Posted on 02/15/2018 11:15:25 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
In his big budget proposal Monday, President Trump offered a novel idea: Instead of giving needy people stamps they can redeem for food, why not just give them actual food?
As you might guess, liberals were enraged by the notion. How dare Mr. Trump try to take food stamps away from hungry people and give them — of all things — food?
Here’s how the liberal HuffPost saw it: “Facing a trillion-dollar deficit because of his just-passed tax cuts, President Donald Trump has an idea for how to get some of that money back: making poor people eat beans and rice.”
Oh, the humanity!
Currently, food stamps — known officially as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) — are provided for some 42 million people, 80 percent of whom get food vouchers each month worth at least $90 per person. They can be redeemed at many stores for food, but the program is rife with abuse.
*SNIP*
Under the Trump proposal, those 80 percent of all SNAP recipients would get about half of their benefits in the form of a “USDA Foods package,” NPR reported. “The package was described in the budget as consisting of ‘shelf-stable milk, ready to eat cereals, pasta, peanut butter, beans and canned fruit and vegetables.’”
The program would be called “America’s Harvest Box.” Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue called it “a bold, innovative approach to providing nutritious food to people who need assistance feeding themselves and their families — and all of it is home-grown by American farmers and producers.”
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The unsaid remedy for food stamps is the something that worked post World War II.
If you don’t have enough to eat, then get your extended family to help you out, not the taxpayer.
This is one subtle way the Federal government destroyed family. The family must take care of its own.
Lame argument, not even in the same ballpark but I’ll play along.
Ditzy moshell decided that kids were eating too much crap in school, so the nutritionist decided that had to change. Oh wait, was it only the food for the kids who were given it for free??? Ah, no.
You decided to miss the point intentionally because of your insane disdain for our President.
Marvelous idea. Of course, those in the same class as Moochie (lobster lovers, Arugula slugs, slimy worms, and mealy bugs) would prefer the cash. They are so educated they are unable to cook for themselves. In Texas something something very much like this was/is done, Passing out food for the cash deprived. Government cheese is just one on the list of offered items. Maybe this was done on a monthly basis, no memory of how often or what other ‘goodies’ might have been handed out. Forking out cash equivalent to those who have the minds of children is seldom a brilliant idea.
They’ve not been taught, therefore they’ve never learned, and, sadly, could care less as long as they’ve jingle in their pockets.
President TRUMP = continuing to MAGA which is butt hurt for liberals.
I remember that cheese, yes, way better than Velveeta. Could have been the drugs though
Surprisingly few people do.
I can think of a lot of better things to make with milk than.....”powdered milk”.
YUCK!
(real milk is bad enough)
Who’s going to put the boxes of food together?
Personally I’d reassign everybody in the FBI to this task.
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Me, too. I think the should all be given this opportunity to meet the public face to face over cans of black eyes peas!! or black beans or beans and rice. Right-e Oh!
Where can I buy MRE’s?
After hurricane Anrew I would trade my homemade lunches for them. The troops loved my sandwiches and those MRE’s would really good.
“Put me in charge and we’ll replace food stamps with...Shovels, rakes, mops and brooms, lawn mowers, paint brushes, chainsaws,...”
Bad move, they’ll just sell all that and buy drugs.
Well that’s it exactly.... Our parents knew how to make life work with what they had......you live within your means and strive to do better.
There were a couple other families on “Surplus Food” my mother knew and between the three they would ‘trade’ food items to adapt to their own families likes and dislikes which worked out very well.
Just seems to me people were far ore appreciative of what they had , even if little, and knew how to adapt. Today they just have overinflated opinions of what they think they are ‘due’.
I’m grateful for the life we lived, however poor it was. Because my mom gave us the wealth of knowledge, dignity, steady morals and all that wealth cannot buy. ...most of all she stood against any back talk and grumbling. She knew how to judge.
I had an economics prof from Wisconsin, who tailored his entire course from the point of view of the “cheese economy”. I figured it would either truly explain economics, or be the equivalent of a cheese lobotomy. I fear the worst, as I have little recollection of his class.
They used to hand out commodities when I was a kid. Surplus cheese, powdered milk, flour......Had to go pick them up. Now people are to embarrassed to be known as welfare recipients..
Poor people have always survived on carbs because they are 10 times cheaper than meat. Beans and potatoes used to be real cheap. I remember when hamburger went to 49¢ a pound and Lady Bid suggested that people should eat more cheese which went for twice that price. Oh well.
They got rid of the actual Food “Stamps” and replaced them with a Debit Card.
Was that done because of the embarrassment factor or because it saved Money running the scam? Hmmmmmmm.
Nowadays I don’t hear about people saying they are embarrassed about using EBT. It’s become a Lifestyle choice, not a Program to help the truly needy.
I’m sure the fraud is incalculable.
Like my Mother always said, you help People who CAN’T help themselves, not People who WON’T help themselves.
Then they’ll get really hungry.
We always had food from the three major food groups. Beans, potatoes and corn.
I seem recall Barry Farber saying that nearly 40 years ago.
Am I the only one that remembers "Poor Farms?" Does anyone remember when Vagrancy was a crime, or panhandling was a crime, or when someone had to show a visible means of support?
Cheap veggies now about $1/lb and cheap meat about $2/lb. Eggs readily at $2/dozen and milk at $4/lb.
Food is a bargain!
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