Meanwhile AMERICANS are going hungry and homeless.

[Baretta19]

Curious why DEMOCRATS are NOT using this as a campaign booster it should fit on a bumper sticker,

"WE TAKE CARE OF ILLEGALS WHILE OUR CHILDREN GO HUNGRY AND HOMELESS"

 
Illegal Immigrant Children: Taxpayers Footing The Bill For Petting Zoos And Guitar Lessons


Illegal immigrant children are costing the taxpayers an average of $329 per day for their care. Federal housing facilities for the tens of thousands of undocumented children who crossed the Texas border this year reportedly include petting zoos complete with miniature horses, guitar lessons, and Tilapia fish farm operations.

Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/1576279/illegal-immigrant-children-taxpayers-footing-the-bill-for-petting-zoos-and-guitar-lessons/#5xXA1SbOMWL1IHCA.99


 
But hey why complain, we give AMERICANS $250.00 a MONTH to feed their children, a petting zoo, why gee whiz they live in rat infested section 8 housing, that a zoo, Guitar lessons, nah how can you beat the rhythmic sounds of gun fire while you lay on the floor, It's GREAT !

[Jim]

 
Thanks

[hoosier_daddy]

what hypocrites you boys are.  you support repubs who want to cut funding for food stamps, for head start programs that feed hungry american kids, so that they can increase spending for farm subsidies to rich farmers and giant agribusinesses to NOT grow certain crops, including tobacco, and act like you care about americans going hungry and homeless?  no immigrants can receive food stamps.  and yet you are always bitching about how many are on food stamps, yet you are crying great big crocodile tears about "meanwhile, americans are going hungry and homeless?"  hypocritical, much?

3 Times As Many SNAP Recipients Have Jobs As Do Not...

USDA: In 2010, 41 Percent Of SNAP Participants Lived "In A Household With Earnings." According to a USDA report on SNAP recipients for fiscal year 2010, "many SNAP participants had jobs." The report stated that "[n]early 30 percent of SNAP households had earnings in 2010" and "41 percent of all SNAP participants lived in a household with earnings." The report added, "For most of these households, earnings were the primary source of income." [USDA.gov, September 2011, emphasis original]

CBPP: In 2010, "Over Three Times As Many SNAP Households Worked As Relied Solely On Welfare Benefits For Their Income." A July report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) noted that "[n]early half of SNAP families with children are working families" and continued:

Over the last two decades, large shares of SNAP households have become working households. In 1989, 42 percent of all SNAP households received cash welfare benefits and only 20 percent had earned income. By 2010, over three times as many SNAP households worked as relied solely on welfare benefits for their income.

Despite the large jump in unemployment during the recession, the share of SNAP families with earnings has continued to increase in recent years.  This suggests that for a growing share of the nation's workers, having a job has not been enough to keep them out of poverty. [CBPP, 7/9/12]

... Or Are Seniors Or Children

USDA: In 2010, Most SNAP Participants Were "Children Or Elderly." According to the USDA report, most SNAP participants in 2010 "were children or elderly" Americans:

Most SNAP participants were children or elderly. Nearly half (47 percent) were under age 18 and another 8 percent were age 60 or older. Working-age women represented 28 percent of the caseload, while working-age men represented 17 percent. [USDA.gov, September 2011, emphasis original]

USA Today: Many SNAP Beneficiaries Were "Children Under Age 18," "Age 60 Or Older," Or "Working Poor." A January 18 USA Today article described what types of people receive SNAP benefits, according to the same USDA report:


Who gets food stamps?


The most recent Department of Agriculture report on the general characteristics of the SNAP program's beneficiaries says that in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2010:


••47% of beneficiaries were children under age 18.


••8% were age 60 or older. (55% Are Kids or Seniors)


••41% lived in a household with earnings from a job -- the so-called "working poor."


••The average household received a monthly benefit of $287.


••36% were white (non-Hispanic), 22% were African American (non-Hispanic) and 10% were Hispanic. [USA Today, 1/18/12.]

[Jim]

 
You sure do like to type a lot when none of what you said is remotely accurate.   What a waste of vowels.
 

[John Adams]

It is past time to turn off the spigot.....

[John Adams]

You sure do like to type a lot when none of what you said is remotely accurate.   What a waste of vowels.

That is democrat fead propaganda the troll keeps in his "ready" file.....

[sweetwater5s9]

Southwest Key Programs, a government contractor, charged $329 per day per child for the care offered through its California facility in Lemon Grove. Another similar facility in El Cajon is billing the federal government, and by extension the taxpayers, $316 per child each day for care.




What do you think about the $329 per day illegal immigrant children housing facility bill being levied against American taxpayers?

[John Adams]

Why should any American taxpayer dollars go toward any illegal alien......

Where is the notorious "deporter in chief"......

[Baretta19]

Once again Ho Boy posts WORTHLESS information which don't refute the FACTS, imagine that!

[John Adams]

It is nothing more that democrat propaganda feed, that is who pays him, no one would spend as much time and make as many posts as the hoosier troll were he not being paid.....

[Baretta19]

I've been curious how Ho Boy knows so much about the handouts from the gubmint, makes ya think he has first hand experience!

[John Adams]

It is not that he is the only one out there promoting this propaganda.....

The internet is awash with his like, the regime, much like the Nazi regime, attempts to control the message except it is failing in the current iteration as the internet provides much more availability....

That is what frustrates the left so much and why there is the talk of "net neutrality" and attempting to control the internet by the government.....