Spending on food stamp program doubles since 2008

Meanwhile in other news:

One of the big annual budget bills congress cranks out every year is the budget for the Department of Agriculture. This is often shortened to "the farm bill" or "the Ag bill," and the latest bill proposes to spend (drum roll)...just over $100 Billion.

But y'know, farming is hard, hard work, and my hat's off to every U.S. farmer for managing to produce such a huge bounty of food for relatively low prices. We all live SO well due to your hard work and ingenuity. So if congress wants to devote something under two percent of the total fed budget to helping farmers with price supports or whatever, I'm fine with that.

Oh, wait: Turns out $82 billion of that-- 80 percent of the total cost--is for food stamps. The amount spent on food stamps has doubled since 2008.

So let's review one more time:

• Unemployed people (assuming they're not independently wealthy) need food stamps to keep from starving;
  
• Fewer people would need food stamps if more people had jobs;
  
• Most jobs are created by businesses;
  
• Businessmen won't hire new people if the feel doing so will cost more than it makes; and finally
• Harsh regulations--whether from EPA or the Labor Department or the EEOC or ObamaCare or any other government agency--make it far more likely that a business will fail. QED.

And liberals/Democrats please note that I'm not advocating eliminating food stamps.