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Liberals Furious That Trump Wants To Replace Food Stamps With Actual Food
2018-02-14
[DAILYWIRE] In his big budget proposal on Monday, President Trump offered a novel idea: Instead of giving people in need government stamps they can redeem for food, why not just give them actual food?
Ah, the good old days...
As you might guess, liberals were enraged by the notion. How dare Trump try to take away food stamps from hungry people and give them — of all things — food!
Yep. Used to actually have to go down to the firehouse to pick the stuff up. We didn't have a car, so we had to walk the whole way there and back. Musta been six, seven blocks!
Here's how the liberal HuffPost saw it: "Facing a trillion-dollar deficit because of his just-passed tax cuts, President Donald Trump has an idea for how to get some of that money back: making poor people eat beans and rice."
It wuz terrible! No potato chips! No Fritos. Instead we got flour, powdered eggs, lard, butter, Spam. canned pork and gravy. You can't eat that stuff right outa the container!
Oh the humanity!
Mom had to spend time unwrapping stuff and cooking!
Currently, food stamps — known officially as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) — are provided for some 42 million people, 80% of whom get food vouchers each month worth at least $90 per person. They can be redeemed at many stores for food, but the program is rife with abuse.
You could eat on a block of cheese for six months. But it just wudn't Cheetos. I did trade one once for a baseball bat. We had a half dozen of them, couldn't eat 'em fast enough. We didn't have indoor plumbing, but with that much cheese, did it matter?
Posted by:Fred

#23  I have zero doubt that this would raise, not lower food stamp expenses. The idea that government can distribute food more efficiently than for-profit retailers just doesn't square with anything I've read (or experienced) about the performance of government agencies vs the private sector.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2018-02-14 22:57  

#22  kind of like being a baby-mama - used to be an item of shame but now its a badge of honor, 'sacrifice' and heroism...

Thanks hollywood...
Posted by: CrazyFool   2018-02-14 16:43  

#21  There was a time when folks didn't want be seen as surviving on foodstamps. It was a matter of pride, of carrying your own weight. Now its a right and a lifestyle. Sigh.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2018-02-14 16:38  

#20  Well you know when a mre and a fema really like each other they get together and rip off their wrappers and ... oh wait... this is a family site right?

I suspect a fema meal is a FEMA version of the mre. Think T.V. dinners, but produced by the government's lowest-cost producer. Glowing blue sauce and all...
Posted by: CrazyFool   2018-02-14 14:51  

#19  FEMA meal is probably like Ricochet Biscuit - "...if it don't bounch back, you go hungry"
Posted by: M. Murcek   2018-02-14 14:46  

#18   I know what a mre is,but what is a fema meal. I read somewhere that a zillion of them are missing in Puerto Rico. Posted by Bman

Fema meal? Search me Bman. Sounds slightly erotic. If you find out, let me know.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-02-14 14:25  

#17  I know what a mre is,but what is a fema meal. I read somewhere that a zillion of them are missing in Puerto Rico.
Posted by: Bman   2018-02-14 14:22  

#16  I remember in my youth visiting some guys who, though able bodied, had somehow gotten themselves on welfare. They had a big, maybe a gallon sized can of some kind of processed meat product. Some people might call it baloney or lunch meat. I'm sure it wouldn't hurt you or make you sick. It would probably keep you alive if there was absolutely nothing else. But I can see how that would be an incentive to get off welfare because that stuff was gross.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2018-02-14 13:10  

#15  In my neighborhood there is a convenience store inside a gas station where they proudly display a sign that says EBT Cards Accepted. Apart from my misgivings about EBT cards in general I wouldn't have a particular problem except for one thing. The gas station is in the same strip mall as a big super market. Now you know that people will use their EBT cards for junk food in the convenience store because that's pretty much all the convenience store has to offer. What's worse is that the same junk food will cost a lot more in the convenience store than it would in the super market. To put it mildly, this is wasteful.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2018-02-14 13:03  

#14  Where is the shortfall, except the decrease in corruption?

Isn't that enough?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-02-14 12:19  

#13  Drone delivery.
Local schools.

A local warehouse.
Posted by: Clem Kadiddlehopper9000   2018-02-14 11:42  

#12  WE no loner subsidize farmers to not grow crops, we use the AAFES logistics system to move government food products to their regional warehouse systems, and then on to military bases. Local food banks connect directly with the AAFES warehouse centers for bulk food pickup, and free distribution to those entitled. Less subsidy, no cash for criminal fraud of EBT, robust enhancements of existing logistical system, enlargement of local, often religious based charities of every denomination, or none for that matter. Where is the shortfall, except the decrease in corruption?
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2018-02-14 11:12  

#11  This is another area I know all too well. I remember hauling many a block of yellow gubmint cheese on the back of my bike growing up. This move is an incentive to get off welfare, which is why (as DV notes) the libs hate it.
Posted by: Raj   2018-02-14 11:01  

#10  As I said yesterday, purveyors of cigarettes, alcohol and lap dances are up in arms or legs or tatas...something!
Posted by: Warthog   2018-02-14 10:41  

#9  Of course they are mad.

This is how they bribe their voters.
Posted by: DarthVader   2018-02-14 09:42  

#8  Who says you can't eat lard right out of the container?
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2018-02-14 09:39  

#7  The 60's 'government' Peanut Butter was really very good. You actually had to mix the peanut oil back into it before spreading. And there were few, if any, additives.

None of that homogenized cr*p.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2018-02-14 09:04  

#6  Keep the Food Stamps, simply route the application process through the Veteran's Administration.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-02-14 08:23  

#5  Craiglist 'for sale' section hardest hit.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-02-14 08:22  

#4  For welfare in general, make em show up to actually punch in and out. They don't have to stay all day, but try must show up, on time, to punch in and out every weekday. The majority of em couldn't even manage that...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2018-02-14 07:25  

#3  Give’em MREs.
Boost the industry.
Posted by: Skidmark   2018-02-14 07:11  

#2  The first thing I look at is if the logistics chain is not available. What happens then?

Posted by: newc   2018-02-14 00:28  

#1  Local Stop-N'-Rob selling beer under the counter hardest hit?
Posted by: magpie   2018-02-14 00:15  

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