In any case, Perry and every other conservative ought to JUMP holler and YELL that YESTERDAY should have been the day it was required: Food Stamps or those debit cards can be used ONLY for the purchase of essentials, and it would be easy enough to do that. You can't buy beer with them -- they must add soft drinks to that list -- the only beverages one should be able to purchase with food stamps should be milk (or milk substitute), water, or juice.
Screw drug testing. The only thing drug testing would do would be to force a black market in ways to outsmart drug tests, and druggie moms who suddenly lost their food stamp/welfare privileges would create MORE problems, not fewer. No, drug testing is a thing to salve the vanities of those who call for them, but it serves no real purpose. It sure as HELL isn't going to be "the thing" that gets these people off drugs. Been there, done that -- I know of what I speak. People start and stop drugs for other reasons.
SURELY, especially with today's amazing technology, it must be relateively straightforward and simple to have a list of food types eligible for food stamps -- canned tuna, eggs, canned soup, bread, peanut butter, jelly, margerine, cooking oil, dairy basics (milk, butter, cheese, etc.), flour, breakfast cereal, sugar, fish, GROUND BEEF (that should be the ONLY kind of beef one can buy with food stamps), chicken, fresh or frozen vegetables. OF COURSE that could be done, and I'd personally be okay if they allowed frozen TV dinners and frozen pizzas, because I know many people really don't know how to cook. If grocery stores can keep such tight track of what I buy that they'll custom-target marketing to me based on it, then SURE AS HELL any food stamp program can very strictly define the items that may be purchased with food stamps.
It ROYALLY PISSES ME OFF that my husband and I work hard and pay so much in taxes that when I go the store, I have to buy hamburger instead of my favoriate leg of lamb -- and I get in line behind some STUPID leech buying filet mignon and sodas with MY money that I COULD have used to buy lamb in instead of hamburger.
It is IMMORAL.
It is IMMORAL.
Same with me and the wife. In fact, the local butcher was struggling. But with the influx of people with food stamps who can afford that expensive meat, he has hired 2 new people.
He just runs me and the wife off with a sharp stick.