on the other hand, stands for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, a cash aid program run by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). In California, TANF is known as CalWORKs — not CalFresh.
These programs have different federal laws, budgets, and eligibility rules:
SNAP/CalFresh comes from the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (USDA).
TANF/CalWORKs comes from the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (HHS).
Even the California Department of Social Services confirms this on its official pages:
CalFresh → cdss.ca.gov/calfresh
CalWORKs (TANF) → cdss.ca.gov/calworks
So, CalFresh has never been TANF or “welfare” in that sense — it’s a nutrition program that helps families afford food, not a cash-assistance program. (USDA SNAP Overview)
A federal audit of 28 major programs is being conducted across various federal departments to determine whether illegal aliens have been getting taxpayer-funded benefits. This could result in many illegals aliens being removed from receiving benefits like SNAP/CalFresh.
California is projected to spend nearly $10 billion on health benefits for illegal aliens during the 2025–2026 budget period, an amount 28 times greater than what the state plans to allocate for its own law enforcement agencies, according to a new report from the Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO). The report estimates that 1.7 million illegal immigrants are enrolled in Medi-Cal, California’s joint state-federal Medicaid program, representing about 11% of total participants. These enrollees receive full medical, dental, vision, and prescription coverage. Illegal aliens’ health care benefits now account for roughly one-fourth of all state Medi-Cal spending. The LAO’s findings, released in October, show the cost of providing full health benefits to illegal aliens has surged 35% higher than the $7.4 billion figure Newsom cited in his January 2025 budget proposal.
My BS to Jessica Terry.
25 years ago I went through the parking lot of the local social services building. The parking lot was full, only one or two cars remotely resembled the condition or age of vehicles owned by poor people circa 1975. I then drove through parking lots of some stores lower income people patronize, Those vehicles tended toward worn and older. I know a woman who manages low income apartments. A lot of times the renters had better furniture and electronics than she could afford. It’s probably no coincedence that all those picjup trucks with tool boxes in the parking lot left around 6am and returned sometime after normal working hours. I’ve personally known people who were getting food stamps while working for cash and I’ve been hit up with paying half the value cash for groceries obtained with ebt cards. I’ve got some other items like lincoln navigators in the driveway (in someone else’s name – in the old days it would be a older but reliable car), expensive, top line furnishings in the house (claimed they were gifts, didn’t happen in the old days), and so on. There are people who are poor through no fault of their own, but there are others who are multi-generational layabout grifters and there are people who scam the system. That’s a fact.
So Jessica Terry claims in her post above that audits consistently show very low fraud rates in the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits which are known as CalFresh in California. Really?
Who performs those audits that are part of a federal requirement for random case reviews to ensure proper benefit issuance and correct processing by local county agencies? It’s the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) that not only administers the CalFresh program but also conducts audits through its CalFresh Quality Control and Improvement Section. It’s a major conflict of interest having a state department that administers a program also audit the program for compliance? There is a lack of necessary independence when the CDSS is both running and evaluating the program!
Are CDSS auditors hired based on their auditing education/experience and not based on DEI factors like their race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, etc.? Probably not in many cases because state administrators have long gotten around the prohibitions of Proposition 209 through various stealth methods without explicitly stating or highlighting DEI as a hiring criterion.
The CDSS Director is Jennifer Troia who was appointed by Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom and she makes almost $250K a year. How well is the CDSS running the Calfresh program considering that Democrats control it and they have a long history of lax oversight over social service programs?
Illegal aliens are not eligible to receive federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, known as CalFresh in California. Does CDSS ensure that all those receiving CalFresh benefits are eligible to receive them based on their immigration status? Probably not considering open border Democrats control the program?
In January 2025 the USDA requested that every state send their their SNAP data so it could be analyzed to make sure illegal immigrants aren’t getting benefits that are meant for American families. 29 states provided the SNAP data but 21 Democrat controlled states refused to provide the SNAP data.
