” I estimate that half of the people using food stamps drove brand new cars, usually Cadillacs.”
I also worked in a grocery store and that happened repeatdly to me. They’d pay with stamps, and I’d load their groceries into a new car.
I think welfare is a subsidy to car companies, luxury goods suppliers and drug dealers.
Food stamps has a VERY BIG LOBBY supporting it. It is the big food companies.
In a past career, my secretary and the welfare secretary shared the reception window. The welfare secretary got tired of their recipients hollering at her because they couldn’t buy milk for their kids but while waiting, they’d brag to their friends about getting their hair and nails done and a new outfit to go out on the weekend. Anyway, the welfare secretary crunched the numbers to prove they were getting more freebies than her working 40 hrs/wk and quit her job right then.