re: Alabama food stamp drops 85%....cant be posted enough

You think they're gonna quit eating?

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Nationwide, there are about 44 million people receiving SNAP benefits at a cost of about $71 billion. The Trump administration has vowed to cut the food stamp rolls over the next decade, including ensuring that able-bodied adults recipients are working.

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MAGA Working

This should happen in every state. Government assistance should help to get you on your feet, not be a career choice.

Bump

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Because it saves money to do it that way Duh!!!, and the contract holders have to hire people just like the Gov would and pay their insurance as well as maintain equipment. You really should think before you post crap like this.

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Not if you take the SNAP budget and use it to fund the said jobs. Would be a net gain, without a doubt.

First job out of LSU i worked for the OFS. I was vilified for trying to hold people accountable to receive benefits. I would bust people all the time in their silly simple lies and then they would call and complain. I would get chewed out and have to give them another interview so they could run a different story. People in LA have the system down and just teach their kids how to use it. People that actually need help and dont know how to lie cant get benefits.

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The counties - Greene, Hale, Perry, Dallas, Lowndes, Wilcox, Monroe, Conecuh, Clarke, Washington, Choctaw, Sumter and Barbour

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The Alabama Black Belt Region. Solid Democrat voting base.

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If a person gets $100 in food stamps and shops at Walmart....will that SAME person shop elsewhere with $100 he/she earned from employment?

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I think you would see more discretionary spending. If someone has $400 in Food Stamps a month they will use $400. If that same person only really needs $350 a month and it's coming from their account, not the taxpayers then they will spend $350. I worked in a grocery store in HS that was adjacent to the 'hood. WIC and Food Stamps were 40-50% of our intake at least. This was over a decade ago and we had some customers who would have $700+ a month for groceries. I have no idea what that number looks like now, but I wouldn't think it has dropped.

I also worked as an HR director for a large employer in that same area fresh out of college. There is a cultural to survive and get by and work the system that is taxing the American welfare system and taking away from those truly in need. The turnover was absolutely crazy because people who work the system know it. They knew how much they could make, how long they had to be employed, and how they had to be let go in order to receive maximum benefits, but still have cash to spend. The thought and dedication they had to achieving this would have made them significantly more money in the long run had they dedicated to their profession.

I applaud Alabama for attempting to correct this. It's tough love, but a system and cycle must be broken. There are those who truly need help and I have zero issue with that being provided. However, the subset of the population that works the system needs to have their priorities shifted for their betterment and societies in the long run. Apply same effort to job that was used to calculating working the system, profit, make more money, pay taxes, instill work ethic in kids, kids do better in school to make more money, kids pay more in taxes, value the work and effort put to obtaining things, crime drops, see the detriment to society that the dregs are and disassociate with them, and society profits. In three generations we could see this blight on the civility in America be eradicated or at least diminished significantly.

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First job out of LSU i worked for the OFS. I was vilified for trying to hold people accountable to receive benefits. I would bust people all the time in their silly simple lies and then they would call and complain. I would get chewed out and have to give them another interview so they could run a different story. People in LA have the system down and just teach their kids how to use it. People that actually need help and dont know how to lie cant get benefits.

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That sounds absolutely miserable.

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The counties - Greene, Hale, Perry, Dallas, Lowndes, Wilcox, Monroe, Conecuh, Clarke, Washington, Choctaw, Sumter and Barbour

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If I'm not mistaken, all of those counties are in - or near - the blackbelt region. This is an area of rich glacial til that extends from around Tupelo, MS, southward into AL and east to near the GA line. It was the sight of many large plantation operations.

Interestingly enough, the counties in that region tend to vote democrat.

Very interesting...