But even half guilty is not 100% guilty as presumed... Whole lot of folks make it easy to claim it should be eliminated because they have never actually been truly hungry for more than one hour because lunch happened to be late. They have absolutely no concept of what it is like to have nothing to eat for two or three days in a row.
The cure cannot be one size fits all slash and burn like everyone wants.
Yes. Thus the difficulty in changing in any meaningful way. As I recall, Congress added a chole expensive group of medical recipients to Medicare/Medicaid back in the 60s by covering kidney failure and transplantation/dialysis for all who need it because they could not bear that sick people were dying because they could not pay for their very expensive dialysis and transplants. And most of those added had not paid into Medicare in a meaningful amount yet in their lives to offset it. Hospitals used to have ethics boards just for deciding which patients were important enough in their communities to deserve getting dialysis or not on the one or two machines they had. Only one or two machines because dialysis was a big money loser until the Government forced Medicare to cover it for all. Now all get it including illegals.
Claim? It is right there online under each state’s SNAP site. A family of 4 in NC can earn up to $5,200/mo to be eligible for SNAP. A family of 4 in TX can earn up to $4,125. And they get free phones, free internet, discounts on utilities, etc. Yes, that is shown in black and white on the sites. Being on SNAP gets them eligible for income limited food banks that don’t allow that high of income from the regular working joe.
We’ve never seen that high of working income but we can pay our way on food, phone, internet and full utilities. Remember, SNAP is 70% of what those delusional fat cats in D.C. think is what it takes to feed kids. How about those 360 free breakfast and lunch school meals during the school year and the weekend boxes and the summer lunches that SNAP doesn’t count. So taxpayers end up paying double. That double doesn’t consider all the food banks and other charities.
The local welfare secretary crunched the numbers and promptly quit when she saw the clients were getting waaay more than she was working 40/hr. I’m not saying it should be totally eliminated but slashed and burned and slashed again isn’t going to hurt. There is a reason they have been selling their food stamps for 50 cents on the dollar for decades. If we can eat well on $3.75/day/person, then why are they getting THREE TIMES more just on SNAP alone?