RFD America

The health care debate is about more than health care. In fact, anyone with any sense at all would know that if the Government was concerned about controlling the high cost of health care or improving the health of Americans, all they would have to do is reign in the USDA, the agency that oversees the Nation's agriculture industry and the distribution of $4.3 billion in food assistance. Now, on the face of it, administering both food industry and consumer policies might not appear to be a contradictory arrangement, until you realize that billions of taxpayer dollars are being shuffled and distributed to corporate corn growers and giant food processors. The USDA is the equivalent of a street hustler, inviting the taxpayer to play a rigged shell game in which they will be robbed blind.

The USDA is not only charged with making sure America's poor have access to enough food, they insist it is their job to make sure poor people have access to nutritional food. In order to reflect their goals, the USDA recently changed the name Food Stamp Program (FSP) to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). And right there is where we run into the first problem. Are we to believe that people on SNAP are eating nutritionally? Don't let the snazzy acronym fool you. Because nothing could be further from the truth. Here's just some of the nutrition your taxpayer dollars can buy for a needy family: