Yup. You posted that, Little Donald. It was like…what? the 43d version of your story? Other versions didn’t include your SO being sick.
Protip–if you’re going to try to make up excuses for scamming Dopers, pick one story and stick to it, don’t just keep making stuff up and seeing if it gets you off the hook.
Nope, not getting drawn into your bullshit again. Howl all you want, I can’t hear you.
Having been on the EBT program, I can tell you this is also going to have a very bad negative effect on the recipients. I least I could choose what I wanted to eat, in a lot when my life choices were extremely limited.
Food baskets given out by private places are fine, but I need to be able to have some foods that I really like.
Back in 1970 when my wife and I were newly married and poor, we had a welfare mother living in the apartment above us. She got commodities including powdered milk and bulgar, neither of which she would use.
IIRC, she got five twenty quart boxes of milk every month. We gave her a buck a piece for them. At the time, store-bought powdered milk was probably around $3.00 for a twenty quart box. The bulgar she just gave to us. My wife didn’t know what to do with it so she went to the library and looked up recipes for it. For the last 48+ years we have a few very hearty winter meals using bulgar. We saved a fair amount that way.
Commodities have been tried. Food stamps are easier.
Also, food stamps are often used in conjunction with state run WIC (women infants children) programs. Those programs have a highly restricted food list. In my state (NY) they used to give out coupons for specific items -2 quarts fresh juice, 1 gallon whole or skim milk, a dozen eggs. Now it looks like it’s a card based system but limited to a small list of healthy foods.
Most families I know that use food assistance get their staples from WIC coupons and use the food stamps for other food. Along with their own money. I don’t know anyone that gets a full food stamp ride. I think my brother gets food stamps to the tune of $25 a month.
Today’s brilliant plan calls for putting a cap on how much people can borrow for college as a means of controlling the cost of college.
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Oh yeah: that sounds like a logical plan that will totally have that effect.
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We should try that with mortgages in order to keep the price of houses down.
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There’s about 5% of point there, in that to some extent colleges are raising rates because they know that students can get loans to cover the cost. Of course, that appears to be more of a problem at the for-profit institutions that DeVos and Trump love, but true at legit schools also.