By Frosty Wooldridge
November 20, 2025
During the 43-day democrat-led government shutdown that solved nothing, the most pressing news stemmed from the reports that 42,200,000 (millions) of Americans could not access their EBT cards, food stamps, WIC, ADC, SNAP and other food assistants.
“Programs for food assistance in the U.S. include the Supplemental Nutritional. Assistance Program (SNAP), which provides electronic benefits for groceries and Special Supplemental Nutrition program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), which offers food, nutrition education, and referrals to low-income pregnant, postpartum, and breastfeeding individuals and children up to age 5. Other programs include the Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP), for food banks, and the Child and Adult care Food program (CACFP), for care centers, and the. Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) for low-income seniors.”
Cost to the American taxpayer?
In fiscal year 2024, the cost to American taxpayers for food stamps was approximately $103.3 billion. This spending covered monthly benefits (the majority of costs) and administrative expenses for states, nutrition education, and employment programs. Federal spending has decreased from pandemic highs of around $128 billion in 2021.
Dear reader, that’s a lot of money you pay for endless millions of people to eat off your work, off your taxes, off your life. It means there are already a lot of Zohran Mamdani Communists-Marxists in Washington DC.
Let’s see, you pay for 400,000 anchor babies and their illegal alien mothers, annually, added to our tax burden. When you start adding up that each mother and her child live off your tax dollars for 18 years, it starts to hurt when you’re working eight hours a day and 50 weeks a year. Worse, those anchor babies into the millions of them, enjoy “free” breakfasts and lunches on your dollar. For them, it’s a gravy train; for you, it’s a heavy load.
Even more distressing, 1.1 million legal immigrants arrive annually into America without education, work skills, and/or any kind of personal accountability to care for themselves. When you look at the 300,000 Muslims in Detroit, Michigan and the 125,000 Muslim Somalians in Minneapolis, they enjoy SSI benefits that they soak-up for decades as they sit on their butts doing nothing. Throw in another 1,000,000 legal immigrant Muslims in New York City living off your tax dollars, and the price begins to climb higher and higher.
What about those 42 million people sucking off the government teat each day of the year? If we look at the educational nightmare spreading across America like an illiteracy plague, we’ve got millions of kids who cannot read, write or perform simple math. We’ve got 7 out of 10 African-American children growing up with single mothers utilizing EBT food stamps by the millions. The trouble is…those kids of those mothers grow up to repeat the same cycle of illiteracy and government assistance whether it’s food, clothing or housing.
It reminds me of the time when I worked for United Van Lines with the Corrigan Moving Systems of Detroit, Michigan as my summer job from teaching. After finishing loading 15,000 pound headed for Miami during a 12-hour day, I walked into Kroger’s to stock my 64-quart cooler with food for the 40-hour trip to South Florida. I happened to look at the Detroit Free Press where one minority woman just birthed her 24th child on ADC. Yours and my tax dollars paid for their births, food, housing, schooling and medical care for the next 18 years.
I stood there muttering, “I’m working 18 hours of hard labor a day to pay for this lady to have 24 kids…what’s wrong with this picture? Why are my tax dollars paying her to have 24 kids?”
So, I ask you, “What is wrong with this picture of 42 million people living off our tax dollars?”
Why haven’t our brilliant Congressional critters in DC created mandatory “Workfare for Welfare” bills to get those lazy, do nothing, financial blood-suckers into jobs? Why haven’t they put limits on any women having 24 kids? Maybe offer her $50,000.00 for a voluntary tubal ligation. That would save her and save all of us the cyclical nightmare of fatherless children, criminal enterprises and a host of other consequences we’re all paying for with our taxes.
Work provides persons with meaning in their lives. Eight hours of work gives a person a place to go. It gives community. It gives that person an opportunity to contribute to the American Dream, to live the American Dream. It provides a house or apartment, and food to eat. It means movies, trips, weekends to travel and a host of possibilities in our nation.
While our government spends trillions of dollars on going to the moon or traveling to Mars, we’ve got a lot of “Social Rot” in our major cities.
Take Chicago, Illinois: it’s a hell hole of 20 to 60 shootings every weekend of the year. Thousands of innocent-violent youth have been killed in the past decade. It’s a killing zone. Its schools are not graduating kids with any tools to deal with living in America. Maybe we should be spending more money to enhance the kids in our cities who are lost, drugged-up, fatherless, addicted to 7 hours and 22 minutes a day on their cell phones, and another dozen consequences experienced in Chicago and other large cities.
Why don’t we create solutions by annual conferences attended by the best educational minds, the best health minds, the best psychologists, the best athletic trainers, and the best sports heroes in our country? We need to inspire, encourage and motivate our youth.
EDUCATION OF OUR YOUTH IS THE KEY TO OUR FUTURE
Because if we don’t, what happens when the food stamps hit 50 million or 75 million or even 100 million people who are lost in the dregs of America? What happens when our 773,000 homeless Americans become 1 or 2 or 3 million homeless? What happens when Chicago’s or New Orleans’ murder rates reach into the hundreds every weekend?
At what point DO we DO SOMETHING? At what point do we, as Americans, demand solutions from our leaders?
Because right now, we’re kicking the can down the road. And, the road is going to get bumpier and bumper. It will lead the same disaster as the Baltimore Bridge that collapsed when a cargo ship smashed into it two years ago. Simple solutions to safeguard the bridge would have been cheaper than the $5 billion to reconstruct it.
Again: EDUCATION OF OUR YOUTH IS THE KEY TO OUR FUTURE
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