Source: JimBovard.com
by 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 leftover benefits on their Electronic Benefit Cards (EBTs), and because vast numbers of food pantries and other private charities provided relief. Democrats accused Trump of ‘weaponizing hunger.’ But the real problem is that politicians going back more than half a century have weaponized dependency to destroy limits on government power.” (11/12/25)
https://jimbovard.com/blog/2025/11/12/food-stamps-and-the-federal-war-on-self-reliance/