You have to pick your battles. Battling against food stamps is a sure loser.
Not that the program is perfect because it isn’t. But I also know people who were desperate for a while and this got them through.
My son met people in Malawai who know what it’s like dirt when there is nothing else. People in Korea eat grass and starve to death. You really think the United States of America should tell hungry citizens that it’s their problem? There would be a communist backlash that you’d like a whole lot less than the food stamps.
Well, speaking as someone who has used food banks in the past.
I don’t have any sympathy. None, whatsoever. I work hard to make sure I have enough money to be able to feed myself. There have been hard periods, but people in general were kind enough to help me out of a difficult spot. And I have helped others out too.
We don’t need food stamps. Imagine how charitable people would be if they saw that someone was truly in need of food, and the program did not exist? Do you think that they would be more likely to help that person as their neighbour? I think so.
Food stamps is a huge bloat and just like any government program, performs far worse than private charities. Or people helping each other.
Decades ago, William F. Buckley wrote a piece in which he noted that poor people could live perfectlly healthy lives on a diet of bulgur wheat, dried milk, beans, and lard that the government could provide in quantity to those who wanted handouts. That should have happened a long time ago, and would be hellaless expensive than the bureaucratic mess that is here because of the “hunger” lobby.
Battling against food stamps is no loser. People buying steaks and cheetos in front of you at WalMart on their food stamp card—so they’re not embarrassed by being on welfare—is at best an annoyance to most people who have to work for their food. I think a lot of people are sick of able-bodied folks making taxpayers carry their weight. Worse, many food stamp recipients aren’t legally here in the first place as a lot of the folks taking apps aren’t overly concerned about anything but getting the app completed and another warm body on the rolls.