With an unprecedented one out of five households now on food stamps, the farm bill was also seen as a massive giveaway to the corporate interests who profit from Obama’s unprecedented expansion of welfare spending.
A report by the Government Accountability Institute found that since 2004 JP Morgan has bagged at least $560,492,596 processing Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) cards. And a Fox News Sean Hannity special with GAI President Peter Schweizer and Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon revealed that soda makers haul in an estimated $4 billion a year in taxpayer money through food stamp purchases.
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