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Originally Posted by Guest
You post says "More than 43 percent of all FOOD STAMPS are given to illegals". Then PolitiFact talks about the number of RECIPIENTS. If one guy gets $100 worth of food stamps and another get $200... wouldn't that mean that 50% of the recipients are receiving 66% of the stamps?
How about this... even 1% is too much.
Oh... wait... this must be some of that "hater propaganda."
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I also noted that discrepancy in the numbers. However I think Politifact was saying that it would be unreasonable to assume that all 11 million illegals are receiving food stamps, and even if they were, they would each have to be receiving an astonishingly large amount to make the 43% number believable.
Here are some numbers I got from the GAO. About 46 million people a month get food stamps. The average amount each receives is about $125.
10.3% are Hispanic. (about 4.75 million) Let's unrealistically assume that all 4.75 million of those Hispanics are illegal. They would each have to collect $520 a month ($400 above average) in food stamps for them to account for 43% of the total. That's probably why the 43% number is considered laughably ridiculous.
But, since you would be dissatisfied with even 1% waste, I can see that this won't placate you. Please let me know when you find ANY program, public or private, that can achieve 100% efficiency.