With food prices rising, and I expect them to get a lot higher this winter, I think we will see more people becoming food stamp recipients in the coming months. Before and after the election, that is. No matter who wins, I feel that we lose.

Providing food for people who need it is not a bad thing. It all depends on how the economy can produce enough to pay for it. If more people are getting food stamps it means two things:
1) More people are unable to buy enough food on their own in the open market
2) The economy does not have enough jobs which pay a wage high enough to equal the needed capital a person needs to buy basic necessities on the open market.

This is a bad situation indeed. It is clear that the wage of common workers is too low to match the needs of the profit margin in the sale of goods on the open market. There is also a lack of jobs so people cannot even pay taxes to raise the revenue the government needs to feed them. The situation is more and more messy by the month. The problem of jobs, low wages and needs of the open market to maintain profit margins is something the GOP and libertarians are going to have to bend on.
They complain that the economy is bad due to Obama but do not want the government to do anything to scientifically correct the problem. The contractions of capitalism have become so clear in recent years that I am surprised by both Obama the DNP and the GOP. Everyone in America, from the top to the very bottom, are going to have to pull together in order to prevent people from starving and increase economic production.