re: How are people opposing the food box proposal?

I grew up poor. I mean, borderline homeless poor. We had no hot water. We had no gas or propane- and lived in town. So I split wood to burn in our old leaky wood stove. Over half the time our electric was off, until my dad (God rest his soul) convinced the neighbor to let us run an extension cord out of his side window into our side window so we could watch tv and run a microwave. We got both food stamps and box commodities from the time I was 12 until I graduated and moved out at age 17 in 1996.

I am a witness. If someone offered to give me one or two blocks a month of that gov'ment cheese again, I would fall all over myself. Hell, if it had been offered to us to have it delivered to our front door, we would have been ecstatic. Would've saved many walks halfway across town (albeit a small town) with a heavy box of cheese, canned foods and dry foods.