SNAP Benefits Are Running Out. The Cruelty Is the Point.
”In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson began many programs still in place today, and called it a “war on poverty,” putting programs like Medicaid, Social Security, and Food Stamps into place. It seemed more like the battle was prevention of single mother households. The Johnson Administration said the AFDC rewarded indolence, and condoned non-marital child bearing. Only 3.1 percent of births to white women and 24 percent of births to Black women were out of wedlock then. Those numbers roughly tripled over the next 30 years, and many blamed welfare [politicalresearch.org] as the cause, though that has been shown to be false.”