Not surprisingly Hair-gel Hitler Newsom and the criminal Democrat thug mafia that controls California did not provide California’s SNAP data to the USDA. In fact, California’s Democrat Attorney General Rob Bonta, the Yale trained lawyer who has ZERO ethics, sued the USDA for even requesting the SNAP data.
Zerohedge recently had an article mapping where illegal aliens are receiving food stamps from USDA and California was the leader enrolling hundreds of thousands on food stamps. (https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/mapping-where-non-citizens-receive-most-food-stamps)
Conservative Benny Johnson discussed the lawless abuse if the SNAP program on his latest Youtube podcast with Republican Congressman Jeff Van Drew who has outlined solutions to the problem: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSKoAHIxD9U&t=12s)
Thank you TJ for bringing to light some of the areas where there is a lack of independent oversight and clear conflicts of interest. It’s like the CDC hiding info regarding vaccine injuries and presenting a rosy picture and waving the hand, saying “Nothing to see here.”
I’d think that anybody distributing the money should be able to define by what rules that money is used. They should cut off all money to states that refuse to provide info on how the money is being disbursed. That’s called accountability.
Yes indeed, TJ. CDSS “auditing” CalFresh is like letting the fox audit the chicken count. 🙁
A couple years ago I was at the checkout at the local Albertsons store when the lady in front of me presented a different looking card to pay for her groceries. After the lady finished and went to her car, I asked the cashier what kind of card it was. She advised me that it was an EBT card. I had never seen one before. I paid for my couple of items and on my way to my car, I noticed the same lady getting into a new Mercedes convertible. Like must be nice.
Spoken like a person who resides in the make-believe economy (works for the govt, academia, NGO, etc). I shop at Wal Mart and I see food stamp abuse all the time. The biggest abuse is making poor food choices. I never see welfare people buying bage of potatoes, vegetables, or stew meat. They all buy a bunch of easy-to-eat junk food that ruins their heath (which we then have to give them free health care for). The clothes they are wearing may not be fashionable in the upper class neighborhoods, but they also reflect poor choices. I dont see them wearing jeans, t shirts, and other working class clothes. Instead I see them wearing trash culture toggery that is garish and screams “I am a welfare dirtbag that wears designer pajamas to a grocery store to buy Doritos and Red Bull for dinner”.
Probably 7 years ago I had to make $1,000.00 last 4 months, and I did it. My house and vehicle are payed for and I ate out of a soup kitchen a couple days a week. I was uninsured for a long time after my cobra ran out and I wasn’t quite eligible for SSI but managed to get my modest retirement after the 4 months (my body is beat down from a life of labor and I have a number of old work injuries that still hurt – it’s over). I paid cash for my medical treatment until the medical industry royally screwed me over when I got covid, so I got MediCal to tide me over until I was eligible for MediCare. The people I dealt with who work for california administering MediCal are the stupidest people on earth, it’s a wonder those single digit IQ buffoons manage to wipe their own posteriors without assistance. It took a long time to get anything done, and the practice I went to had a streak of incompetence. I now have a good insurance plan and my social security kicked in, I’m doing ok. I would be total screwed if my house wasn’t paid off or I had to pay rent. I was in the hospital for a few days recently. It was annoying that they insistantly tried to push government social services on me the day I was released, like someone to clean my house and do my shopping, and other things, almost like making meals for me and all that. They were like “why not?” when I wouldn’t answer their questions. I don’t want any part of it. Leave me the frick alone.
@My Experience. Thanks for sharing this. I avoid government programs that I don’t need or want so that taxpayers don’t get fleeced. 🙂
Uggh. 4th largest economy? Nope. Statistics are propped up by low wages paid to illegals funneling money to cartels and back to foreign countries. It’s ridiculous that people get benefits without even an attempt to work.
Some years ago, in the course of naively attempting to restore some sanity to my local school district, I attended many many many school board meetings and school events, and can confirm Katy Grimes’ account, having witnessed most of it with my own eyes and ears. This is apparently a model that is still used for Dem-Marxist politician maintenance of power through govt largesse.
