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.
“How many SNAP accounts are for bona-fide needy?”
Last week, a government official on TV reported that people making $500K a year are getting food stamps. (And if Uncle Sam is aware of this, why hasn’t it been stopped?)