Actually, I don’t find it offensive at all. I see SNAP recipients every day at my WalMart. Seventeen percent of the people in my county are on SNAP, 6000 of them.
I never see any of them that are underfed, I never see any of them that are underdressed unless you want to count the ones I see around 10 or 11AM still in their jammies and slippers. I hardly ever see things like rice, potatoes, canned or raw vegetables - hardly anything that you’d have to put in a pot/oven or cook. Mostly microwave packaged food and snacky items. Whenever I happen to be going out with them to the parking lot, they invariably get in a nicer car than mine and drive off home. I hear them talk among themselves and even with the cashier - the are PROUD of what they get, even boast. They treat that card like a Platinum Amex.
47 Million today are on SNAP - Obama has doubled up to that in 5 years! Verification in applications is virtually non-existent and fraud is rampant - just like in EITC. You know, we hear ‘cuts’ in SNAP and all sorts of crying, but the media NEVER tells you that SNAP is only one spoke in the entitlement wheel. Most of them are on disability, or TANF, or SECTION Housing, welfare Mommas are always on WICs, and all of them get a whopping big EITC check every year.
Putting the point of fraud and multiple entitlements aside, just because someone was too shortsighted in preparation for education, preparation (saving) for life’s unexpected problems, and so on, that is no reason their burden should be forcibly solved by the US Taxpayer. That is the job of Churches, Benevolent Organizations like Salvation Army, and family and friends.
It’s easier than EVER!!