That is really telling.
Maybe it is by design. Maybe these consequences of the welfare state are intended consequences, not unintended consequences.
We hear about urban "food deserts". Maybe the urban poor stopped buying uncooked food before the supermarket left, not the other way around.
As I understand it, the National School Lunch Program benefits are not deducted from Food Stamps. So if you have kids in school, each kid is in essence overpaid in food stamps by about 1/3rd. Which means more money for potato chips and Little Debbie snack cakes.
It's interesting to watch the EBT card people divide their stuff in the grocery checkout. The big bags of dog food and beer go separate from the food (which always seems to consist of the best cuts of meat)
If you're on welfare you have no business owning a pet (unless it's a cockroach or a rat)
We got a report from our school district a few months ago, and I’ll tell you, we are NOT in a poor area, nor a wealthy area, just middle class.
Anyways, according to the district report, about 70% of all students were on assisted lunch programs.
Our kids brown sack it. Early in the week we plan our meals for their lunches, so we might make a ham on sunday, then they have ham sammiches, leftover chicken = chicken salad, leftover meatloaf, meatloaf sammiches. You know... how I thought most folks did it, how my folks did it.
Now, when I go into the lot to pick up my kids, I see new cars, fancy cars, my kids friends all have every game system out there and tons of games, big TV’s, they vacation to nice places every year (we have a run down mobile home, in the woods up in the UP where they tent it, and mom and dad sleep in the old leaky mobile home), they’re friends wear the latest Uggs shoes (our kids wear whatever is on sale), etc, but 70% of them are on assisted food programs? I don’t understand it.
Isn’t there some income verification or something? It just struck me that the majority of these folks were just gaming the system.
It’s like I’m the last one in on “the joke”, as if, “if you are not on assistance you are a dumbass”.