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Locally you can buy a ham on the bone for about $1 per pound when it's on sale. I'll cut most of it up into one pound hunks and freeze it. Bone goes into a soup pot for some absolutely delicious ham soup. Couple dollars in vegetables and I can feed about 6 people with it. Grand total for one meal is 10 or $12 and I still have 4 pounds of ham in the freezer.
And you probably dont need to spend that little.
Tip: Fortified Ramen. buy ramen. Buy cheap steak. marinate steak in worcestershire 48 hours (softens it), cut in small slices and cook. Add to the Ramen. beef and noodles for about 2 bucks.
I agree that Food Stamps should have limits on items as long as its not bread and gruel only.
Soda is the number one item purchased with EBT and part of the reason for that is it can easily be resold...
True.
In Appalachia, people use their EBT cards to buy cases of Mountain Dew. Those are then exchanged for cash at a different store.
Don't think that poor people are just dumb. If your only source of income was an EBT card, and you were addicted to cigarettes or alcohol, you would likely do the same thing regardless of your race.
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Yes, because it’s far more feasible to have 24 hour cafeterias within walking distance of every American. That wouldn’t be wasteful at all.
Im not saying I agree, but I think it would be possible.
Have ebt cards work like Meal cards at schools and colleges
Have it set so the cards can only be swiped 3 times a day, serve a total of 6 meals ( 6 Am, 8 AM 12, 3pm, 6pm, and 8 pm) so that you can catch all the people with different work times and place these cafeterias in the same type areas they put state owned drug/alcohol stores.
Food stamp fraud is prevalent because it’s almost impossible to get welfare these days. Our social safety net does a reasonably good job of making sure American people don’t go hungry, but food stamps can’t pay your electric bill or buy tampons. I grew up in a poor neighborhood, and it was quite common to see people flip food stamps for cash at $.50 to the dollar because they couldn’t buy things like diapers and laundry detergent.
And? Isn't it enough we are supplying people's food? Now it should be for bills and hygiene products? Where does it end?
And who's fault is that?
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