Posted on 03/08/2023 2:25:08 PM PST by eccentric
One of the major causes of "food insecurity" is that low income people often have problems with money management. This is well demonstrated by people using their EBT money on junk food when they first receive a deposit on their card and then having no money/credit left at the end of the month. The once a month delivery made sense when the stamps were sent though the mail, but now everything is down on a debit card. It seems that it would be simple to change the card to a weekly or even daily dispersal instead of once a month. After all, it is all on computers.
A war. That’s where we’re going.
Besides bureaucratic resistance, or resistance from lawmakers, it would be trivial to change it to weekly or even daily.
But I suspect people who can’t manage a monthly deposit won’t be able to manage a weekly one either. I don’t think the key factor here is “bad money management”, thought that probably contributes. The key is that until it’s YOUR money that you worked for, you don’t have the proper motivation to learn to manage it properly.
“This is well demonstrated by people using their EBT money on junk food when they first receive a deposit on their card and then having no money/credit left at the end of the month.”
I remember when you weren’t allowed to buy “junk food” and other items with food stamps. Like every other intelligent policy, that was changed because it was “racist”.
Apparently extremely - as it will be caged as “taking away benefits”...
I marveled years ago when I was trying to help a young couple that had mastered gaming the system. They knew very well what could and couldn’t be purchased with their EBT...
They bought lots of Valentine candy, for example... also energy drinks. You cannot buy liquor with EBT...buy you CAN buy jumbo bottles of Vanilla Extract! You cannot buy a hot rotisserie chicken from your local grocery store... but you can buy an entire box of Hershey Candy Bars...
Within a day or two of their EBT being reloaded - they would be back trying to get folks to buy them some food...
It is a system that is, I believe, set up to encourage and promote bad decisions and scamming the system (aka - taxpayers).
Then again - the fact that the system went to the “debit card” format - ostensibly to reduce the “social shame” of being on public benefits itself was a flawed idea. While there is no shame in needing help - LIVING on it forever ought to be a huge shame. EBT is supposed to be temporary and/or supplemental - not a way of life.
Yeah, instead of flour and beans, they buy pot and meth..
Want change it.? STOP GIVING AWAY FREE MONEY..!!!
But, that's just my opinion...
Math is racist
I know dozens of kids, at an Ivy League university, who are receiving food stamps. And that’s just the ones I know.
I bet the true amount on the campus is thousands - as an easy-buck scam like this spreads very quickly
They have little income (they are students after all), they apply, they receive $300+/month - no questions asked.
The system is totally corrupt. The amount of people who it truly helps and are needy, is probably tiny
They’re not children. Let them spend it as fit. Do we hear stories of end of month running out of food? I have seen that.
Well, as I got older and watched friends being able to do whatever they wanted. At the time, I wore corduroy pants and pumas while my friends were all wearing stone washed 501 jeans and Reebok high top sneakers. Very materialistic, but my intentions were different. As a fat kid, my thighs always rubbed together and I hated the "VPP! VPP! VPP!" sound they made when I walked. While friends would ask their parents for $$$ to go to McD's in high school, I was lucky to be able to buy a cheeseburger at school. Most times I went to school and stayed hungry all day, then I would eat when I got home.
Anyhow, all of this made me somewhat resentful of my mom for a time. I couldn't understand why she insisted on keeping us in poverty, just because she wanted to be home to raise her kids. Of course, now as an adult, I look back and understand her intentions, if not the best, she was doing the best she knew how. Growing up on state assistance also made something in me snap. I had NO interest in making my kids grow up the same way.
If nothing else, reducing the total dollar value available by making them weekly rather than monthly would stop some of the sbuses like buying luxury foods to trade for drugs.
Big food comapanies such as General Foods, Kraft, etc are big donors to politicians and they love the EBT giveaway.
how about going to any martin luther king jr. avenue/boulevard across our country and asking those inhabitants...
Why change something that works?
‘ How hard would it be to change this system? ’
It’s government. It will take forever and cost huge money and then be wrong. Heavens, what do think will happen.
Yep, unfortunately.
“They bought lots of Valentine candy, for example... also energy drinks. You cannot buy liquor with EBT...buy you CAN buy jumbo bottles of Vanilla Extract! You cannot buy a hot rotisserie chicken from your local grocery store... but you can buy an entire box of Hershey Candy Bars...”
An extremely rare ACCURATE FR comment on what can and can not be purchased using SNAP.
Only correction is energy drinks can only be purchased if they have fruit content ...
Honor the 10th Amendment and end federal funding of the program.
Confine EBT usage to rice and beans. Complete protein. They’ll get so sick of it the obesity problems will go away.
Fast food. Ok give them one day a week to eat out. Mondays. That way I can watch my MNF in peace while the cops are working overtime breaking up the fights at Popeye’s.
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