In just this one example, the locus of hookups to government benefits —- mostly for those who were in the country illegally, but for others, too —- was the local school district. A contingent of leftist activists attended school board meeting and provided to illegal alien parents (and other willing adults) services that could meet every need; for example child care, interpretive services, hookups to an array of govt subsidy and service programs, etc.
Schools in illegal alien neighborhoods added full medical clinics on school grounds that served not only students but their entire families and others in the neighborhood, too. Word went out from the superintendent for staff and ever-present (non-profit program) activists to sign up as many students as possible for school-provided “free breakfast” which then quickly became “free breakfast and lunch” programs, whether needed or not, to increase so-called district “poverty” numbers. These “poverty” numbers were then used to show the need for increased federal (and I presume state) dollars to be funneled to the district. To illustrate the effect of such subsidies in helping to fatten parent bank accounts, a fellow watchdog attended a school event at one such school and saw a parking lot packed with the latest model SUVs, parents dressed in designer clothing using the latest and priciest video technology to film their children’s performances, and other such indicators of “poverty,” which could only be anecdotal, because no specific fraud could be proven.
I could go on but will stop there. These are only a few example “snapshots” of how it all worked, and obviously continues to work.
The 5.5 million Californians that take assistance should be an embarrassment not a boast for Government Newsom.
As Katy stated it is to be temporary not a lifestyle.
I grew up in a single parent household. At times, my mother had to lean on food stamps between jobs. I as a child thought it was cool to have special money. In one instance, as we approached the grocery store clerk I happily, loudly stated, “we have food stamps”! My mother was so embarrassed. She wanted to pay for her groceries with her money not the government’s. She explained to me afterward, it was temporary and she felt shame. That life experience left an indelible mark on my life. I knew as an adult to work hard and never be dependent on the government.
Many able bodied people feel it is their birth right to take government assistance so they can live a lifestyle of cheap luxury, fake nails, wigs, gold jewelry and expensive cars.
I would like to know how many of those residing in California are not American Citizens. The steady number of 5 plus million recipients should be decreasing not staying steady. It reflects we live in a broken state and not one where people can thrive independent of government intervention.
Again the program is broken and was never intended to be long term.
Yes, One Fed Up Cali Girl. We have friends in Palo Alto who told us about one of their acquaintances who immigrated and sponsored the parents. The parents apparently found out that they somehow qualify for programs like SNAP. Our friends were astonished that they would go ahead and claim those benefits since the family owned a business in their home country and is high income by any standard. Some people have no “shame”.
Yep!
I am not sure what the immigration laws state for the sponsors of family members but I strongly advocate that if an American citizen sponsors a new immigrant they should be financially responsible for their said family member until they get on their feet.
1️⃣ Exaggerated Fraud Claims:
The author leans on anecdotes about “Teslas and luxury cars” to suggest widespread CalFresh abuse, but provides no verified data. State and federal audits consistently show very low fraud rates in SNAP/CalFresh. Anecdotes aren’t evidence of systemic misuse.
@Jessica Terry. How reliable are previous state and federal audits? Nearly a million ineligible SNAP recipients is not a small number. Like ALL social programs run by Democrats, this program needs to be DOGE audited:
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/700000-ineligible-snap-recipients-purged-after-usda-uncovers-widespread-food-stamp
In the early 2000s I was working on a project in a more remote area of Riverside County, far enough away from home I was staying in a motel 40 or so miles away from the job. I met a couple of social service workers while there, they told me illegal aliens were fast tracked for welfare benefits. The town was decaying then, but the last time I worked in the town itself (not a job in the field) about 2018 it looked like a zombie apocalypse with all the dead eyed, homeless tweekers dragging themselves around town.
So now would be a good time to end the war on poverty that was started by the government in 1964, and it has failed to win the war some 60 years later. In 1969 the government spent $2,701 dollars a year for each person in poverty. In 2024 that same number was $29,214. It is estimated that there are 35.9 million folks in America in poverty. The government has proven itself as inept in being “compassionate” and it needs to get out of the way. As we all know the government solution most of the time gums up the works and makes the problem bigger as itis an oxymoron for the government to actually solve problems and reduce costs of operations.
