Liberal hand-wringer Stacy Dean from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities complained to CNN that President Trump’s Food Stamp Program Reform proposal is “a risky scheme that threatens families’ ability to put food on the table.”
…by giving them actual boxes of food that they can put on the table.
Maybe she wants the government to give everyone a table as well?
The government giving you actual food was the way was done originally, I think; I don’t mean the free cheese program; I mean way back. The way it’s done now should be more efficient, if you can get to the store and back you can get food (–note well should & if).
Wait, the article points out that the USDA would be buying food wholesale, not retail; and just half of your benefits (to give you some flexibility, I guess). That’s a whole other ball of wax. (They could just negotiate prices like Medicare/Medicaid does with doctors. That would be fun; we’d probably all starve to death after the government puts the grocery stores out of business or there would be about four grocery chains left, with two price tiers, retail and USDA.)
In the early 60s we had what was called the surplus program. I remember going with my mother to a government warehouse where we would be given boxes (4 brothers and sisters) of surplus peanut butter, cheese,powdered milk, powdered eggs, a canned meat product similar to spam, and flour. By the time food stamps came around our financial situation had improved to the point we never got them. White privilege I guess.