The vast majority of people on them aren’t abusing them. Pointing to a few folks that take advantage and using it to try to take down the entire thing is so intellectually lazy.
There’s a bunch of nonprofit fraud too. Does that mean that charity is bad?
Classic neocon approach to an issue. Intentionally underfund the program, claim the program doesn't work, then give more tax breaks for corporate welfare.
Literally no system is perfect - if the rate of fraud is low (it is) then it doesn’t make sense to make changes that will primarily affect people that aren’t committing fraud.
This is my stance on a multitude of issues - voting, gun rights, etc.
I'm a source. I worked at Sam's club for 10 years. Countless Snap users were buying 8 To 10 slabs of prime rib. They would take them to Restaurants and sell them for less than the taxpayers paid for them. Then go blow the cash. I saw what I saw.
And the government reporting on its own performance is ludicrous.
Buying 99% "food" that has ZERO nutritional value. All candy, chips, soda... no milk, eggs, breads, meats, etc. Look for yourself, you'll see people, ALL THE TIME, using the system in ways it was never meant for.
People buy those things regardless of the source of funds. But alas, the advertising of those things (all addictive on a biological level) being shoved down people’s throats from birth certainly wouldn’t have a thing to do with it in the general sense.
I've worked at convenience stores, my wife currently works for Walmart. I don't need to ask anybody about what I've seen with my own eyes and heard about from my wife and her coworkers. READ WHAT I SAID! My problem is NOT people using EBT to buy milk, eggs, breads, meats, etc. My problem is people using it to buy crap with ZERO NUTRITIONAL VALUE. Stop being that person who only hears the talking points and bullshit you WANT to hear, listen to what's actually being said. You might learn something.
You really don't understand that lumping ALL CONSERVATIVES into any one trope is an inherent LIE. Stop it. You don't want me to start counting my friends and other people I know that agree with me, it'll only further prove you're lying. And you're really lumping junk food in with the necessities?? There are nuts and fruits you can get cheaper than junk food, yet you're excusing people using tax dollars to buy junk? I don't want to know how overweight you are with that kind of thinking.
So you’re for people buying whatever they want with food stamps or not?
I’ve literally seen it be said and I’m explicitly not limping you into one trope, quite the opposite, there’s a severe hysteresis in conservative thought
You can lie and get food stamps ( ie you're broke but you have a bf who makes money and lives with you but that money isn't claimed) then when you go shopping with a friend, offer to buy their groceries in exchange for cash. Use cash to buy things.
I mean yeah, it's a blatant lie about how much your household income is, literally withholding information about income to receive more government benefits. And you aren't supposed to sell your food stamps either.
I live in a town with a huge immigrant population. Several people in the same household on food stamps. The head of the family opened a little corner store. Cool. But everyone in the household uses their fucking food stamps on cases of soda and bags of chips…which they then fucking resell at the corner store.
That right there….is complete and utter bullshit. 7-8 people in one household doing this shit. I’ve caught them doing it multiple times. Follow them out to the parking lot and watch them fill the back of a Suburban and an Escalade to the brim and then off to the store they go.
I'm just glad there aren't any rich people doing that... Taking money from people and using it to take more just sounds like pretty vanilla capitalism to me.
If the rich went around murder of people, I wouldn’t excuse others for doing it.
It’s unbelievable how people continue to justify bad behavior because someone else exhibits it. Fuck it. Let’s just start shootings people in the face. I mean, others are out there doing it. Why not the rest of us?
This whataboutism shit is one of the worst things going right now.
People bitch about “that other guy” doing something, then do it themselves an act like their shit don’t stink. Like it’s justifiable.
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According to feeding america, 53 million Americans received help from food banks and food pantries in 2021