[chris_bdba]

Five years on food stamps? Did it ever occur to her that she needed to do more to feed her family rather than wait for Big daddy government to take care of her? Like don’t have kids if you can’t feed them....

[max americana]

Here in Hollywood CA there is a large banner about the Hollywood Market festival and in big letters ‘EBT ACCEPTED’..

Now how the heck am I going to feel sympathy when almost every burger joint accepts EBT? Most of the mexicans in front of me in line at the store were swiping their cards like they won the lottery and they dress in Abercrombie attire.

[CitizenUSA]

Anyone on the receiving end of ANY government handout should be constantly striving for ways to achieve self sufficiency. I'll take the word of Democrats that they create these programs to help people, and people are helped. However, the problems are twofold, and they are very serious ones. One, government programs are inherently very inefficient, meaning that much of the resources directed toward helping people are actually wasted. Two, handouts encourage irresponsible and dependent behavior. What should be temporary becomes permanent. What starts small expands rapidly. No matter how much Democrats want to help, assuming they do, they just can't get around the reality of bureaucracies and human nature.