It seems that our government can’t give food away quickly enough. After all, a lot of federal jobs are at stake if they don’t keep the tax ante up to pay for those jobs.

While I was stopped at a traffic light yesterday, I was greeted with this sign on the back of a metro bus. It is nice to know the government spends our money advertising free food to tax us more so other people don’t have to work.

I looked up the phone and it is for the New York State office for the WIC program. Luckily, the following statement was included on the WIC website:

WIC is not an entitlement program as Congress does not set aside funds to allow every eligible individual to participate in the program. WIC is a Federal grant program for which Congress authorizes a specific amount of funds each year for the program. WIC is

• administered at the Federal level by FNS
• administered by 90 WIC state agencies, through approximately 46,000 authorized retailers.
• WIC operates through 2,000 local agencies in 10,000 clinic sites, in 50 State health departments, 34 Indian Tribal Organizations, the District of Columbia, and five territories (Northern Mariana, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands).

Not only do we subsidize the hell out of public transit, we must pay for advertising on the subsidized transit to ensure that we are paying enough money for the government to hand out free food.

The sign on the bus refers to an additional program under WIC called the Summer Food Service Program.

Welcome to the Summer Food Service Program! SFSP is the single largest Federal resource available for local sponsors who want to combine a feeding program with a summer activity program. Children in your community do not need to go hungry this summer. During the school year, nutritious meals are available through the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs. But those programs end when school ends for the summer. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Summer Food Service Program helps fill the hunger gap.

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