That's all true...But like they say, you can't throw the baby out with the bathwater...Many people do need the help...
It would be better if churches did it all. Churches will even help unbelievers because they hope to present a winsome face of God to someone who is headed to hell... even though that is their own fault.
Mere dollars and cents with nothing more turns what had once been charity into a cold cynical game.
And this isn’t intended to trash everyone. What the article addressed was people looking down on EBT card users. There are some pretty good reasons to, where we like them or not.
Did you by any chance see the long lines at alternate post offices after the 1992 riots? There on the street for the first time in plain sight were the Welfare Recipients.
Oh my, these 300+ pound women lurching down the street... many of them.
Think they aren’t getting food stamps. Think they need them?
If they would clean up welfare and the EBT and the free lunches and the..., and on and on it goes... most of us wouldn’t complain.
There are clearly many abuses going on.
Do I object to people down on their luck getting some help? No. Is that what is taking place most of the time? I don’t think so.
Those that aren’t abusing the system, I support getting some form of assistance temporarily.