Besides, have you ever seen "thin" people using food stamps?
All that I see are people who weigh twice what normal people weigh who buy name-brand products, while many of us "cash" people have to buy generics to get by.
Exactly. There are already serious health problems in Hispanics due to obesity, giving more food stamps doesn't seem to be really a good idea when they need to lose weight to prevent diabetes and heart disease.
Yes, I have. I went to the store today got in line behind a woman with a cart full of groceries and she paid for them with food stamps. She and her four children all spoke Spanish and not a bit of English btw.
Yeah here too in Oregon a lot.
It used to be, the convenience pre-cooked, ready to eat stuff was all off limits, and a recipient had to prove he had cooking facilities.
This has been relaxed in recent years now, and now it just has to be not still warm.
Heck, you can buy Slurpees and Big Gulps on the "Oregon Trail Benefit Card".
My thinking would be, sorry, those kinds of things are not food.
But your point too is a good one.
We are a one wage earner household with three foster kids. It's a private arrangement - neither the state or either of the kids' parents provide any assistance and that's fine. We love them and will provide for them just fine and I'll thank the state to just keep it's big fat nose out of my business.
But it chaps my posterior when we go to the local supermarket for our week's groceries, and that week's budget is 50 bucks and we get hamburger and potato(e)s and things like that, and the cart ahead in line is lanen with nice steaks and things I'd probably get if I were single with my income, and they whip out that "Oregon Trail Benefit Card".
Yup it chaps my butt alright.
Dave in Eugene