Food Stamp reform is as much about reforming the NEXT Generation of dependents as the current one.
We HAVE to stop making young people think it’s ok to get pregnant in your teens and spend your life on the dole.
I believe the U.S. have a “final safety net” for those truly incapable of fending for themselves. But it should be a net, not a freaking trampoline! Divorcing benefits from the ability to get off welfare and an honest sense of pride in doing an honest day’s work is one of the most debilitating things the government can do to a human being.
Box of rice.
Box of beans.
Box of cheese.
Box of powdered milk.
Once a month.
No Food Stamps.
The problem with the ‘pregnant and caring for children” exemption is that many women choose to have children to avoid work, spacing kids out appropriately or simply choosing NOT to use contraception.
If you’re on welfare, you need to be on long term fool proof contraception. If we have to pay for the kids, you can’t be allowed to have more.
An IUD or Norplant as a requirement the moment you sign up for food stamps, utility help, SSDI. If pregnant at that time, we don’t force an abortion, but you get the contraception the moment you have the baby.
And the contraception can’t come out until you’re off welfare, though you can choose to keep it in. Whether it is because you marry the father who supports the children or get a job on your own is your decision.
This would cut short term welfare costs significantly, and it would reduce long term welfare incredibly. Far fewer single mothers having kids, much less multiple children, the rest of us pay for.
OK, if you're on SNAP, you don't work.
The fact that you are not working means you are counted as unemployed.
Your being counted as unemployed raises the county's unemployment rate.
The higher local unemployment rate qualifies you to collect SNAP.
Did I miss anything?
How many generations of gibmedats should the taxpayers be expected to raise?