Food Stamps and Amnesty: What Would Martin Luther King Say?

“If it falls to your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music … Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well.”  – Martin Luther King

What would Rev. Martin Luther King say to the food stamp and amnesty government which operates with the assumption that there are some jobs that Americans won’t do? People used to complain that there were 46 million people without health care coverage. (That number was magically dropped to 30 million and even lower when selling the concept of amnesty for illegal immigrants). Now there are a record breaking 47 million Americans on food stamps.

There are also a record breaking number of Americans no longer in the labor force and the participation RATE is at a 34 year low.