SNAP dependence makes taxpayers a personal grocery fund



While over 40 million Americans rely on SNAP benefits to buy their groceries, the government shutdown has left them empty-handed — and BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey doesn’t think it's a bad thing.

Especially considering the money that comes from the government does not actually come from the government, but from the millions of taxpayers who go to work every single day.

In one CBS interview, a SNAP recipient named Erin Annis told the interviewer that she needs SNAP in order to live independently, without requiring the assistance of her family.

“Having those resources, what does it mean to you and for your life?” the CBS interviewer asks.


“Everything. It means everything to me. I don’t know what I would do except have to rely on my family, and I don’t want to do that right now. There’ll be a time when I’ll probably have to live with one of my sons. But for now, I want to be independent; I want to be on my own,” Annis answers.

“Having these resources has allowed you to be independent?” the interviewer asks.

“Yes, it’s allowing me to be independent,” Annis answers.

“It’s like people forget where this money comes from. You’re not actually independent. You are completely dependent on the government. And it’s not on the government. I mean, the government doesn’t have its own money. The government has money from us,” BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey says.

“And so you have people who are willing to sacrifice, who are trying to make ends meet, who are trying to provide for their families themselves who are paying for this woman to live quote-unquote ‘independently,’ to buy her groceries,” she continues.

“Our tax dollars are taken away from us in a compulsory way, like we have to — we will go to jail if we don’t pay our taxes. So the government is forcing the money that we earned out of our hands and is forcibly giving it to someone else who could rely on family to buy her groceries,” she explains.

“That’s not ethical. That’s not moral,” she adds.

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Biden plans to fund international 'independent media' using tax dollars



President Joe Biden announced Thursday that the U.S. would provide funding for media outlets around the world in an effort to globally support free speech.

Biden announced his plan to fund journalism as part of the Presidential Initiative for Democratic Renewal while addressing world leaders at the International Summit for Democracy.

"A free and independent media — it’s the bedrock of democracy. It’s how publics stay informed and how governments are held accountable," Biden told world leaders in his opening remarks.

The White House released a fact sheet with an overview of Biden's initiative. The administration's goals include supporting free and independent media, fighting corruption, bolstering democratic reformers, advancing technology for democracy, and defending free and fair elections and political processes.

Biden's initiative would direct USAID to give up to $30 million to the International Fund for Public Interest Media, a new multi-donor fund that seeks to "enhance the independence, development, and sustainability of independent media, especially in resource-poor and fragile settings." USAID will also provide an additional $9 million to support a global defamation defense fund that will provide liability coverage to journalists and the companies that employ them. The defamation defense fund would "guard the essential work of journalism from spurious legal claims aiming to silence legitimate work," according to the White House.

In addition, the State Department will spend $3.5 million to create a "journalism protection platform" that will provide at-risk journalists with "with digital and physical security training, psychosocial care, legal aid" and provide additional forms of assistance to journalists in need.

Biden promised world leaders to commit "critical seed money" to the International Fund for Public Interest Media as part of America's commitment to "sustain independent media around the world," Fox News reported.

IFPIM is a new initiative from Luminate Group, a global philanthropic organization that works to "empower people and institutions to build a fair society" by "supporting for-profit and non-profit organizations that impact in the areas of Civic Empowerment, Data & Digital Rights, Financial Transparency, and Independent Media," according to the fund's website.

When asked about the intended goal of IFPIM, a senior official from the Biden ministration told Fox News that the new initiative would "operate by supporting independent media — including those led by and giving voice to women and other marginalized groups."

Luminate Group was founded in 2018 by the Omidyar Group, which was established by the founder of eBay, Pierre Omidyar, and his wife.

Luminate Group has supported 348 organizations in 17 countries with over $414 million in funding since the group's founding, according to their website.

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Andrew Cuomo's Awakening: Mainstream Media on the Case! | Ep 219