Whether or not they are eating a healthy diet has nothing to do with what they buy at the grocery store. I see an awful lot of junk food. Potato chips, TV diners, candy, five gallon tubs of ice cream, etc.
Interesting: I don't see near this same level of concern for Seniors on a fixed income.
Allow me to add something very significant:
A report by a panel of experts released on Thursday questioned whether the federal government's food stamp program adequately provides for healthy diets for the more than 47 million low-income people who rely on the unearned
benefit.
Many of those we see can’t speak intelligible English but they sure know how to use those EBT cards.
Bro an’ Laqueesha be needin’ mo’ shit....give it up, whitey, yo rich muhf***ahs.
One of the most common complaints heard from welfare recipients when they are told how much they’ll be receiving is, “How does the government expect me to live off that?”
Yup—send more $$ so they can buy healthy food. Of course, they won’t use the $$ for that. Booze, cigarettes and drugs is more likely.
Lest those unfamiliar with the habitat of the Urban Feral misunderstand, the deplorable and dangerous conditions in Urban Feral habitats are the result of their violent and criminal behavior. Yes, food markets in such areas ARE fewer, costlier, and less pleasant places in which to shop - Because The Natives Steal! ! !
Urban Feral theft is so pervasive that costs are driven up while profits decline or vanish. Many merchants won't put up with such abusive customers.
A business is not a charity, though I should inform those unfamiliar with the negative effects of Urban Feral populations, that even churches, not just businesses, have to armor up or be stolen blind and/or burned out.
My kid worked in a grocery store. He could spot an EBT customer a mile away....based on cart contents. Soda pop, candy, and ho ho’s. I’m sure some people are genuinely in trouble....but for alot its a lifestyle choice.
Can someone please explain to me why they give food stamps to fat people?
No kidding. Our church is asking its members to "sponsor" low-income children from a nearby public elementary school. According to the pitch, these children will not have any healthy snacks during the weekends when they are not at school. Supposedly $20 per month will provide the child with the extra food they need during the weekends.
I would like to know how the food stamp benefits are calculated. If a child is getting free breakfast and lunch each day at school, shouldn't that be deducted from the family allotment?
I am naive about this, I realize.
These crap sandwich experts say we are not giving the lay about poor enough free food and not enough lobster, arugula and caviar.
B.S. I say. The Food Stamp program is an alternate currency in the ‘hood for cigarets, booze and drugs more than a nutrition program. Cut back the program and make the income standards a lot lower so not so many qualify.
What, isn’t there any nutritional value in steak and lobster?
time for govt to give these people better nutrition..they need lessons on buying and cooking healthy food and ebt can only be used at soup kitchens that they have to stand in line for food and sit through lectures on healty nutrition and becoming self sufficient...workfare-to get benefits they must do x number of hours community service like at soup kitchen
My opinion is that the gov should go back to giving out surplus foods i.e. commodities. We used to get these when I was a teenager. Butter, peanut butter, cracked wheat flour, benas and rice, dried milk and eggs, canned meats. We ate well but then my mother knew how to cook.
A lot of that food stamp money is wasted on junk food and prepared food even if they are spent at the grocery store and not the strip club.
Quit giving them money! Park a block of surplus cheese the size of a house in the center of every “urban center” (not what my Daddy called that part of town) and let them take all they need.
Mar and myself (Dav) were on WIC for a brief spell and what that program did was provide coupons for specific items to feed our toddler (milk, juice, peanut butter, cheese). It was a weird melange of items and there was no way our child was going to down the amount of milk they provided us with). We ended up giving some to a friend who was trying to make ends meet.
A couple of points about this: First, these programs are random, haphazard, not targeted. We were given coupons for something like 8 gallons of milk to help us through a period of 1 month. We had one toddler. If that child had consumed all the milk “provided”, she would likely have gone through puberty at the age of 6 (given all the hormones in cows these days.)
Second, while using a shot-gun approach to the problem, identifying specific items is the way to go here. We couldn’t buy anything with those coupons except the items specified. This is what needs to be done with EBT. If you ring up an item that is not on an approved list, it will not deduct from your EBT account and the cashier will announce, “That’s 57.80 [for the non-EBT items—maybe applying just the right touch of wake-up and shame at check-out].”
I know, this is more government, but it moves us in the direction of reducing waste/abuse. Perhaps each state can create their own lists via ballot initiatives, careful to include locally produced products (oranges in Florida, tomatoes in New Jersey, road kill from West Virginia — JUST kidding).
We are in the bread(EBT) and circuses(NFL) phase of the demise of the republic. We are Rome.