Whatever keeps ‘em out of Walmart...
How about giving up the LIE about that supposed “endangered fish”?
Then one of the most fertile farming areas of the world could produce more than all of California can eat.
Then they’ll need a voucher for a free car to get there.
Most Californians are nowhere near a Farmer’s Market and the few that are probably would not know what to do with produce.
They could buy produce at any supermarket — but they don’t.
This is just another waste of money. Our money.
I shopped at a farmer’s market yesterday and nobody gave me any money to do it. But then I’m trying to save money so I can pay my local taxes due at the end of August. The government takes money from the pockets of people who have a little, a very little, then parcel it out to buy votes of people who never worked or saved.
I would guess most low-income Californians get their groceries from McDonalds, and wouldn’t know a farmers market if they drove through it stoned.
“Primarily, it’s a great way to begin the process of turning a start-up bureaucracy into a gargantuan, wasteful, bloated bureaucracy.”
There. Fixed it.
At least a third of your tax money for any of these noble programs goes to the government bureaucrats who supervise the program and shuffle the papers to report back to D.C.
Instead of the $8 TRILLION dollars we’ve spent on The Poor, beginning with LBJ’s “War on Poverty,” if the government had just sent The Poor one check every month and let them spend it where they want to, with no bureaucrats “supervising”, it would be a far more efficient system.
Yes, there would be fraud and abuse, but we have fraud and abuse today, along with a bloated bureaucracy that does a lousy job. The nanny state gets its power by taking our money and then doling it out to benefit its friends and punish its enemies, while employing an army of federal employees at much better wages and pensions than they would get in private enterprise.
At least they are buying real food. Time to cut out the allowance of junk food. I think that would get a lot off food stamps quickly.
Are you kidding me? This is nothing more than a pay out to non-profits to pay their staffs hefty salaries for "feel good" activities that accomplish nothing. How do you measure success for "encouraging people to shop at farmers' markets"? Notice the money isn't going to the food stamp recipients, it's going to organizations to promote the program. 32 organizations! Notice the administrative group got the big chunk of the money ($5 million), while the actual food bank got a whopping $68K. $16.8 million for 40 million on food stamps is just under $3 per person. So, guess what people, money's not going to the food stamp recipients, it's going to some fat cat do-gooder, running a non-profit or state agnecy and cashing in on other people's misfortunes.
“A $3.9 million federal grant awarded to the California Department of Food and Agriculture”
There’s that word again, GRANT! We would have a balanced budget in a heartbeat if we eliminated ALL GRANTS, Including the one’s to the UN and every little $hit hole country on the planet.
As a taxpayer I would rather buy these freeloaders some fresh produce than chips and cookies. But this program will fail because fresh produce needs to be cooked and prepared, and most of these bums are far too lazy to do that.
Do they actually have to buy produce at these farmers’ markets, or will the “farmers” start selling cases of pop and chips?
I think the federal agriculture department was needed, long ago. Now, farming has “grown up” immensely, the nation has no problems growing and distributing the food it needs, and exporting food like never before as well. We no longer need federal ag dep meddling, subsidies, grant programs or anything else. State agencies alone, and specialized for their own state can do a good enough job without the feds. The depression has been over long ago. Time to dump many things that began just because there was a depression.
Our farmers market has a table where they SIGN people up for food stamp programs
I think that all government funding to advertise government services should be stopped.
I think that all government funding to advertise government services should be stopped.
Doubling their food buying dollars won’t come anywhere close to the cost difference between high priced farmers markets and the grocery store.
Which congress critter is lining his wallet with this bill?
Oh well, we do not expect progressives to have ideas that actually work, do we?
Especially CA progressives, who are stupid beyond definition.
-PJ