[Elsiejay]

First order of business: Delete all food stamp program subsidies from the farm bill. This is not the direct business of farm producers...

[Vigilanteman]

Back when I was a kid in the 60s and 70s, food stamp payments were extremely minimal. Those getting them had to shop carefully and take advantage of surplus food distribution, usually butter and cheese.

My middle class family of 8 had to compete with them shopping for freight damaged food in cans or boxes and even basics like flour and cooking oil.

Not anymore. I'm constantly behind food stamp users in the supermarket line who buy stuff I can't possibly afford: fresh shrimp, the choicest cuts of meat and, as if to rub it in, they ofter drive off in cars I can't afford either.

At least under the old surplus food distribution programs, farmers got the benefit of commodity price support.