Anybody on welfare and food stamps who is phyically able should be made to go out and work picking crops or lose their benefits. It’s time they gave back.
take your pick...lose the labor or lose the nation
Cast even a cursory glance at “agriculture”, and your eyes will start burning from the blatant corruption of everyone involved in every single aspect of our modern food supply chain. Farmers,Government,Manufacturers and Retailers.
All those cans and boxes at the retail stores are filled with factory processed farm products.
Pick a product, say green beans.
I still like to eat them.
I absolutely detest the planting, weeding, picking, stringing and canning of them. I know exactly how much manual physical labor is involved to “farm” a 1/4 acre of beans, and produce enough processed green bean servings to feed a family of six beans for a year.
I very happily pay $200.00 retail for a years supply for two, of canned or frozen green beans, that I don't personally have to farm and process myself!
Would I pay $400.00?
Probably, but maybe not if my income was reduced, and if other basic food commodities suddenly doubled in price.
I really hate the planting, weeding, picking, stringing and canning of green beans.
But I am fortunate in that I do know how to trade/barter my knowledge and labor, and “arrange to rent” an acre of land, to produce enough processed foods to feed my family myself.
I don't have a problem with kicking the physically able of my fellow citizens off welfare and food stamps, if they are taught how to plant, weed, pick, string and can green beans first...and also have access to the acre of land they will need to feed themselves.
I do have a problem with people who think the solution to ignorance and poverty in the USA is forcible indentured servitude to a business owner/AKA Farmer.
Offer a hand up, but not a handout.