I beg to differ. Able-bodies people who refuse to work SHOULD go hungry.
Sheesh. You must be a RACIST. /heavy sarc
Watch the Parasite Class start squealing.
This is a winner for a Conservative not willing to back down.
Nutritional ASSISTANCE with certain NECESSITIES.
Make LIBERALS defend Lobster, King Crab Legs, Filet Mignon, and other foods that WORKING FOLKS only by for special occasions.
Better have a veto-proof majority ready or like any other conservative populist ideas, watch them go down in committees/flames!
3/4 of them are working on the side off the books and collecting all kinds of bennies.
The mommy with the three kids gets all kinds of assistance courtesy of the taxpayer and the baby daddy stands off to the side peeling off the cash from his off the books job for stuff that isn’t covered.
RACIST!!!!!
My guess is this will die in some committee after retailers start raising a stink over the cost and hassle of flagging all of those SKU’s.
Food stamps are just a means for the Democrats to buy votes.
Let’s say you want to lease a new Cadillac. You just aren’t making enough money to afford a $400 a month lease payment.
You could work overtime, but that’s more work. You could get a second job, but that’s also more work. You could cut $400 worth of expenses. And give up cable and choom? Nope.
Get food stamps. Then take that $400 a month out of what you used to be paying for groceries, and get that Cadillac!
Happy days are here again!
Its an urban legend.
What I find funny and offensive is some conservatives becoming the food police.
This is what they usually are up in arms at Michelle Obama about.
But they’re self-righteous in dictating to poor people what they should eat.
Hey, those are the FIRST items Battin should keep off HIS family’s table.
Limit the “take” to beans, rice, cheese, peanut butter and milk. Bread was purposefully left off.
I’d rather see SNAP recipients have to pass a drug test to get assistance.
A plan like this won’t work because a recipient can always go to the Quick Mart and get a carton of cigarettes that is rang into the cash register as rice and beans. They can also buy Tide detergent and sell it on the street for $.50 on the dollar and buy meth with the $.50.
I feel the urge to resurrect my “kibble” idea...
Eliminate food stamps/EBT/whatever altogether. Instead, produce a generic shelf-stable food (i.e., “kibble”). Possibly with a small, limited variety of formulations to cover the vast majority of dietary needs.
The kibble would simply be free. Distributed by the government with some kind of deal/subsidy to grocery stores to stock it (the subsidy would cover sales losses from reduced available floor and stockroom space plus the labor to keep it stocked). Anyone could take what they need, limited only to prevent hoarding in the case of actual or projected shortages (such as before a major storm).
Now, as much as I despise the idea of anyone having this level of reliance on the government, the kibble concept falls pretty much into a “least harm” category. It’s not means-tested, so it’s a benefit available to anyone and everyone, not just those who are in the “system”. It provides only a rudimentary subsistence level benefit; hopefully the prospect of being able to do better than kibble will encourage people to move from a handout-taker to a producer. It eliminates fraud, since you can’t trade kibble for anything of value, since it’s already free to everyone. And it’s likely cheaper in the long run.
I don't care what they have in their carts. I don't want to freakin pay for it anymore. I'm not going to pay for some lazy bum to sit around eating bread and eggs any more than I want to pay for some lazy bum to sit around eating crab legs and steaks. The idea that Food Stamps are OK if you limit them to basic foods is wrong-headed. We need to drastically cut back on eligibility for Food Stamps, period.
It’s true their carts are overflowing. I thought this was a “federal” program?
The States should say foodstamps can only purchase those items Michelle O allows the children to eat in public school.
There. Done.
You’re against abortion and against feeding the poor. One would stop the other, the other guarantees continued mouths to feed. Mandatory sterilization would end it totally.
Reminds me of the classic when Archie Bunker asks Lionel Jefferson where they got the money to start their dry cleaning biz. “We saved our welfare checks” he said.
No one should have their labor stolen from them by the government to give to another to buy votes, either. Nothing in the US Constitution allows for welfare.