FUCK YOU - White Castle RULES!
here's a pretty good description of some of them, courtesy of Richard Dawkins: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-faith/post/attention-governor-perry-evolution-is-a-fact/2011/08/23/gIQAuIFUYJ_blog.html
Every dollar put into the economy via food stamps yields a payoff of a little more than $1.60. unemployment payments yield just about the same.
that's why cutting either program during a period of slow economic growth, let alone in a downturn, is extremely damaging to the economy as a whole.