It used to be that way back in the food stamps days. But then it changed.
They should also immediately discontinue EBT card acceptance at fast food joints.
Hey if food stamps won’t get you beer what’re they good for?
“We really need to look at where that money is going, what it’s being spent”
An investigation into food stamp fraud could yield big savings. There’s a black market in food stamps traded for booze and drugs.
This is an example showing how “all they want is control” is a bad argument in discussing public policy.
There is always “control” in a civil society. It is called, for starters, “self-control,” and that is an essential aim of the most basic legislation.
We can argue about the manner and degree of control and who wields power to instill, monitor, and administer consequences, but word “control” is just a blunt semantic cudgel that only instills both misunderstanding and lack of discernment, and then street fights.
Will we ever take food out of a hungry child’s mouth? Of course not, this is the United States of America
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I would not be that sure.
If we keep spending like drunken sailors, US will eventually go bankrupt.
Then, the hungry children will have nothing!
Maybe people of Uganda will chip in for US hungry children. 😩
I still do not quite understand the concept of taking my money to feed people who often hate me and my family. When I have grandkids I’d rather give it to.
I say limit the program to truly desperate people, like elderly, young children and disabled/sick. And if they commit serious crimes let them go.
And this was the first video hit I got…”deeegusting” and there are many like this:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1530766020372195
YES!
What a great idea! Thats how it used to be.
They can still buy that stuff—just not with the donations from taxpayers.
And maybe doing some public service work, while they look for an actual job. Exceptions would be those certified as physically disabled and cannot work.
Good. That’s the way it’s supposed to work and to encourage the bums to get off the damn food stamps so they can buy things they want with their own money.
SNAP/EBT is causing inflation. Also, immediately eliminate any of this assistance for illegal immigrants.
So, which politician or media personality will declare this idea to be racist?
And which politician or media personality will be the first to call it sexist?
And which politician or media personality will call it “a threat to our Democracy”?
Additionally, Federal Benefits for maximum of 2 years, with verification of community service OR seeking employment, required.
If he can get this through AND demolish the Dept. of Education there will be no doubt in my mind that he’s going to be one of the greatest.
Lots of fraud in food stamps, EBT cards and welfare period. There’s tons of scams.
End welfare and that problem is solved.
Something needs to be done about all these huge, sloppy, messy people.
I saw someone in the checkout line ahead of me the other day using SNAP to pay for about $50 worth of groceries as they were buying two $65 bottles of Tequila for cash. They obviously didn’t really need the SNAP.
I lived in SW DC for a year. It was a socioeconomic mix. Go a few blocks in a certain direction and you were in the hood. There was a Safeway grocery store a few blocks away I shopped at.
More than once, I was at the checkout behind someone who was using an EBT card, then pulling out a wad of cash to pay for beer, sometimes bottles of wine.
It sure doesn’t help them to be using food stamps to PIG OUT on pizza and Mexican food at fast food joints. As Dinesh D’Souza quoted His friend as saying, he loves America because even THE POOR PEOPLE ARE FAT.