Approximately 42 million Americans are receiving food stamps. School districts are beginning to bus students to school over the summer to get breakfast and lunch. Taxpayer charity can’t throw up shelters and low-income housing fast enough to meet the enormous growth in homelessness.
Nobody minds helping someone temporarily in need, but this is ridiculous. These problems have become institutionalized. More dependent clients are added every year, many becoming permanent partakers of government housing and food services. Are we steadily but quietly turning our state and country into a socialist paradise where no one is expected to be responsible for themselves?
Is there any other way to look at a growing population that expects someone else to house and feed their families? Many economists say it is the infusion of massive government dollars that is driving the inflation that makes basic necessities unaffordable. In addition, we have millions of illegal migrants pouring over our unsecured southern border. They compete for jobs and resources.
If elected to Congress, Joe Kent would vote to stop the deficit spending that funds the open-border policies and the billions spent on overseas wars. He would vote for policies that put American citizens first and save our constitutional republic.
