American dependency on food stamps
- Thread starter Tsing Tao
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I don't remember the $900 hammers, but I'm certainly not going to defend ANY previous administration's absurd spending habits. Government is ill-equipped to handle programs like SNAP. It should be outsourced, at the expense of the program's budget to a company that can properly monitor the benefit payments. Additionally, all lobbying done to get products on the list to be able to be purchased, should be eliminated. A product should only be on the list if it is considered a staple food. Instead, up to 50% of the program sees some type of fraud or purchasing of products that have no nutritional value. Additionally, luxury food items are purchased. The whole program is an epic disaster.
Oh, and I wanted to share this example I had in my personal life on SNAP fraud.
There is a director in my company who makes close to what I do (which is a very good salary). She is Chinese. Her parents live with her. But because her parents have no income, they get SNAP. They are dependents in her household - if they didn't have SNAP, they would be just fine, as her income supports them. But since they get the SNAP card and benefits, she shops with it.
We stopped at an Asian grocery store after lunch because she wanted to pick up some specialty item. I was appalled when she pulled out the SNAP card. She said "they are entitled to it" because of their income level. We drove back to the office in a heated argument, with even my liberal friend (who was also in the car and is a big democrat) trying to get her to see the irony in her words and how this was essentially fraud.
There is a director in my company who makes close to what I do (which is a very good salary). She is Chinese. Her parents live with her. But because her parents have no income, they get SNAP. They are dependents in her household - if they didn't have SNAP, they would be just fine, as her income supports them. But since they get the SNAP card and benefits, she shops with it.
We stopped at an Asian grocery store after lunch because she wanted to pick up some specialty item. I was appalled when she pulled out the SNAP card. She said "they are entitled to it" because of their income level. We drove back to the office in a heated argument, with even my liberal friend (who was also in the car and is a big democrat) trying to get her to see the irony in her words and how this was essentially fraud.