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Food stamp debate brings out haters of the american poor - plastic sheet cutter machine for sale Business,Business News,Business Opportunities It didn’t take long for the more hard-hearted of the small-government crowd to respond to the news that the feds spent about $75.7 billion on their food stamp initiative last year, which is double what it spent four years ago.Widely posted on Facebook last week was this pithy statement: “The Food Stamp Program, administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is proud of the fact it is distributing the greatest amount of free meals and food stamps ever. Meanwhile, the National Park Service, administered by the U.S. Department of the Interior, asks us ‘Please Do Not Feed the Animals.’ Their stated reason for the policy is that the animals will grow dependent on handouts and will not learn to take care of themselves.”The assumption that everyone who needs assistance is somehow dependent, lazy or unwilling to “learn to take care of ...