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BOVARD: Food Stamps and the Federal War on Self-Reliance

November 17, 2025 James Bovard

During the recent government shutdown, the temporary interruption of benefits to 42 million food stamp recipients was hyped as practically the greatest human rights violation of our time. A Nation magazine headline howled: “The United States Is Letting Its People Starve.” But the delayed payments had scant impact in part because many states offered supplemental benefits, many recipients had … Read more

Morning Update: Women and Children

October 23, 2025October 22, 2025 GrokTALK!

Today, on Morning Update, how Your President isn’t letting Democrats take low-income women and their children hostage as part of the Left’s unnecessary shutdown. Links: Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or advertisers. Got Something to Say, We Want to Hear It. … Read more

MacDonald: Welfare Queen

July 13, 2025July 13, 2025 Steve MacDonald

From the “found in the inbox” files, some text and a TikTok from a reasonably young lady who not only doesn’t want to work, but also says she has no idea how. I don’t want to work. I told her she is not going to take my food stamps, she is not going to take … Read more

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Underwood: Feeling (Instead of Thinking) about Education

June 7, 2025 Ian Underwood

There is great value, when considering a question, to instead consider a generalization of the question. Then, having answered the more general question, you get the answers to more specialized versions for free, and you know they’re consistent with each other. This is actually a pretty large part of what we call thinking. Here’s an … Read more

Welfare Choice

March 24, 2025 Ian Underwood

Suppose someone said: I live in this state, but that state offers more generous welfare benefits. So I should be able to live here, but collect benefits from there. Or suppose someone said: I live in this county, but that county has a better nursing home, so I’d like my elderly mother to be cared … Read more

DOGE and Trump ARE Going To Cut Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare …

March 14, 2025 Steve MacDonald

…Fraud It takes commitment to defend whatever USAID was doing with our taxdollars, especially now that we know. The same can be said for the bufaoons at Treasury. Writing blank checks to whoever without a way to identify what it was for and which legislation authorized it. We had a way; they just chose to … Read more

Subsidies For All!

February 25, 2025February 25, 2025 Ian Underwood

So, Governor Ayotte is moving us down the road towards universal eligibility for Education Freedom Accounts (EFAs). Awesome! Now what will she do to move us towards universal eligibility for food stamps, and heating oil subsidies, and housing assistance? While I don’t need any of those subsidies, I would certainly like to have them. And … Read more

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EFAs Should Not be Universal

January 25, 2025 Ian Underwood

One of the many problems with universal EFAs is that they take money from people who don’t have it, to give to people who don’t need it. Let’s ask a straightforward question: Under what conditions should we give tax money to, or spend tax money on, people who can afford to get along without it? … Read more

Taxpayers Subsidize Vermonters’ Highest-In-The-Nation Health Insurance Rates

December 16, 2024 Michael Bielawski

While it’s recently been announced that Vermont will have to pay the highest premiums in the nation for health insurance for 2025, much of the tab for those struggling to pay will be picked up by taxpayers. “This year, many Vermonters will be eligible for better coverage plans at lower premium costs due to increased … Read more

Federal Commission To Propose Changes To Social Security

February 13, 2024 Ray Cardello

They can say it is bipartisan, which is rare in a Congress with a more secure boundary between the two Parties than our southern border. But I think you can also call it a Hail Mary when the proposed bill is sponsored by two Senators who have announced their retirement from public service.

London Breed is Falling Down, Falling Down …

December 21, 2023 Steve MacDonald

San Francisco Mayor London Breed has done the Dems in the Sh!tty by the Bay a solid without meaning to. She has exposed her Party for what it is. They will over-promise. They will run out of other people’s money. Things will have to be cut.

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Political Accountability Isn’t

November 11, 2023 Ian Underwood

Recently, I came across yet another in a long line of calls for ‘holding accountable those who are supposed to serve us.’ In this case, the writer was talking about public schools. Yes, we should definitely do that. We should hold accountable the people who operate our public school system.

Call Them What They Are: Welfare Schools

March 24, 2023 Ian Underwood

Anyone who knows me has heard me quote Confucius: The first step towards wisdom is to call things by their right names. What we call things determines how we think about them and how we act toward them. This is why it’s time for us to stop using the term public school and replace it with … Read more

Data Point – How “Poor” Is Really “Poor”?

November 24, 2021November 24, 2021 Skip

To the point of being three times the median income. Especially after the Government pours your money at them:

‘Your money should follow my child’

February 7, 2021February 7, 2021 Ian Underwood

A chant that has been gaining popularity is that where education is concerned, ‘the money should follow the child’. A second, related chant is that ‘parents should be able to decide how to spend their education dollars’.

“Your children’s children will live under communism, You Americans are so gullible.”

September 16, 2020
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Nikita Khrushchev was the leader of the Soviet Union in the late 1950s and early 1960s. According to Ezra Taft Benson among others, Nikita Khrushchev said, “Your children’s children will live under communism, You Americans are so gullible.

Government Welfare and Tax Rules Kill Families

September 11, 2020

The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) released a research report Thursday. It argues the design of welfare programs likely keeps some American couples from marriage. Those couples might otherwise get married. If they did marry it would benefit society. Marriage provides empirically validated benefits.

School funding alone won’t help children out of poverty

February 16, 2020 Don

To The Daily Sun, Haley Thomas’s 1/29/20 letter makes valid points about childhood and generational poverty, and their negative effects on peoples’ lives. But Thomas’s apparent solution, increased school funding, is simply inadequate, and, based on decades of history, unlikely to improve educational results or reduce poverty. Calling for school funding increases may make people … Read more

Taxpayer Win: SCOTUS Derails Green Card and Illegal Alien Gravy Train

January 28, 2020 Steve MacDonald

After a series of conflicting circuit court decisions, the US Supreme Court has handed President Trump (and taxpayers) a Yuge Immigration win. Yuge!

Obama Tried to Get People on Food Stamps, Trump Has Helped 6.2 Million Get Off Them

September 8, 2019 Steve MacDonald

From 2009 to 2012 Democrats added over 15 million people onto food stamps. It didn’t end there. The Feds encouraged states to sign people up for SNAP, Free School Lunches, and Welfare. The Medicaid Expansion provision of ObamaCare existed to get people on that too.