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bobemac asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 9 years ago

Is this ironic, or what?

A lesson in irony...

The Food Stamp Program, administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is actually proud of the fact it is distributing the greatest amount of free meals and food stamps ever.

Meanwhile, the National Park Service, administered

by the U.Ss Department of the Interior, asks us to "Please Do Not Feed the Animals."

Their stated reason for the policy is because the animals will grow dependent on handouts and will not learn to take care of themselves.

This ends todays lesson...

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    Not exactly "ironic"....going by the strict definition of the word.

    But it is pretty darn amusing, nevertheless.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    It mis very ironic; but the do not feed the animals is the free food stamps given to the drug addicts and the alcoholic addicts who are too lazy to work and the government helps them to live off of a meager earning of $600.00 per month along with all of the otherFREE subsidies and they think because they do not have to work month after month and year after year, that it is the obligation for the working class to feed them.-The money do mnot go to the household( family, children,assessories)

    The money goes right to the neighborhood drug dealer, the pawn shop owner, and the liquor store owners- we pay for their addiction.

    Source(s): Economics
  • ?
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    Yep. Also, south of Sarasota, FL, there's a dolphin named "Mooch" who has been approaching boats in the Intracoastal Waterway for handouts for decades. They passed an ordinance making feeding him illegal after he started teaching his offspring to do the same thing.

  • arndt
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

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  • ?
    Lv 5
    9 years ago

    Not ironic. With food stamps you can pick which foods you want, you get options and still need to go search for your food. Bears don't get to chose if you give them tacos.

  • Amanda
    Lv 4
    9 years ago

    Not necessarily an irony but more like a contradiction. or hypocritical?

  • People (who somehow are different from you) are like wild animals.

    Yes, lesson learned. You are a bigot.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Haha, agreed.

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