That’s INSANE.
But honestly, giving away stamps for years and years and years is ALWAYS insane.
My dearly departed pop pass in 1980...but he had his first stroke 15 years earlier.
We were on food stamps and welfare for about the 2 years it took for mom to get a nursing degree and a job.
She told me she used to shot in the middle of the night so no one could see her using food stamps because she was so embarassed.
That’s a little extreme but imagine if they were only given out for a limited time and in Extremely needful situations...then we would all know that the person using them really must need them and it wouldn’t be embarassing to use them.
Not that anyone is embarassed anymore.
That generation is gone.
Mom was a nurse for 25 years and is 92.
I was 14 when pop died and she was was 50...she had already been a nurse for over 10 years.
She was/is tough.
Good for your mother.
Far to many people see it as a way of life.
Part of the problem is that the government policies are designed to KEEP them dependent on hand outs. You get temporary help because you really need it until you can get some work. But as soon as you get some work they immediately cut you off all financial assistance. This send you right back into the gutter and you can’t even afford to buy gas to get to work anymore. So you have to fall right back onto the system again.
The system would actually be more productive and save more taxpayer money in the long run if they didn’t cut them off right away, give them the extra for a couple months as booster to help them truly get ahead of the game and stay ahead of the game so that they don’t have to fall right back on the system again. It would actually be a wise investment up front that saves much more in the long run.
But see this is not the agenda. They really do not want folks financially independent, they want them dependent on the system so they can own them. This is what the infamous Cloward/Piven strategy is all about. It is a normal policy of Communism for the state to own the people by keeping them dependent on the state. Many policies are geared in that direction.
Another one is free medical. They will cover everything but dental unless it is an absolute life threatening situation such as fatal heart problems or gastrointestinal issues caused by bad teeth, it happens a lot... But if they did invest in dental up front it would make them healthier overall and prevent much more expensive health problems later. The dental is much much cheaper to pay for up front than the resulting severe issues that come from bad dental health later.
But the government never works on logic... It is all or none period, off or on. No common sense compromises that would actually save much more in the long run. So the main problem is government policy and how they handle the system incorrectly which causes a perpetual problem.
+1
But honestly, giving away stamps for years and years and years is ALWAYS insane.
My dearly departed pop pass in 1980...but he had his first stroke 15 years earlier.
We were on food stamps and welfare for about the 2 years it took for mom to get a nursing degree and a job.
She told me she used to shot in the middle of the night so no one could see her using food stamps because she was so embarassed.
That’s a little extreme but imagine if they were only given out for a limited time and in Extremely needful situations...then we would all know that the person using them really must need them and it wouldn’t be embarassing to use them.
Not that anyone is embarassed anymore.
That generation is gone.
Mom was a nurse for 25 years and is 92.
I was 14 when pop died and she was was 50...she had already been a nurse for over 10 years.
She was/is tough.
You\re right. That was the original purpose, to help people temporarily, like your parents. I don’t have a problem with that, and I’d venture to guess most people would agree. The problem is the program has been perverted to support lazy ne-er do wells and loafers for their entire lives.
i remember those days.
got food stamps in the 80’s to 92.. sucked to shop had to tear out the stamps out of the book. was so happy the day i slapped down a 100.00 bill to buy food.