Does anyone really believe that this nation isn't headed for destruction? How does an Conservative governor allow this to happen in his state? How do other Conservatives explain this as a good thing?

Maybe there isn't an explanation to this grab for the free stuff - maybe this is what the majority of the population believes is the right thing to do. It would seem so given that a majority voted for more free stuff last November.

The real problem that I see popping up in the near future is, what will we do when the "makers" decide to stop 'making' and start 'taking' like everyone else? Who will be left to pay for all the free stuff?

 Moocher Nation: Paid Food Stamp Recruiters
 
Via Ben Domenech, your head-banging story of the day: the Obama Administration’s program to recruit folks onto food stamps. But don’t miss the story of the 60-year-old man at the end. 

"Why are there 47 million people on food stamps – and why have those numbers continued to climb even after the economic downturn? Because states have hired hundreds of recruiters to sign people up."
   
"[I]t is Nerios’s job to enroll at least 150 seniors for food stamps each month, a quota she usually exceeds. Alleviate hunger, lessen poverty: These are the primary goals of her work. But the job also has a second and more controversial purpose for cash-strapped Florida, where increasing food-stamp enrollment has become a means of economic growth, bringing almost $6 billion each year into the state. The money helps to sustain communities, grocery stores and food producers. It also adds to rising federal entitlement spending and the U.S. debt... 

A decade ago, only about half of eligible Americans chose to sign up for food stamps. Now that number is 75 percent. Rhode Island hosts SNAP-themed bingo games for the elderly. Alabama hands out fliers that read: "Be a patriot. Bring your food stamp money home." Three states in the Midwest throw food-stamp parties where new recipients sign up en masse." 

"The story of one 60 year old man wrestling against going on food stamps is at the center of the piece:" 

"Only later, alone with Celeste, had he said what he really thought: "A damn sky dive. That’s our life. How does anyone fall this far, this fast?" 

"And now SNAP brochures were next to him on the table — one more step down, he thought, reading over the bold type on the brochure. "Applying is easy." "Eat right!" "Every $5 in SNAP generates $9.20 for the local economy." … 

"Sir, can I help?" Nerios asked. She brought over some food. She gave him her business card and a few brochures about SNAP. "I don’t want to be another person depending on the government," he said. "How about being another person getting the help you deserve?" she said… "Makers and takers," 

Lonnie had told the kids then, explaining that the world divided into two categories. The Briglias were makers… 

He wondered: Sixty years old now, and who was he? A maker? A taker? 

"I’m not ready to sign up for this yet," he said. 

"Soon we might have to," she said. 

He tucked Nerios’s business card into his back pocket. 

"I know," he said. "I’m keeping it."

No word yet on whether the paid recruiters will be affected by the sequester. Somehow we think not.