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Who here wants to cut back on a farm bill
SNAP and school lunches, etc is funded through agriculture spending bill. My terminology may be incorrect but when people hear what the govt spends on agriculture they think farmer welfare not school lunches and snap.
Who here wants to cut back on a farm bill
I have a relative that is on snap, along with many other things. The dog and cats drink the milk and other items. She trades (not sells) food for steak, gas, babysitting, etc.
Are you wanting me to reference those in this thread that want welfare cut back or are you wanting to bring up those that want crop insurance cut? Guess I'm not grasping if you seriously think there's no one on ST that's NOT for whittling down on ag spending......
You said it's the popular opinion. I have no idea what you're talking about or who you're talking about.
Is this after you've searched for the past threads talking about farm subsidies and read them or are you wanting me to do that for you?
Tell you what.....we'll just say you were talking out of your ass and leave it there
Chump, Cosmic Cowboy, Pelican, Borat, Manny, You know what? it, because you've posted in those threads.
Lol Manny?
im admittedly not knowledgeable to have any sort of opinion on this... but yeah would be curious to see the cost/benefit analysis of having food delivered to the door. Generally seems like a good idea to have better control over what goods are/aren't made available through subsidies
Not sure why just cutting things like soda and ribeyes off the list can't be done. Why does it need to be packaged and delivered?
It doesn't need to be delivered. They can come pick it up from a set location, but they worry it might "stigmatize" the recipients.
There is still tons of food stamp fraud at ice houses though. They'll carry SNAP approved goods no one really buys at extremely inflated prices so they can ring up beer and cigarette purchases as food purchases on peoples' Lonestar cards. I would like to see a good portion of SNAP benefits given as actual food. I know you can't do that with fresh veggies and meat so I wouldn't zero out the card benefits, but I would definitely be in favor of the government providing pasta, canned veggies, tomato sauce, beans, cheese, and such directly as opposed to seeing so much of this money going into alcohol and tobacco.
gotta be dead food-like pathogenic with a long shelf / logistics life, so no fresh food.
Give them WIC-type vouchers for their fresh meats and veggies. Done and done.
Still..."it will stigmatize them..."
Why do poor Americans eat so unhealthfully? Because junk food is the only indulgence they can afford
But parents were also constantly bombarded with requests for junk food from their kids. Across households, children asked for foods high in sugar, salt and fat.
While both wealthy and poor kids asked for junk food, the parents responded differently to these pleas.
An overwhelming majority of the wealthy parents told me that they routinely said "no" to requests for junk food.
An overwhelming majority of the wealthy parents told me that they routinely said "no" to requests for junk food.
Next to all the things poor parents truly couldn't afford,
junk food was something they could often say "yes" to.
Poor parents told me they could almost always scrounge up a dollar to buy their kids a can of soda or a bag of chips.
So when poor parents could afford to oblige such requests, they did.
Honoring requests for junk food allowed poor parents to show their children that they loved them, heard them and could meet their needs.
As one low-income single mother told me: "They want it, they'll get it. One day they'll know. They'll know I love them, and that's all that matters."
Junk food purchases not only brought smiles to kids' faces,
but also gave parents something equally vital: a sense of worth and competence as parents in an environment where those feelings were constantly jeopardized.
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed...______20180215
They could max value the items.
Been a long time since I was a kid working cashier at heb but I seem to recall that's how it goes with WIC
Bingo. Why didn't Trump think of thatGive them WIC-type vouchers for their fresh meats and veggies. Done and done.
Still..."it will stigmatize them..."
They break the items up into smaller packs and sell the small packs for the inflated prices.
Well yeah that's why you would put a cap on each item.
Like WIC
this has been a long time coming. should've always been this way and not how it is to date. for christs sake you can use an EBT card at jack in the box.
i know a dude my age, still lives his parents in a huge house and is taken care of by them, has no job and never has, wastes his parents money on everything under the moon like consoles and vacations... yet this dude, sporting a prada backpack, has an EBT card. wtf?!
No you can't, dumbass.
https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/lo...ly-5578566.php
under tanf and not snap... still an EBT card!
Can you actually?
I dont think that's true. I thought the deal was you could only buy frozen goods, bread, milk and that's not served hot like you're in some restaurant.
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