Food Stamps

I'm posting these excerpts because I just read (from the first article) that a woman in Texas shot herself and her two kids because she couldn't get food stamps. There are points about that which I am not interested in debating, so I'm not commenting on that part of it.

Under Republican Gov. Rick Perry, Texas has seen the number of citizens on food stamps swell to a record 3.7 million, and even more are eligible. Almost 1.4 million have begun receiving food stamps in the last four years alone, meaning that 15 percent of Texas are now in the program.

  Raw Story

Santorum told the group he would cut the food stamp program, describing it as one of the fastest growing programs in Washington, D.C.

Forty-eight million people are on food stamps in a country with 300-million people, said Santorum.

“If hunger is a problem in America, then why do we have an obesity problem among the people who we say have a hunger program?” Santorum asked.

  Think Progress

Can he truly be that stupid? Or is he just pandering?  Is this a problem with people named Rick?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.