07.15.13
WhiteManistan’s party of malice
From Krugman, today, on the GOP push to kill food stamp programs:
But these days almost half of food stamp recipients are non-Hispanic whites So [food stamps are] not all about race … What is it about, then? Somehow, one of our nation’s two great parties has become infected by an almost pathological meanspiritedness, a contempt for what CNBC’s Rick Santelli, in the famous rant that launched the Tea Party, called “losers.??? If you’re an American, and you’re down on your luck, these people don’t want to help; they want to give you an extra kick. I don’t fully understand it, but it’s a terrible thing to behold.
List of states, by population, from least to most, that total the number of people on food stamps in the US:
Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Delaware, Montana, Rhode Island, Hawaii, New Hampshire, Maine, Idaho, Nebraska, West Virginia, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Arkansas, Kansas, Mississippi, Iowa, Connecticut, Oregon, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Kentucky. That’s 26. Counted here last year.
Image collection for “food stamps.” Illustrative and not in any good way.