Yeah, agree with you wholeheartedly. I’m really not sure what the solution is - the folks who care about food stamps are the folks who aren’t taking the help - many of them folks who need help.
There was a FReeper who had a good idea about that, I forget who it was. But the idea was to use the surplusses caused by farming subsidies to create a food that would be cheap, and would have the nutrients necessary for survival, but would be as tasteless as can be. Then, make that food readily available to anyone who wants it, whether they’re Warren Buffet or homeless on the streets. That way, the truly poor would be able to get enough to live on, but at the same time it wouldn’t make “poverty” so pleasant as to take away the incentives to get out of it.
Even if that food giveaway were abused it would still cost less than the food stamp program is now.