The most frequently bought foods on Welfare / Food stamps
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Study here - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13427729/study-welfare-food-stamps-SNAP-junk-processed.html
IMO Charity is not the role of government but if it absolutely must be done it should be on a temporary basis and it should be very basic food staples like dried beans, rice, potatoes, powdered milk, flour, sugar, cooking oil, and other staples.
If you want to eat better get a freaking job.
The same people are on public health care and they're eating in a way where they are getting diabetes and other health problems from their diet The taxpayers are already paying for so we can then turn around and pay for their health conditions.
I worked in a medical office. A woman on welfare would come for her diabetic check appointment with her 18-year-old daughter and the daughter's 2-year-old son for an appointment. All would be holding a McDonalds soda cup, yes even to 2yo, and then complain that she didn't have her $2.00 co-pay for her appointment. On top of that, one day the daughter came in with mom and had a brand-new Apple iPad tablet. When I ask her about it, she said she got it free for signing up to take GED classes. What a waste of taxpayer money, as she never completed any classes because she got pregnant again.
I agree with the overall principle here, but every single one of the “staples” listed (with the possible exception of the powdered milk—still questionable, plus nasty!) are the exact junk carbs and seed oils that are keeping these people forever physically and mentally sick and also dependent on public “health” care. Flour, sugar, seed oils, etc, are no different in your body if you cook them yourself or if they’re pre-made into something with fancy packaging. There is some benefit to avoiding other added chemicals, but this is still empty calories with minimal actual nutrition.
I agree completely that the current system is a train wreck, but the nutritional poverty of these “staples” still contributes to the overall problem. I am actually encouraged to see meats, milk, and eggs are high on the list.
I have been watching in my smaller, rural Caucasian town. The majority of people at the major grocery store pull out EBT cards to pay. Most purchase junk food, snacks, and beverages. Three or four out of 5 paying with EBT, choose the cash back option. It isn't unusual to see the cash go into the instant lottery ticket machine on the way out. I wonder what I would do with free money?
They let them cash out now? WTF? Had a girlfriend years back who got laid off in a shitty fashion so I told her to get food stamps, unemployment and every freebie possible... with enough explanation of where a third of my check went she reluctantly did. I didn't care that anyone judged me for making good money as I used her food stamps to buy crab and rib-eyes since it's my money they took to begin with.
Food stamps should be for staple food only.
Everyone on welfare should be drug tested every month and be forced to job hunt (like unemployment) every week. problem solved.
meh.. feeding Americans vs trillions to Ukraine and border crossers? Small change
Sure, but that is a 'different' crime.
Farmers market in the city selling fresh produce, eggs, chicken, milk etc. that offers free cooked meals, food and open bay military type barracks. Make panhandling illegal punished by work release on a farm and giving homeless money punishable by fines that go towards counselors and people working for this set up. No more vagrants, section 8, welfare, food stamps... it'd solve everything overnight. One single mom does daycare while the others work, junkies getting AA and NA meetings after working. Don't like getting up at 7 a.m. for inspections before going to shovel stalls, pull weeds or milk cows, GREAT, take an internship with the butcher or the maintenance team. In a wheelchair, you can be a cashier. Old? Go help teach the kids or run the library.
I would start an entire town dedicated to helping those who want to help themselves and probably turn a profit to reinvest in more across the country. I'd buy my groceries from a transparent organization promoting healthy living and second chances and tell every beggar to fuck off as I called them a ride to the farm.
Mine was to End the welfare queen (illegals) mentality and punish slugs, Yours is better for those who would work to be useful.
Precisely, mine helps those who need it and will make an effort to improve their own lives thereby giving us a clear conscience when we deport illegals, lock up habitual offender junkies and ignore single moms who "jus need white pepo to unastan how dificoat it is bein o color raisin babes all lone".
The government should never take someone’s money and give it to someone else for any reason whatsoever. The government has sticky hands.
Churches and other charities used to take care of the poor.
