Posted on 11/03/2025 3:31:46 AM PST by Adder
U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said that her agency has found massive fraud in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. It must be reformed, she added. Rollins said that the program gives food benefits to illegal aliens, and others abuse the system meant to feed hungry, low-income families. :snip:
“The Democrat Party has turned its back on working Americans and built its entire strategy around protecting illegal aliens. They know if the handouts stop, those illegals will go back home, and Democrats will lose 20+ seats after the next census," Rollins said. "There’s a new sheriff in town. @POTUS will not tolerate waste, fraud, or abuse while hardworking Americans go hungry.”
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Either way, the waste fraud and abuse goes far beyond giving benefits to illegals. People on the program barter and sell their benefits for cash. If they have that much extra, their benefits need to be cut. Be tough and do it already!
Neither illegal nor legal immigrants should be able to get SNAP benefits. If you can’t take care of yourself you shouldn’t have been allowed into the country.
What government funded program isn’t corrupt and loaded with fraud?
yes yes yes!
There should be a work requirement for government food. And if you refuse to work, you should be sterilized. Welfare is a generational cycle -- people grow up in families where the "family business" is collecting welfare. You need to break that cycle.
US Dept of Agriculture Secy Brooke Rollins:
<><>“The Democrat Party has turned its back on working Americans
<><>Dems built their entire strategy around protecting illegal aliens.
<><>They know if the handouts stop, those illegals will go back home,
<><>Democrats will lose 20+ seats after the next census,”
<><>There’s a new sheriff in town.
<><>Trump will not tolerate waste, fraud, or abuse while hardworking Americans go hungry.”
Overton News: “59% of those collecting food stamps from the US Govt and Taxpayers
are not even Americans. We didn’t know this before the govt shutdown started.”
<><>“There are 42 million people in this country that use food stamps on a weekly basis.”
<><>“we say ‘people’ because most people on food stamps aren’t even from this country.”
<><>“45% of Afghanistan immigrants are on food stamps.”
<><>42% of Somali immigrants,
<><>34% of every immigrant from Iraq,
<><>23% of Haitians.”
Just change (lower) the financial standard to receive benefits.
I’m retired (SSA & small pension).
My wife will work another 3 years (70).
At that time we will be eligible for “welfare” even though our assets will be in the 6-figure range.
We won’t apply but ...
A drop in the bucket for the excessive benefits all around.
The program should be limited to widows. Women should wait until they are married and their husband can support them before they have children. SNAP rewards irresponsibility, creating more of it. We are subsidizing illegitimacy and then wonder why we have so much of it.
I’ll take it a step farther.
There should be no SNAP program.
how about no snap?
or that snap can only be used to ‘exchange’ instead of ‘purchase’ of limited items like government cheese
Probably better to just give them a box of essentials so they don’t waste money on coca cola.
Give them 3 MREs per family member per day.
Then see how fast they find jobs.
L
They consider gaming the system as reparations- How do you get diabetic and obese on what should be a government stipend?
If your kids get free meals at school, your benefits are cut the commensurate amount.
You will receive specific food items, not just cash.
Food will be low cost and nutritious. Think MRE.
Lots of rice and beans.
You want to eat off the taxpayers, the taxpayers decide what you get to eat.
I just did research on your post. Simply is not true. Retiree ‘s have to have an income below poverty level and less than 4500 in assets. Fail,
I agree
bring back commodities
Get the government out of the charity business...roll it back to faith based institutions...like it used to be.
My mother raised 6 children on powdered milk, Tang and Tuna casserole. SNAP is unnecessary. They just sell the SNAP benefits for wigs, bonnets and drugs.
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