Social and political criticisms
From Newsmax | July 28, 2013
The US Federal govt has allocated to about $74 billion to the food stamp program that is benefitting some 47.4 million Americans. But such food assistance, according to New York Post and Boston Herald find their ways being shipped abroad. They are placed in $40.00 dollar barrel and filled over time and shipped to Carribean countries. (That $74 billion would roughly equal the annual budget of the PHL)
Where does US get the money from this food stamps - from debt naturally. Welfare states, socialists programs have to finance these assistance to the poor through heavy borrowings. The money could have been better spent on building new factories, industries support of new enterprise (by tax incentives - the govt does not have to spend for it.) But governance is not all about efficiency and effectiveness.
It is about votes.