@Hal. The only way to eliminate or change Democrat programs passed under the “War on Poverty” is to eliminate the filibuster rule. President Trump is right. Republicans must go ahead and invoke the “nuclear option” and do just that.
In January 2025 the USDA requested that every state send their their SNAP data so it could be analyzed to make sure illegal immigrants aren’t getting benefits that are meant for American families. 29 states provided the SNAP data but 21 Democrat controlled states refused to provide the SNAP data.
Not surprisingly Hair-gel Hitler Newsom and the criminal Democrat thug mafia that controls California did not provide California’s SNAP data to the USDA. In fact, California’s Democrat Attorney General Rob Bonta, the Yale trained lawyer who has ZERO ethics, sued the USDA for even requesting the SNAP data.
Zerohedge recently had an article mapping where illegal aliens are receiving food stamps from USDA and California was the leader enrolling hundreds of thousands on food stamps.
Conservative Benny Johnson discussed the lawless abuse of the SNAP program on his latest Youtube podcast with Republican Congressman Jeff Van Drew who has outlined solutions to the problem.
Just because it may be illegal for illegal aliens to get welfare benefits, as ocasio cortez pontificates, it doesn’t mean california isn’t shoveling trainloads of of those benefits to those very illegal aliens. Years ago on the KLOS Mark and Brian Show, a Barstow man with the handle of “Marijuana Bob” discussed the legality of smoking pot at the time – “if you’re leaning on the hood of a police car while smoking a joint, it’s probably illegal.” In other words, if you don’t get caught, it’s perfectly legal. With the outright, congenital lying and wildly over the top gaslighting the left does, all of california and half of nevada could be illegally accessing welfare benefits but since it’s against federal law to do so, it’s “move along folks, nothing to see here.” For a government agency to audit itself is like leticia james saying “I don’have a big butt” while she’s knocking over table lamps as she walks by.
Remember, this is the SAME STATE GOVERNMENT that allowed, what, $3 BILLION DOLLARS in fraulent Covid-19 unemployment “benefits” to be paid???
And then allowed the fail upward Julie Su to skate to the D.C. swamp instead of facing punishment for WASTING our tax dollars???
I think it as in the range of $40 BILLION dollars of fraud.
When I was working at Walmart the customer would use their EBT card and what was covered they would pull out this giant wade of cash and pay the rest. Plenty of fraud.
Until the Republicans and Democrats in Congress cut off the employed and productive folks tax money given freely by them (Congress) to the professional slackers, all the rancor will drive you crazy as it is intended to do.
The creeps in DC who literally throw your money at the chaos and crime facilitating programs have destroyed America.
Last September I invested heavily in gold persuant to the advice of a relative. in terms of dollars that position has returned a 64% on investment and the subject position readily liquidateable.
This begs the question; why should I or anybody else work and toil for dollars our rapacious and preditory government is devaluing.
Why the hell would anybody work for a rapidly devaluing commodity suh as the US dollar?
The folks in DC are stealing from you and I to support our detractors and guess what; cutting off the money for all the free s*** given the parasites will invoke rage: Newsom and the likes will have no place to hide.
Ponder a 64% ROI in 13 months.
All the chatter here is humoring and patronizing the DC criminals as we’re demonstrating our cowardice to legally and forcibly bring them down: Newsom Trump Congress, the Senate are in their entirety laughing at us while we feverishly peddle our hamster wheels to hell.
Funding food banks is not the answer. Funding jobs to feed people informs the economy that poverty is a good thing. Hello Newsom?
Yes indeed, Susan Shultz. As Hal mentioned above, this is not a “War” on poverty to eliminate it. Actually, it’s really facilitating of the use of poverty to gain a lifestyle. The examples given by contributors above show that many people are making “Poverty” a way of life….and a rewarding one.
Creating conditions where business can thrive so employers can hire people to provide marketable goods and services is the way to go, not make work employment funded by the government. No politcian has ever “created” a real job.