re: Use your SNAP benefits to shop online at Amazon

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Over 60% of people on food stamps have jobs. The problem is not all about laziness, the main problem is the massive distance between jobs with decent wages and cost of living.

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Much like some other problems in our country, there are valid points on both sides of the argument - but instead people just want to stand on opposite sides and yell, and it's all or nothing.

There are hard working people that need the help.

There are some people who are deliberately "underemployed" and never try to improve.

There are women with husbands (or children's fathers) making $100 k per year who lie and say they are "separated" cause the want the free money.

There are a lot of "self employed" contractors, barbers/hairdressers, mechanics etc that misreport their income to qualify.

There are divorced women, essentially common law married to another man who "clean his house in return for rent" and get child support under the table.

There are the stereotypical "welfare queens"...but it's fewer than you'd expect.


The program could be cleaned up, but no one wants it to be. Rs and Ds love it because they can make strong pronouncements about it to pander to voting blocks.