Lmao Trump wants to replace EBT and food stamps with food boxes

[D3thr0n3d K1ng]

Full time teachers make too much money to qualify for food stamps.

"Grand Rapids teachers say pay cut qualifies them for food stamps"

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2013/03/grand_rapids_teachers_say_sala.html

"Your college professor could be on assistance"

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/in-plain-sight/poverty-u-many-adjunct-professors-food-stamps-n336596

"Pre-K teachers on food stamps after 10 years of work"

https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20...e-on-food-stamps-after-10-years-without-raise

"Hello class your professor is on food stamps"

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/kate-quick/professor-working-poor_b_4645217.html

Clearly all EBT users are deadbeats just trading them for drugs right?

 

[Gunny]

Fuckin baaaaaaarf
Government peanut butter is great tho imo

I suppose personal perspectives matter with this. I was a kid in Vermont in the late 70's - early 80's. Back then the Cabot Creamery was this small cooperative of local farmers who made sharp cheddar cheese for the local market. Same stuff as you can buy everywhere today but back then it was super cheap, came in these enormous cinder blocks and, to a young kid's taste buds, was absolutely disgusting! I was always resentful that my parents bought Cabot and figured they were just to cheap to spring for the good stuff - like Kraft or Velveeta. As a recall, government cheese seemed a reasonable middle ground between the two extremes.

 

[Steve-French]

So, because Americans subsidize other Americans food consumption, those receiving the benefit lose certain rights afforded to them by the constitution? Why not extend that to every single facit of Americans lives wherever they benefit from a public good?

That's not the point. The point is that these people need to be fed, so the government steps in and assists feeding them. So whats the problem if they get sent well rounded nutritional meals? It sounds kind of entitled and spoiled to turn your nose up at government assisted meals, because you don't want to eat your peas. Like I said before I'm fine with the current system, but would be fine with the one mentioned in the OP as well.

 

[Drenalin]

Grass fed potted meat ? Eco friendly canned carp ?

We can start feeding the needy Asian carp. That’s a win for everyone

 

[PHATV]

Have you ever had government cheese?

You mean the finest yellow American cheese the world has ever known? I have. Late 70s, early 80s. That was some damn good cheese. Came in that big cardboard box stamped USDA, if memory serves.

 

[Klippy]

This won't work. People prefer to pick their own food items.

 

[Drenalin]

No solution is going to be perfect if the intent is to get high or drunk. You simply can't stop trade. Any government responsibility simply can't stretch beyond providing the service. After a point personal responsibility has to come into play or you just set up government sponsored cantinas and people can go there to eat three times a day everyday on the governments dime / taxpayers dime.

This all boils down to the fact that people don’t need to rely on tax payers to eat. If you don’t believe me, explain the Amish

 

[Limbo Pete]

I suppose personal perspectives matter with this. I was a kid in Vermont in the late 70's - early 80's. Back then the Cabot Creamery was this small cooperative of local farmers who made sharp cheddar cheese for the local market. Same stuff as you can buy everywhere today but back then it was super cheap, came in these enormous cinder blocks and, to a young kid's taste buds, was absolutely disgusting! I was always resentful that my parents bought Cabot and figured they were just to cheap to spring for the good stuff - like Kraft or Velveeta. As a recall, government cheese seemed a reasonable middle ground between the two extremes.

Well, my experience with government cheese in the late 80'/early 90's was awful. Came in these big slimey bricks. And I mean slimey.
Sounds like the 70's cheese was pretty decent.

 

[Steve-French]

"Grand Rapids teachers say pay cut qualifies them for food stamps"

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2013/03/grand_rapids_teachers_say_sala.html

"Your college professor could be on assistance"

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/in-plain-sight/poverty-u-many-adjunct-professors-food-stamps-n336596

"Pre-K teachers on food stamps after 10 years of work"

https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20...e-on-food-stamps-after-10-years-without-raise

"Hello class your professor is on food stamps"

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/kate-quick/professor-working-poor_b_4645217.html

Clearly all EBT users are deadbeats just trading them for drugs right?

Wow... That's fucked up. Those must be some piss poor districts. Every teacher I ever knew throughout the years seemed to do alright.

 

[sickc0d3r]

How about people feed themselves? The government wasn’t created for handouts. Fucking disgusting that tax dollars go to this.

Wrong. It's a simple concept, really.

In exchange for excluding people from land that allows them to produce for themselves, and forcing them to participate in the market to make rent instead, we provide compensation when the market is not capable of ensuring everyone's basic needs are met.

 

[HunterSdVa29]

beggars shouldn't be choosers

have zero problem w/ this, will also speed up lines at the grocery store not having to wait for cans trying to illegally obtain things w/ Food Stamps or WIC. Not like they give you a book w/ directions and pictures ffs, oh wait

 

[bobgeese]

Nice.

 

[Limbo Pete]

"And my personal favorite, Green Eggs and the Gubment Cheese."

 

[cincymma79]

We need to make changes to our system
Propose any change except for Tripling funding, you hate poor people

 

[Teppodama]

This all boils down to the fact that people don’t need to rely on tax payers to eat. If you don’t believe me, explain the Amish

Oh, I agree. Not arguing that point.

 

[milliniar]

This all boils down to the fact that people don’t need to rely on tax payers to eat. If you don’t believe me, explain the Amish

The Amish are essentially communist communes...

Spoiler

well that's a stretch but they are their own communities and are for the most part self sufficient as the are stuck in the past

 

[KILL KILL]

We need to make changes to our system
Propose any change except for Tripling funding, you hate poor people

Defense spending is jumping to $713 billion and you didn't have a problem with it, but for some reason, EBT needs to "make changes to our system?"

This is a program that actually benefits Americans.

 

[kpt018]

I’m around these people every day. It’s a 60 apartment complex. I live there, I’m the manager & the maintanence man. I’ve been doing it full time for about 5 years

You’re clueless on welfare. Ask me anything you would like to know.

Sure, do you think people located in a 60 apartment complex are representative of the millions of people who get food stamps? You sound clueless on how statistics work.

 

[Drenalin]

The Amish are essentially communist communes...

Spoiler

well that's a stretch but they are their own communities and are for the most part self sufficient as the are stuck in the past

What about the mennonites?

 

[aitkenmike]

Based on he data you collected from?

Tell me how you think it is possible to make planning, adjusting for dietary requirements, sourcing, collating, packing, chilling, storing, shipping, storing and chilling or delivering CHEAPER than giving someone (a little less than is needed) money to spend and do make them do those things themselves.