I think the whole giveaway system should be abolished and leave the job of helping the poor to churches where it belongs.
However, since that isn’t likely to happen, an accommodation would be to have the EBT cards restricted to what could be bought with them. Do it like WIC.
Allow only real food, meat, dairy, fruits, veggies, pasta, rice, bread, PB&J.
No snack food, no junk food, no soda, no juice, no energy drinks, no candy no packaged cookies or pastries, , no alcohol, not even frozen convenience foods like pizza and baked goods.. Only frozen fruit and veggies.
If they don’t like the restrictions, they can get off their lazy butts and get a job to actually pay for the food themselves. Then they can buy what they want.
Every time I get behind a WIC person, I just change lanes. They take like 15 to 20 minutes for bread or milk or eggs.
The EBT cards are programmed exactly like that.
Agree. But that means the church is going to have to step it up.