Define "improve"

Not finished reading yet, but "improving the food stamp program" seems to include:

more fresh fruit and veggies [good]
expand access for some folks [good]
take away access for some others [sigh... ]

Compassionate conservatism = gotta conserve that compassion because it's one of those finite commodities that we don't have very much of. These people should maybe go meditate on a mountaintop with some Buddhist monks somewhere. For, like, years.