One of the central tenets of President Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ)'s "War on Poverty," declared on January 8, 1964 in his State of the Union speech, was that "[w]e must distribute more food to the needy through a broader food stamp program."  Sargent Shriver, in 1964, after being charged by LBJ to implement and administrate the "War on Poverty," said: The simplest description of the War on Poverty is that it is a means of making life available for any and all pursuers.  It does not try to make men good -- because that is moralizing.  It does not try to give men what they want -- because that is catering.  It does not try to give men false hopes -- because that is deception.  Instead, the War on Poverty tries only to create the conditions by which the good life can be lived -- and that is humanism. Where are we today?  In its war on poverty, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), who oversees the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP,...(Read Full Post)