At least this would guarantee that these people get 80% of the benefit in real food. The democrats want people to continue to sell their cards for heroin and crack. Those democrats really care about the children.
How we gonna buy smokes, gum, Skittles, and get cash wid damn beans and rice.
Trump you mo fo.
From the article - “It’s going to stigmatize people when they have to go to certain places to pick up benefits,” Jim Weill, president of the Food Research and Action Center, told NPR.”
These same people were not stigmatized when they purchased steaks (and whatever they could with little limitations) with their EBT food stamp cards, while those of us who worked waited in line to pay our hard earned cash for hamburger.
kind of heavy on the Carbs.
If I gave a fresh whole chicken, five pounds of potatoes, and a pound of fresh carrots to a typical SNAP recipient the SNAP recipient would not know what do with fresh food. They would probably trade the food for cigarettes.
What!? No scratch-offs, blunts, OE40’s, Newports, Mac Cheese and 20 lb. bags of Sugar Pops?
So Michelle Obama tinkers with school lunches and it’s all Big Brother telling people what they should eat. Now along comes Department of Agriculture telling food stamp recipients the same thing?
Sounds like no-frills to me, which is exactly what is called for.
This food should not be gourmet food. It should be nutritional, but cause folks to want better. That means getting a job and buying better, if you want better.
It will still take care of their needs, but it’s also an incentive.
Get off your ass.
This president is truly amazing.
Go Trump!
It is a fact that the EBT/SNAP program is up to the rafters in abuse. Cards are commonly bartered for drugs for example. This would end an enormous black market trade in what is supposed to be government charity for the indigent.
The problem with the food replacement is choice. With EBT you can choose to eat good food, or crap, or sell them for cash.
In a nutshell, the people against in-kind, direct nutrition distribution are PRO-CHOICE. Ironic, isn’t it?
OMG! He wants to bring back slavery!
“How dare Mr. Trump try to take food stamps away from hungry people and give them — of all things — food? “
Put me in charge and we’ll replace food stamps with...Shovels, rakes, mops and brooms, lawn mowers, paint brushes, chainsaws,...
The outrage is coming from Walmart, Safeway, Kroger, Giant Eagle, Food Lion, Kraft, Campbells, Hormel, Kelloggs, and all the other Big Food companies that will no longer have a way to sell to people who don’t have any money.
I was in line at Safeway recently and two young men in front of me paid for their Slim Jims, Red Bull and Snickers bars with EBT cards.
Of course the left blame “food deserts” for obesity among welfare recipients. Mean old corporate whitey not opening stores in areas where shrinkage, robbery and looting make doing so unprofitable, leaving mini-mart liquor stores the only alternative for food in da hood.
Hey Libtard ! This program delivers real food !
Okay, keep the food stamps but they’re only good at a federally operated food store that does not sell cigarettes or alcohol or snack foods.
"Cereal? What am I supposed to do with this?"
Us on the right have been saying this for years.
It is truly a win-win for everyone.
Instead of blowing the SNAP Card on Booze and Smokes you would get a monthly supply of:
50 lbs Bag of Red Beans & Rice
50 lbs Bag of Flour
10 lbs Bag of Powdered Milk
10 lbs Block of Cheese
10 lbs Bologna Log
And just because us Americans are super generous, I propose we also include two 10 lbs Bags of Generic Cheerios and/or USDA Corn Flakes.
There, the poor have just been fed by the Taxpayer.
They are stuck eating beans and rice you say? Think of it this way, every cent you give to the Federal Food Program is bread taken from your Child's mouth.
But of course you aren't suppose to take into account the needs of the people who actually pay for all this.
Wonder if the food deliverers will get an eyeful of the lexuses and Escalades in the driveway of the poor people.