Posted on 01/23/2023 12:05:19 PM PST by EBH
Exactly, you want to know why people on SNAP are fat...
1) The SNAP allocations are fairly generous ($939/month for family of 4), and
2) If people get most of their basics from food banks, that leave a lot of SNAP money for steak and stuff
My first impression was to be able to provide for yourself through your own labors, and then you can buy whatever you want. Seems like the easier path.
There you go tryimg to make sense again.
Caught you doing that on Fakebook too.
This is idiotic. Ban sodas and ice cream, but not meat and fish.
I’d rather Iowa quit demanding the rest of the country run their cars on corn syrup.
We support a local version of Can Do!
Once a month, we fill up a provided sturdy cloth bag with canned food. A group of church people pick up the filled bags and leave an empty one with suggestions re the next donated can goods monthly collection.
Zero spoilage and as you posted, food can be eaten right from the cans if one is hungry and has no kitchen.
It’s got beans, rice, cheese, milk, peanut butter, tuna and salmon for proteins.
Vegetables, breads, tortillas, cereals, pasta, baby food meat, formula and so much more.
You can certainly live on it:
It was a win for the trash can manufacturers though. I taught during that time & the kids rejected it. I don’t blame them either. Most kids are not going to eat whole wheat pasta.
It was a win for the trash can manufacturers though. I taught during that time & the kids rejected it. I don’t blame them either. Most kids are not going to eat whole wheat pasta.
If you’re going to give them beans, they should at least be able to purchase ham hocks!
My family was considered well off in the 60’s, but my parents were born before the depression, so we ate beans, rice, potatoes, and basic meat cuts (fried pork chops, fried round steak, fried chicken, and fried rabbit) and the best homemade bread. Nothing fancy for us.
After my dad died, mom would cook these elaborate meals, and I was like why she didn’t do this when I was kid going up!
“I understand the goal, but is this the right way to go about this?”
The military will be force fed vegan and beetle burgers anyday now. Social experimental test guinea pigs since the Clintons.
“There should be no SNAP program.
If people need help, it should be given “in kind”, not as “cash”.
If someone needs food, you give them the actual staples. Rice, beans, hamburger, chicken, vegetables. You do NOT give them money.”
They don’t like no Gov’t cheeze...
Frankly, it is annoying standing in line behind the welfare shoppers, seeing the most expensive meat cuts, seafood, etc. in their carts.
I had to grin while reading what you posted:
After our 2 sons were born, my wife, an Rn didn’t work again as a nurse until the youngest son started the 4th grade.
She wanted to treat the whole family with her first back to work pay check, and we wanted live Maine lobster. I had to drive out of town to a store carrying the lobster. The whole family went, and she went in to buy our lobster.
I stayed in the car with our sons while she buying our special treat.
She came out with the lobster and was fuming mad. I asked her what was wrong. She told me to wait until the kids had eaten and were in bed.
At about 10 pm, she described the customer in front using the welfare card to buy the lobster as a typical welfare shopper, whose male friend drove up to the seafood store in his Cadillac and his shopper bought the lobster with her card in front of my wife. That was in the 1970’s.
The sheer laziness of women in general is a large factor.
This trait will only continue as long as they are allowed to benefit of the work of others.
Single women with children are not widows unless they were married and lost a spouse to death. NOT divorce. NOT even abandonment. I realize it sounds so harsh.
Children of single mothers are not orphans.
Once we started funding behavior not following the instructions of the Bible it was only a matter of time the sins would increase in quantity within a single generation.
Every single mother on welfare should have to supply DNA or the name of the father and it be verified by DNA so the father can then be funding the offspring.
Rape? Get the money and deny any and/all visitation as a result of the criminal act. Period. This would also apply to the rapist’s family members: NO ONE gets to visit the offspring created by the criminal act of rape.
No grey areas.
Back to Welfare Benefits: Back to basics...all the way back to basics....
I would imagine you shake your head at the Welfare Benefits and those who demand even more and more be supplied to them....
Good post, there are some thought-provoking truths you listed, some fresh focus.
You should keep working on this subject and keep posting your thoughts on it.
Years ago, I was doing some work on a Section 8 house. Their fat Cocker Spaniel’s dish was piled high with scrambled eggs and sausage, and he wasn’t touching it.
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