Entitlement. Backdoor reparations.
Why don’t they have their kids save some food from their free school breakfast, lunch, and dinner and bring it home?
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With any luck, the government will be shut down for at least an extra month and we’ll find out that the SNAP program is not actually needed.
Some things to keep in mind:
-Famines are always associated with severe reduction to food supply, never solely due to finances. As far as I know, there has never been a famine in the US.
-It doesn’t take a government to hand someone a sandwich. When people are truly in need, the public steps up. The only problem here are stupid states like CA that over-regulate food charities.
-How many SNAP accounts are for bona-fide needy? Given the state of voter rolls, I wonder how often accounts are screened. Along this line:
-—A lot of folks use payday loans and choke down the loss of 10% of their paycheck so as to deliberately not have a bank account where their assets can be discovered, causing a loss of benefits. The $ value of benefits exceed the 10% pay hit.
-—Foreign actors have been known to set up fraudulent accounts to get money out of the US in other areas like student loans, emergency loans, etc., why not here?
-—When someone enters the program, how often is their financial situation re-evaluated?. Take Maryland where even politicians have taken homestead exemptions on property tax when no longer qualified. This never happens on SNAP?
-—I wouldn’t be surprised if Letitia Jame’s niece is getting SNAP. All she has to do is claim she’s actually paying rent at her aunt’s house, even though she is not, and POOF - free fatness.
“The USDA’s SNAP program, which injected $99.8 billion into economies in FY 2024”
BS, the money was taken from us taxpayers. Redistribution of wealth is the only thing congress does well.
Anyone arrested for theft should have their benefits permanently cut off.
12% is FAR too many parasites.
Anyone caught stealing during the Schumer Shutdown should lose ALL taxpayer funded benefits permanently.
If you are physically able to steal, then you are too fit to be on welfare. You can work, even if you can’t find a job you can be an entrepreneur, and work for yourself washing windows or pulling weeds, you just choose not to.
Years ago, a single Walmart store voted to unionize. Walmart said “What store?” because they shut the store down overnight. No store, no union.
I predict that they will shut down any stores that see food riots. Maybe even permanently.
Is it possible we could get a racial demographic breakdown of the suspected thieves?
I don’t think it will be a real problem until late November. SNAP folks can dip into their savings for two or three weeks. /S
SNAP needs to be ended.
Where’s DOGE at when you need them ?
It would never occur to them to go to Walmart and get a job.
This is a big negative for the Trump administration. Right or wrong, the media will paint this as a purely evil thing for Republicans to do to the poor and the left is more than willing to play politics with hunger.
EBT shouldn't be used for junk foods
Ahem … do this in my neighborhood and looters will be shot on site.
Democrats idea of helping the little guy with DEMOCRACY.