The same people who get food stamps are the same ones whose kids are fed at school for free. And some schools send home backpacks full of food for the weekend.
If the schools now send food home with kids, then why do we double dip and give them food stamps too?
Just anecdotal evidence, some of these people with food stamps drive some nice cars, in addition to having bling and cell phones.
If subsidizing food for people just allows them to spend the money they have on other stuff, is that really a good expenditure of public funds?
We don’t want people to go hungry, but we also shouldn’t be enabling them not to work or enabling them to have a better living standard than those who do work for a living.
At the food bank, you’ll often see those “dropping off” have much older/humbler cars than those “picking up”.
“We don’t want people to go hungry, but we also shouldn’t be enabling them not to work or enabling them to have a better living standard than those who do work for a living.”
We’ve lost our way. There was a time when being on public assistance wasn’t a good thing. People felt embarrassed to be in that situation. And public assistance wasn’t meant as a way of life, it was meant as a means to avoid starvation until you could get back on your feet.
Now, people view welfare as “getting theirs”. And there are plenty of people who live good lives, take nice vacations, drive nice cars, live in good homes, and are on welfare.
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