Where the food stamp program started?

Answer 1

The Food Stamp Program started during the Great Depression as a means to ration food. The main use was to ensure that prices on food stuffs would not drastically increase beyond the means of what people could afford. Things such as sugar were a highly valued commodity.

It was trans-morphed in 1939 to make it into a social program for the poor. Many Republicans felt that this was a means for lazy people to live off of the government, so in the 1990's they wrote a piece of Federal Legislation that demanded that all states change the program to a more temporary program, which greatly hurt many of the poor. In the 1990's Democrat President William Clinton, under massive pressure, signed this piece of legislation into law, although he admitted that he did not disagree with it, and even went so far as to agree that the US it at war with the poor, in his State of the Union Address in 1997.

As of December 24, 2010, there are 1 in 6 US Citizens that are starving every day. Many people are starting to directly relate this change from the 1990's to this figure. Some, however, are still saying that the US is doing too much for the poor, and need to do even less, and want to get rid of even more Federal Programs to help those people.