I read an article a long time ago that talked about the difference between receiving help when you truly needed it face to face with a real, live person .... and what ‘food stamps’ had become, a check in the mail (now EBT card). A study showed that people who went to a church to get bags of food, food that was paid for out of the pockets of the people giving them the grocery bags, did not need this ‘food assistance/welfare’ for very long. Once they started getting impersonal checks in the mail and did not have to look anyone in the eye, a good deal of the motivation to get off of the food assistance was gone.
A little “humiliation” as Milbanks puts it, for many on food assistance/welfare, might be a good thing. Then again ‘takers’ and ‘Liberals’ have little shame so it probably wouldn’t work ..... unless maybe they got tired of beans and rice. If they can buy anything they want with the EBT cards, there is little incentive to get off.
People can’t buy pet food, personal necessities and medicine on EBT.
Hello - it only funds food. But now you have Scrooges who think even a food program is demeaning.