[upchuck]

Quote from the excerpt (highlighting mine):

"The goal of the SNAP program is to support families in need as they strive to attain self-sufficiency. SNAP was established as a temporary supplemental nutrition benefit guiding people to self-sufficiency and self-reliance, not a permanent way of life. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that SNAP participation will drop by about 1.3 million people each year over the next 10 years as the economy continues to strengthen."

You couldn't prove that by me as an intake interviewer at a local food bank. Virtually all the folks I interview are on food stamps. And an easy majority of them have been so for years. Lots of folks are very open in admitting they cheat on stamps, some even sharing their methods.

An interesting chart would show the numbers 1, 2, 3, etc. as the number of years on stamps across the top and the number of persons in thousands down the side. I suspect this chart would put a big dent in the propaganda about self-sufficiency and self-reliance.

The amount of fraud and abuse in the food stamp program is breathtaking.

[vladimir998]

Trump’s Fault!

[dragnet2]

Go Trump!

[txrefugee]

Take a look at the budget for the Agriculture Dept., where that Leftist LBJ hid the food stamp budget. The bulk of the USDA expenditures are welfare programs, such as food stamps and free school lunches.

[Army Air Corps]

The amount of fraud and abuse in the food stamp program is breathtaking.

I have known people who work at grocery stores, and they can tell you many stories about the lengths to which some people will go to defraud the Food Stamp programs.

[stars & stripes forever]

Will CONGRESS slash the surplus from the food stamp budget?

[Pride in the USA]

More winning!!!

[Opinionated Blowhard]

They increased by 15 million under Obama. Trump has a long way to go to get rid of Obama’s Socialism.

[spintreebob]

Jobs is the best welfare program possible.
Jobs is the best Healthcare program possible.

Repeal and replace...with jobs.

[shotgun]

My 19 year old, white, stepson was on food stamps when he crawled his sorry ass home after leaving 2 weeks after he graduated from HS 9 months earlier! I about stroked out when he told me that!

He’s currently getting 3 hots and a cot and some intense man training now courtesy of the United States Marine Corp in sunny San Diego!

[nutmeg]

More winning!

[bgill]

winning

[SamAdams76]

Even so, the fact we still have over 42 million people collecting food stamps is staggering. How did we ever get to such as state?

I've spent my entire adult life slogging off to work, paying my bills, and minding my own business. I would never even consider having somebody else put food on my table for me. I would feel so guilty sitting around the house benefiting from other people's work. But there are few who think like me, obviously.

This entitlement mindset is destroying us utterly.

I'm glad that Trump is chipping away at it but 42 million people on the dole in this country is still a huge problem and I don't know how we fix it. Once people have become accustomed to a life of leisure - provided by the sweat of others - it's hard to get them back into the labor pool.

[DungeonMaster]

“If anyone will not work then neither shall they eat”.