“Nutrition assistance” isn’t designed to stop hunger. It’s designed to be a massive subsidy for farmers, food producers and grocery store chains. Walmart is probably the strongest lobbyist for these things. I give it 5-10 years before people are allowed to use EBT cards to buy backyard grills, beer, and restaurant meals.
This is what happens when a country no longer aspires to do great things. Instead of sound anything useful and productive, we just set up government-run rackets like this.
Sorry — instead of DOING anything useful and productive …