I have absolutely nothing against feeding the hungry at my expense. But I do have problem when I see people at the cash register paying with food stamps and have i-phones. Something is out of whack. Since when expensive cell phones became a necessity?
Another problem that I have with food stamps/feeding the “poor” is this: over the past several years, the schools (with federal tax money) have gone from giving reduced-cost lunches to the “poor” to now giving free breakfasts, lunches, and sometimes dinners to the “poor”, and sending food home with them on weekends. Plus having programs the whole family can attend in the summer for free meals. But nothing has been done to reduce the amount of food stamps that these same people get. So the taxpayers are feeding these people sometimes two and three times per meal. No wonder obesity is such a problem. And so many of them have those fancy custom manicures....
I generally agree.
However it’s not always what it looks like. There are a lot of people who fell on hard times who already had expensive i-phones.
I think that was part of the idea of them removing the asset criteria and leaving only the income criteria. A family with a very nice home, loses their jobs, and quickly gets overextended and needs help just to put food on the table. They didn’t want people having to sell the family home in the middle of a financial crisis.
However, I think if they have non-assets above x, help should be structured as a loan, not a hand out. And if they have liquid assets above y, they shouldn’t be getting food stamps regardless of current income.
Maybe you should read this:
http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2012/02/13/an-open-challenge-to-supporters-of-rick-santorum/
AND THEN WATCH THIS!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJblJfgXBgw&feature=youtu.be