Taxpayers fund govt. agency advertisements

by CalWatchdog Staff | December 21, 2012 9:39 am

Dec. 21, 2012

By Katy Grimes

The state of California is pushing welfare and food stamps very hard. They constantly advertise on the radio and television, and must have a huge public relations budget… paid for courtesy of taxpayers.

Here’s one ad for the “Women, infants and children” program:

 

Welcome to the WIC Show!
The show about WIC, for WIC and by WIC!

On our channel you’ll find five half-hour episodes made up of different segments that will interest everyone, especially parents of young children and pregnant women. 

The shows are designed to reinforce California’s Women, Infants and Children (WIC) education programs, highlight WIC service while at the same time entertain WIC clients.

Once you are in these programs, you get hooked into other programs: county health care, housing, school, daycare. Eventually, the government runs everything in the lives of those on government assistance. It’s no wonder President barack Obama got reelected.

CalFresh

The WIC ad says, “the food program is not a welfare program,” but you have a state case worker.

We can’t even call welfare what it is.

Food-stamp benefits usage is at an all time high. 46 million Americans are on welfare and use food stamps. One-third of all welfare recipients are in California.

The name of the California welfare food stamp program was changed to “CalFresh,” to take the stigma out of using welfare benefits. Recipients are given a debit card so they look like every other shopper when purchasing their items.

In Los Angeles County, more than one million people are signed up for the food stamp and welfare benefits, ranging from $200 to $1,500 a month.

In 2011, the federal Department of Food and Agriculture went all out on a national media awareness program[1]. Here is a schedule of media buys in just L.A. County.[2]

This was done because in some areas, welfare agencies believed that communities were “under served.” In Sacramento County, the Board of Supervisors even got involve[3]d, allowing the Sacramento Hunger Coalition[4] to drive a campaign to expand the number of recipients.

“The Sacramento Hunger Coalition[4] was founded in 1989 and now resides as a project of the Sacramento Housing Alliance’s Coalition on Regional Equity (CORE)’s food justice work,” the website says.

What a clever way to expand government. But welfare has become a giant ponzi scheme.

Even more interesting, is the list of publications below from the Sacramento Hunger Coalition… the links go nowhere. But this was what the entire hunger in Sacramento campaign was based on.

Hunger Hits Home 2012: Understanding & Combating Hunger in Sacramento County[5]

A Primer on the Restaurant Meals Program in California: Preventing Hunger Among the Elderly, Disabled & Homeless in the Golden State[6]

Homeless Nutrition Education Toolkit: A Resource for Nutrition Educators and Emergency Food Providers[7]

Hunger and Homelessness in Sacramento: 2010 Hunger & Food Insecurity Report[8]

I finally found one of the reports on hunger [9]in Sacramento – I hope no one got paid to produce this[10].

Other government advertising

I hear government paid radio ads for bullying, FEMA, flood insurance,  Homeland security disaster preparedness,  the CA Earthquake Authority insurance, and ads about housing discrimination[11], paid for by the federal Housing and Urban Development department.

What a scam, all paid for by taxpayers.

 

Endnotes:
  1. national media awareness program: http://dpss.lacounty.gov/dpss/calfresh/pdf/CalFresh_Awareness_Month_Calendar.pdf
  2. Here is a schedule of media buys in just L.A. County.: http://dpss.lacounty.gov/dpss/calfresh/pdf/CalFresh_Awareness_Month_Calendar.pdf
  3. Board of Supervisors even got involve: http://www.agendanet.saccounty.net/sirepub/cache/2/w5fbaqzsxfjbh43y1d3veugm/580121712212012085640765.PDF
  4. Sacramento Hunger Coalition: http://www.sachousingalliance.org/programs/sacramento-hunger-coalition/
  5. Hunger Hits Home 2012: Understanding & Combating Hunger in Sacramento County: http://sachousingalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Hunger-Hits-Home-Report-FINAL.pdf
  6. A Primer on the Restaurant Meals Program in California: Preventing Hunger Among the Elderly, Disabled & Homeless in the Golden State: http://sachousingalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/RestaurantMealsProgramFinal1.pdf
  7. Homeless Nutrition Education Toolkit: A Resource for Nutrition Educators and Emergency Food Providers: http://sachousingalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Homeless-Nutrition-Education-Toolkit-FINAL1.pdf
  8. Hunger and Homelessness in Sacramento: 2010 Hunger & Food Insecurity Report: http://sachousingalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/2010-Homeless-Hunger-Report-FINAL.pdf
  9. one of the reports on hunger : http://www.foodsystemcollaborative.org/upload/4961sacramento%20hunger%20coalition%20completes%20new%20report%20on.pdf
  10. this: http://www.foodsystemcollaborative.org/upload/4961sacramento%20hunger%20coalition%20completes%20new%20report%20on.pdf
  11. discrimination: http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/documents/huddoc?id=DOC_12150.pdf

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