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So create more govt employees to do more unproductive tasks such as dust parking meters, dig holes, fill them up and redig them? lol Lets just burn the money in the street.
Yes, let's have a 81 year old retiree great grandmother that is getting food stamps partake in government work. She's not disabled, so give her a shovel and make her work for that $121 a month in food stamps that she gets in addition to her $644/mo social security check.
And don't let her buy a pound cake or a donut with her food stamps! How dare she eat a donut with her coffee in the morning before she heads out to dig holes to earn her food stamp money.
Yeh.. I would support limiting the products/goods that food stamps can buy....
The time in my life that I ate the unhealthiest crap was when I was struggling.... cheap food has a great shelf life, full of carbs to make you full. Food stamps worked... there will be a scammer or person looking leverage the system.. always. I don't think it is worth scrapping because of them..
I find it interesting how the McDonald's menus vary depending on the demographic. The one near me (I now live in middle class neighborhood) doesn't list the 50 piece chicken nuggets on the menu but the previous town I lived in not too far has it for $12 bucks. You can feed 5 kids for less than $20 bucks and not have to cook nor clean. Yeh.. unhealthy but it is an option for parents in a pinch.
Yes, let's have a 81 year old retiree great grandmother that is getting food stamps partake in government work. She's not disabled, so give her a shovel and make her work for that $121 a month in food stamps that she gets in addition to her $644/mo social security check.
Lets no forget to put the children to work also. After all they are the number one recipients of food received from use of food stamps.
LOL, all the liberals who say that the elderly and children can't work. They're like "I just checked my liberal handbook and it says that you can only work between the ages of 35 and 50."
The bottom line is that you cannot eliminate food stamps. Some people really need it.
Most of us are not in that situation and consider yourself lucky
I did a quick google search, it looks like Most households have to meet both a monthly gross income test and a monthly net income test to be eligible for SNAP benefits. So what difference does it make if they use it to buy soft drink or potato? They have to learn how to budget that SNAP anyway.
Not even remotely true. I posted the link to a USDA OIG study clearly stating that 59% of the households on Food Stamps ALSO stack the benefits ofone or more additional MAJOR free food programs on top of their Food Stamp benefits.
No need to budget. They're already getting multiple times more food than they need, and are consequently disproportionately obese.
LOL, all the liberals who say that the elderly and children can't work. They're like "I just checked my liberal handbook and it says that you can only work between the ages of 35 and 50."
I'm thinking that mandatory labor for young children and the elderly is reminiscent of some camps during WWII that I heard about.
Not even remotely true. I posted the link to a USDA OIG study clearly stating that 59% of the households on Food Stamps ALSO stack the benefits ofone or more additional MAJOR free food programs on top of their Food Stamp benefits.
No need to budget. They're already getting multiple times more food than they need, and are consequently disproportionately obese.
Oh I didn't know that. They don't need to budget? who knew?
If you decided to lower their allowance, I have no problem with that. I'd still stick to my previous point, you cannot get rid of food stamps 100% and cracking down on fraud is more productive than telling people what not to buy.
1. Diapers do not qualify. No personal hygiene item does.
2. Bottled water is not a necessity for most people. Unless you live in a place like Flint, tap water is perfectly good. As a matter of fact, a lot of the big name bottled waters *are* tap water. Google it.
Thanks for letting me know I had no idea that diapers didn't qualify.
Go into a grocery store on a busy day and just look at what fat people have in their carts. It is no mystery why people are getting fat.
The question is should taxpayers fund obesity?
No, and we should end the double-dipping and triple-dipping or more of getting multiple MAJOR free food program benefits for the exact same meals.
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