Posted on 01/06/2018 8:36:46 AM PST by caww
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. has swelled to more than 42 million today. As a result of Obama Administration’s policies, the number of Americans on food stamps is now 'greater than the population of Canada.'
Nationwide spending on the program is roughly $70 billion annually —20 percent of which is wasted on junk food, candy, soda, and other sugary drinks. Consider California, which spent more than $1 billion on food stamp benefits in August and September alone.
The good news is that President Trump has a chance to take on food stamps in the upcoming Farm Bill, which funds the program and is reauthorized every five years.
The food stamp program has a work requirement for only a narrow segment of adults and has been largely waived, and Medicaid has none at all, although states are now asking that it be added. The Trump Administration’s budget wisely proposes applying work requirements more broadly in the welfare system.
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MAGA! Dittos!
MAKE AMERICANS WORK AGAIN!!!
But I'm sure many sell their cards for x cents on the dollar...
Drug testing.
Enforce a work requirement on every person that receives a check including the disabled. Special work can be arranged for folks that have handicaps. They need to feel worthwhile again.
Step 2 is to enforce a no drug policy with routine screening. Take drugs and no checkie!
Forty years ago, I knew people who would use their food stamps to buy good qualities of meat and then sell the meat for cash-usually 40 to 50 cents on dollar. This has been going on for years.
rump is more aware than any prior President of the fraud in Welfare.
Random drug testing every month.
Mandatory drug testing should have penalties:
Get caught dirty & 1 full year without benefits. Nothing of any kind.
2nd time dirty-— off welfare & other benefits for life.
NO EXCEPTIONS.
In the late 60’s I worked as a grocery checker. In those days, there were paper coupons for food stamps.
Still— I had customers who came thru with steaks & lobster & other high end eats. Those ‘ladies’ had fancy manicures, nice hair stylings, and a couple even had fur coats—(the 60’s). They had nicer jewelry than I have EVER owned.
I certainly didn’t see why they had food stamps. I got so I hated the first week of the month in the checkstand.
I could entertain you all day with stories from my volunteer work at the food bank. Way too many people are 'satisfied' with a disability check, which averages about $700 or so per month, and food stamps. The folks don't live in very nice housing, lots of Section 8, and few of them have a car. But they muddle along month-to-month, living off you and me. The desire to improve themselves just isn't there.
The government has had these programs for so long that it's become a generational thing. Great grand parents, grandparents, parents and kids all sucking the government teat.
Disability will be harder to control as you have Doctors involved.
Yes I agree for the most part...although those on disability need to be determined case by case.
I had a neighbor who both husband and wife were on disability.....yet she worked on line for a company and he did unclaimed work as well. It was nothing for both mowing their lawn, raking leaves in their yard....and taking their boat out for boating.....She boasted that they got a new car every year. (because of how they played the system.)
Someone turned them in.....had to sell their house and no longer ‘enjoying’ the fruits of OUR labor!
Yes!
We are definitely at a crossroads where we either 1) stop rewarding idleness, or 2) increase wages. Right now it is simply easier to loaf around than to work a low-skilled job. You’ll end up in the same boat (same housing, same schools, same neighbors), but the worker is just more tired.
It was nothing for both mowing their lawn, raking leaves in their yard....and taking their boat out for boating.....
Not saying your neighbors were disabled but doing that stuff is not really a sign they’re not. I have degenerative disc disease, a pinched sciatic, and a pinched nerve in my neck. I try like heck to lead as normal a life as I can. I can still do those things. What no one sees is after doing something like that I have to spend the rest of the day, and maybe the next day laying down. There’s no way I could do them every day but once a week? Yeah. It would hurt like hell but as long as I have a day or 2 to recup. Most people’s ideas of disability does not reflect reality is all I’m saying.
The left will claim the Republicans want people dying in the streets.
I’d like to know how they determine the amount they get. Seems to me if it’s allowing for high end eats etc. then they’re given far too much.
....my mother was on ‘surplus food’ allotment after my dad died from war wounds. And I tell you she was genuis at making otherwise bland food into ‘wonder dishes’ for all four of us kids. People got the basics then...flour, sugar, rice, canned meat, cheese and dry milk. But she made it work. And she worked at anything she could find.....slinging burgers, door to door sales, cleaning lady...until she finally got her nurses assistant degree.
Yes, I've heard of the "general welfare" clause, but the Founding Fathers' intent was not such that the people could get freebies at the cost of the other people's productive efforts.
The 10th Amendment stipulates "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people".
I remember Newt's Congress forcing welfare reform on Clinton. It remained the same under W. IIRC. It was Obama and the Dim Congress who did away with limited time frame and the work requirement. A big example of his/their socialism.
And they wonder why there are so many homeless encampments which has been in the news lately. Yes, some people need help. However, it was proven that when the welfare benefits ran out, most people got jobs all of a sudden.
That is why I said disability needs to be done on a case by case basis. In their case they boasted about how they gamed the system......
“But I’m sure many sell their cards for x cents on the dollar... “
It is blatent. Look up “water dumping”. Basically they buy cases of bottled water using EBT cards, then dump out the water and return the bottles for the .05 deposit. Even back when there were actual food stamps people would sell them for pennies on the dollar.
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