So we don't have enough people applying for and receiving food stamps. Perhaps we have several times to many. Perhaps the readily available food stamps are the reason why the illegal immigrants find jobs in the U S so available and there for the taking. Perhaps if so much welfare wasn't available, there would be no "jobs that Americans don't want or won't do." When will those of us that work get a belly full of those that have learned that they don't have to work. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
Food stamps are one of the few forms of welfare that I wholly support, with the proviso that there has *got* to be a better way of doing this.
Free public school breakfasts and lunches are a start, but there almost has to be indoctrination, an insistence that kids eat healthy food until their bodies are trained to like healthy food. Essentially forcing children to eat, and grading them down if they fail to comply. (Granted if it is food they *can't* eat, from allergies or intolerance, then their parents can be notified early.)
There are far too many adults in the US who they and their families subsist on rice and beans, and not because they are economically destitute, but out of choice. Giving food stamps to such people is a waste--just give them the sacks of rice and beans, like they do in Mexico. The stuff is dirt cheap, and we have too much of it as is.
The total negative effects of Reagan giving away surplus government cheese was zero, except to the people who received it. It saved the government money for storage, it got rid of cheese that was just going to rot, and the price of retail cheese was unaffected. It was a great lesson in economics.
We have mountains of food that rot every year, so why not give it away, if it doesn't effect the regular retail price? It will save us all money.
Witless bureaucrat is worried about being replaced by a computer... So he appears to care.
As of July 2006, the unemployment rate for Alabama was 3.6%. I am amazed at the number of help wanted signs posted at business entrances around town. Anyone who wants to work, can. However, it's pretty tough to compete (as an employer) with the income one can receive from Food Stamps, Aid for Dependent Children, Welfare, and Section 8 Housing. All totaled, I suspect it approaches double the minimum wage.