The US Food Stamp Program is a federal assistance program that provides food to low income people living in the United States. Benefits are distributed by the individual states, but the program is administered through the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Most food stamp benefits are now distributed using Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards but for most of its history the program has used paper vouchers of some kind.

Retirees in particular should be outraged at the federal government’s economic stimulus plan: The plan does not extend low income programs like unemployment benefits or food stamps. And, most critically it does not offer anything to seniors not receiving a paycheck (Social Security checks do not count.)

This SCHIPS, was to be another freebie, but not for the poor. $83,000 income for a family of 4. I know a family of 6 who live on less than 40,000 that will not take any welfare, health, food stamps. And there are many more just like them. Pride goeth forth to self reliance and freedom. IRemove all free programs, Have some Respect.

In 1960, John F. Kennedy, who had been shocked by the hunger he saw in West Virginia, made the fight against hunger a theme of his presidential campaign. After his election he created the modern food stamp program, which today helps millions of Americans get enough to eat.

Implied that the problem with the food stamp program is that single women on welfare are spending their food stamp money on "Twinkies, Pop Tarts and steak."

Food stamp users are helping pay for your credit card rewards programs, according to "Priceless? The Social Costs Of Credit Card Merchant Restraints" (PDF), a paper by Gerogetown professor Adam Levitin published in the Harvard Journal on Legislation.