We've reached a point of no return where trillions are given to other countries, wars, and border crossers. At this point in time, I think giving all Americans bonuses and stamps is considered reparation for all the damages and what they govt have to make up for.
Bingo.
They don't have ramen (or "noodles" as they are called) on this list? I would think ramen would be the top of the list.
They don't eat like struggling collage kids.
When I was broke, but never on government assistance and didn't know about church charity kitchens that hand out food... ramen and Mac and cheese (that I made with water, yuck!) were at the top of my list. I lived on those. Now, 30 something years later, I discovered ramen again and it's pretty Ok. Different than it was 30 years ago! Boxed Mac and cheese though... still yuck.
I totally agree. Every now and then ramen sounds good. I haven't eaten mac and cheese in 20 years and I don't think I'll ever eat it again.
I stopped eating mac & cheese years ago, because of the astronomical carb count. Same for ramen.
Every one of you in this thread is crazy, I love Velveeta Shells and Cheese doctored up with milk, more cheese, jalapeños, ham etc. and I always have a variety of premium ramen from the Asian market. I was on the swim team and still swim a lot now so loading up on carbs and sodium is normal to me.
AND... you can dump other things into the mac-and-cheese or ramen like tuna, spam, vegetables, etc and stretch it out for more meals.
Cracking a couple eggs into chicken ramen with some bean sprouts and jalapeños was how I managed when I was broke. Complete meal with everything you need for about a buck... probably $2 now under the Biden regime. I couldn't tell you how much since I started raising my own chickens.
Yup they’re allowed to buy garbage. Sadly, they feed this to their kids, too.
As a foster mom in the past, I used this to buy formula and baby food (I had an infant placed in my home for 6 months). It did come in handy for his food but I paid out of pocket for all his diapers, toys and clothes. I was hoping to adopt this way but he was returned to his biological mom after 6 months. I felt he was mine after 2 weeks. I never fostered again after having to give this little guy back. It was heartbreaking
My 1st job ever was a grocery store in Baltimore. I was shocked what were in the carts, usually 2-3 per person, full of absolute CRAP. We were pretty poor and I used to think we didn’t get chips and pudding in our lunches because of money but it was always because my mom knew it was crap.
Is it ok to get on food stamps to recover some of the taxes/theft financial attacks that have been used on us???
You're stealing from future generations and potentially the elderly's social security and quite possibly your own.
If you need it temporarily and have no other option, go for it. But if you are doing it out of spite / bitterness then it will bare bad fruit.
I’ve known lots of people through the years at work that got redbulls and cigarettes with food stamps. They all would do the same thing, find a foreigner owned gas station that rings it up as “groceries” on their ancient register. Always pissed me off.
I can vision an actual need for help on occasion, but the people who make food stamps a lifestyle are dumber than rocks and eat absolute shit.
The problem when you put the government in charge of charity is they have to give it away blindly with no discernment to anyone and everyone that qualifies.
This used to be the sphere of the church and of course individual/private charity.
The advantage with private/church charity is they can see someone trying to manipulate or take advantage of them and cut them off or deny them. Something the government can't do.
Private charity is also much more efficient. There's not 10 layers of bureaucracy and employees as well as buildings and infrastructure costing untold amounts of money between the dollar that goes into the program in the $0.10 that comes out.
Private charity isn't handing out snow crab legs and filet mignon either.
No tortillas?
That's under bread
That's why welfare offices look like they could be on the season premier of "The Biggest Loser".
FYI snap is a huge money laundering scheme...
A worm can feed and house itself without arms, legs, food stamps or public subsidies . Why can't they?
Ever see a healthy person on EBT?
They need a price/ounce limit
This list isn't as bad as I thought it would be.
2-Milk, 3-Ground Beef, 5-Cheese, 6-Bread are all solid.
I think someone could do a lot of good for the country just by banning high fructose corn syrup in pop and soy/corn oil in chips.
Ground beef, fresh chicken, cheese, water, eggs, some lunchmeat are good for you though. A little ice cream is fine too. I don't get it. They're buying the same stuff as others