From political cartoonist Ted Rall, I learn that 15% of Americans are on food stamps and of those, 40% are employed.

It is interesting how people react to such statistics. My reaction was that it showed that there are a large number of poor people in the US (about 45 million) and that employers are paying a lot of workers (about 18 million) far too little.

But I am well aware that there will be others for whom this same statistics will send the message that the government is far too generous with food stamps and should cut back.