They do realize that 42 million recipients stimulate the economy with their food stamp purchases, and the average recipient receives 162 per individual on their application. So a family of 4 lives off 500 a month... Because the more dependents the less money for them .. because our government is really good at math and calculating benefits in a fairly distributed manner... But the food stamp situation along with the federal worker pay stop is putting the economy in a situation where consumption is slowed down, when it is resolved, the economy will have consumer spending ramped up temporarily to catch up for the previous month of workers having no paychecks, and food stamps being talked up for delayed payments. The economy will look like it had a boom, and this is just another crazy picture of how the puppets try to play master over the economic reality that it's dug itself in trillions of debt and 29 generations from now still won't be out of it.