re: Food stamp prohibitions

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Right.

So maybe morons like Wednesday can stop stressing about who spends what on food stamps as if she's somehow out of pocket 50 dollars every pay period over the fricking SNAP program.

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So what you're saying is that theft, grift and corruption are okay as long as each transaction takes place at an infinitesmally small value over millions of people?

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Yeah

If we want a starving country that sounds like a good idea

If someone is in between jobs they shouldn't eat?

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That's what unemployment insurance or short-term disability is for. When me and my wife decided to have children, both times we took out a short term disability policy to pay a percentage of her paycheck While She Was Out on maternity leave.

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I'm not saying that the system can't be improved or tweaked I'm saying the level of outrage is fricking ludicrous People act like they're out of some serious coin to pay for these benefits. And it simply isn't the case.

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It's one of many things the government needs to improve.

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What portion of your income do you think goes to SNAP benefits?

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So maybe morons like Wednesday can stop stressing about who spends what on food stamps as if she's somehow out of pocket 50 dollars every pay period over the fricking SNAP program.

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I’m trying to figure out what is so wrong or funny or moronic about with trying to make sure that what we are paying for with food stamps also benefits the food recipient’s health, and also manages to decrease what we also pay in taxes to pay for her medical expenses. Entitlement benefits, including Medicare are a monstrous portion of our spending.

I don’t think we should get rid of food stamps, but I do think we should certainly limit what they cover to make sure that we encourage healthy behavior as opposed to unhealthy behaviors- which are ultimately more expensive for those of us footing the bill and ultimately harmful for the people depending on benefits.

I’m definitely not about tagging their drivers licenses so I can track food stamp recipients into tittie bars and casinos. Ultimately, we’re just supplementing people’s incomes with food stamps. But creating another police state to make sure they spend their disposable income as we see fit is a waste of everyone’s time and money. We’re spending more on welfare and not seeing any benefit.

To agree with HHTM - it problably would cost us a minimal amount to teach a credit card machine that it has to decline purchase from a candy aisle. It helps everyone- the payors and the recipients.