Jaw-Dropping Corruption: America's 47 Million Hungry Mouths Are Just Another Corporate Cash Cow

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AlterNet.org
Progressive Populist

By Mark Anderson
July 22, 2012


An attorney's courageous report exposes just how ruthless and greedy big business is capable of being.

A unique, hard-hitting report just completed by a California attorney exposes a largely unknown federal food-stamp racket involving large grocery retailers, food manufacturing giants and other private players, including the Federal Reserve and JPMorganChase, which combine to channel food stamp spending into a gravy train for the heavy hitters in the food industry.

And the report’s author, Michele Simon, says administrative costs added by these privateers inflate the overall price tag of the Supplemental Nutrition Allowance Program (SNAP). And high program costs are prompting potentially deep legislative cuts to SNAP in the pending Farm Bill — when a record 46 million Americans use SNAP, of which 47% are children.

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Another great article Rain,

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Another great article Rain, thanks

The corruption is so rampant in ALL areas of government, I think people have been too scared to look at the bigger picture, once you join all the dots it seems pretty bleak...but as we are seeing every day now, we have the power, change is coming and coming fast. :)

Viva Le LOVE Revolution!

JC

Thanks!

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Thanks for commenting, JC. Have a LOVEly day!
PS I agree with what you said.

namaste