[lbo-talk] Food Stamps make people fat

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

> > A bit old, but if you're looking for some fuel for America-bashing, 
> > here's some: Kate O'Beirne wondering why we spend all this money on 
> > Food Stamps when poor people are so damned fat: 
> > <http://www.nationalreview.com/kob/kob.asp>.
> >
> > Doug

This piece may be disingenuous, but is not it that the main
beneficiaries of government subsidies are junk food manufacturers and
slum lords (section 8)?  It is easy to turn this argument around and
finger point at these two industries rather than the federal programs.

Wojtek