“Never mind that few can afford filet mignon on a less-than-$7/day food-stamp allotment; they’re more likely to be buying chuck steak or canned tuna.”
If that is true, then this law isn’t an issue and nobody should be complaining.
Of course it’s not true, because we all know that the welfare system is rife with fraudsters and criminals who do indeed buy this stuff with their EBT cards. We know this because we see them in the checkout line at the grocery store every week!
Its human nature to judge others.
There is welfare for the well-off who don’t need it.
No one is eager to abolish it.
Why? Because of PACs and K Street lobbyists on hand to protect it.
The poor have no such advocate.
From the beginning of our nation, it was traditionally Christian churches that administered charity and assistance to the poor and the needy. This act fulfilled God's will and commandments, and in the process, the Gospel message was spread to those who needed to hear it.
I have worked in some of the worst urban neighborhoods, distributing food though our church. We did it all on a shoestring budget and with food donations, and fed hundreds of people in a few hours.
Meanwhile, hundreds of millions of dollars in these same cities disappear every year by the liberals who run them, and what "assistance" they pass on to the poor is either nonexistent or negligible.