“I’m old enough to remember when being on food stamps was a bad thing.”
It’s only a bad thing if you’re able bodied and they should not be given stamps.
For the disabled, it is the only option in a civilized society. Yes, many people do fake it but the legiminately disabled should not suffer because of them.
Yes, many people do fake it.
No it isn’t.
There was a time religious institutions took care of the poor, and they did it just as well.
The purpose of government involvement in charity is to buy votes and curry favor.
Paying for food is not an enumerated power of the Federal Government.
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Food Stamps are chump change compared to SS Disability fraud.
I have trouble sleeping, here’s your check for Life.
I’m stressed out, here’s your check for Life.
I’m a Drug Addict, here’s your check for Life.
No, government assistance is not the only option in a civilized society. In a civilized society families, friends, churches, fraternal organizations, etc. would assist the disabled. Only in an UNcivilized, Marxist dominated society do government bureaucrats stick their ugly noses into the matter.