A reminder - this is why we have a Food Stamp Program:

http://billmoyers.com/content/what-inspired-robert-f-kennedys-fight-against-hunger/


"In nearly every place, especially rural communities, where we found a severe unwillingness to help the poor, we also found, and not always because of ethnic differences, a pocket of feudalism in America: a local power structure committed to perpetuating itself at all costs and unwilling to countenance the slightest improvement in the lives of the excluded, for fear they would gain the confidence and the wherewithal to overturn the status quo at the ballot box. Elected officials, judges, police officers and sheriffs, and local bankers and business people were always ready to use any tool necessary to quash dissidence whenever it appeared. "

http://www.rfkineky.org/project/1968-tour.htm