States with most people stealing from the Government

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1. Mississippi

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In summary, the seven states who rely on food stamps the most instead of getting a job like the rest of America vote republican. Rather ironic, shouldn't you guys be voting democrat since the republicans want to constantly make cuts to the food stamp program.

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In summary, the seven states who rely on food stamps the most instead of getting a job like the rest of America vote republican. Rather ironic, shouldn't you guys be voting democrat since the republicans want to constantly make cuts to the food stamp program.

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You aren't very politically astute.

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On Friday, President Obama added his signature to legislation that will cut $8.7 billion in food stamp benefits over the next 10 years, causing 850,000 households to lose an average of $90 per month. The signing of the legislation known as the 2014 Farm Bill occurred at a public event in East Lansing, Mich.

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Obama actually has made cuts to the food stamp program, and worked to regulate the program better than anyone before him ever has.

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The same Census report showed that although nearly 1.2 million fewer people were living in poverty in 2013 than the year before, the number still remains nearly 5.5 million higher than in 2008. The official poverty rate — meaning the percentage of the population living below the poverty line — dropped 0.5 percent in 2013, but it still remained 1.3 percent higher than in 2008.

Meanwhile, the number of people receiving benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as "food stamps," bounced back up by nearly 400,000 since the period covered in our previous update. As of June, the most recent period for which the government has released monthly figures, the total stood at 46.5 million people. That's 2.7 percent below the peak reached in December 2012, but it's still 14.5 million, or more than 45 percent, higher than the month before the president was first sworn in.

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