Bring Back Food Stamps and Get rid of the Food Debit Cards

They could also force people to purchase certain goods just as they did in 1939 with the blue stamps.

Stop with the cards and the stamps. Just give food!

Yeah thats a great Idea.. Cuz I want to see someone walk into wal=mart with a 100 food stamp and by something for 2 dollers and get 97 back in real cash.. yeap thats the best idea I have EVER seen on GLP.. OP you smart is shining

good luck with that. for the most part the work is not there, or these are single mothers. but often they can also be illegal aliens.

Ok you just give food so how do people pay for electricity, of fuel for cars or transport for job interviews, or even second hand clothes or shoes. If you don't give people anything or a means to earn a living then many will turn to crime and you will have a more violent unsafe society is that really a price worth paying.

the first cut comes jan 1st, 2013, $1.2 trillion. Food stamps won't be cut but 'farm price supports' will be.

It's all going down the crapper and that's been the plan all along....

The food stamps, I worked in a groery store before the cards, people were given food stamps as change and the only "money" they would get would be the coin change.

Problem with these were there was no way to tie what was bought to the person and they were sold at a rate of 2:1, this can still be done with the cards though.

The best Idea is to force them to buy certain products only, Staples that must be prepared and actually cooked.
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Like was said also food lines, they are only holding the couch to the floor waiting for the 1st of the month check, they can stand in a food line just the same if they want to eat.

That doesn't work for the homeless who have no place to cook sadly.

If you want a nanny state so badly then have the stores quit selling junk foods to everyone. That stuff is poison.

Those stamps were just as problematic as a card is today. When the welfare program in this country was first instituted back in the days of the new deal, if you or anyone in your household were receiving food stamps, or any government help, it's because someone in your household was performing work for the government. Weather it was building infrastructure or many of the other projects the new deal can claim credit for, those people worked for that "hand up" not a "hand out". Because they were working, albeit for the feds, those people still had their sense of pride. In today's world of endless handouts, nobody it would seem is required to get off their ass and do much, except for making more babies, (the next generation of democrat voters) it would seem that the sense of pride has been traded in for the wonderful mindset of entitlement. We could issue all the different forms of handout moneys we want, but how would any of these help or fix anything. We sincerely need to start putting all of the handout collectors to work, so that we could get back to providing a hand-up. Besides it's no secret that as a whole our infrastructure in the U.S. is crumbling, and we are cutting jobs in those categories across the board right now. Hell every time I go grocery shopping here in Oregon, it seems all I see are absolute able bodied young punk type males with their ghetto fab girlies with full buggies and purchasing with E.B.T.. Why are we not putting these dudes to work?


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This idea is based on the assumption that fresh foods are somehow cheaper than the processed HFCS laced shit, but the opposite is true.

1 dollar buys approximately 250 calories of fresh fruit and vegetables, but it can buy 1100 calories of unhealthy, fat saturated, HFCS sweetened crap.

Forcing people to buy fresh fruits, grains, and vegetables with their food subsidy accomplishes what??? Starvation perhaps???

Forcing them to eat healthy will ultimately save more than that dollar in medical costs!

You kidding me? I lived in da 'hood when food stamps looked like monopoly money.....it was the defacto cash of the ghetto....everything from drugs to pussy could be bought with it....hell they use them to pay the car services.....

this^^

But it'll never happen because JPM is in tight with the govt.

I dont know how it is in other states but all I can buy with mine is food that can be cooked and prepared. I cant buy hot food or prepared food. Sometimes it would be nice to be able to stop and get a fresh roasted chicken on the way home so I dont have to cook when I get out late and dont have much time to cook before getting the kids to bed, but I understand the reasoning so its not an issue. I buy only healthy stuff since I dont give my kids sugar or junkfood. No canned spaghetti, etc. I buy the noodles, meat and sauces and make a huge pot and put whatever we dont eat that night into containers for me to reheat later instead. I dont buy the $1 sugar juices in the gallon jugs, I buy v8 splash and v8 frusion and all flavors of cranberry juice. My 7 yr old loses weight on his medicine so I spend alot on protein shakes, 1 each night, so I can try to combat the weight loss :(

I honestly do need the help. My son has issues, and has weekly appts with the occupational therapist and behavior counselor, which means I cant work full time since I have no help. I dont get cash assistance or SSI, all I have is my $800 a month which barely covers rent and power. So without food money I couldnt feed my kids healthy. What I get doesnt even make it the month most times since the healthy stuff is sooo much more expensive then the junk. I could get 3 or 4 gallons of that sugar water juice at publix for the price of ONE v8.. And I could get 1 and a half gallons of regular milk for the price of ONE half gallon of almond milk.

Its sad and I see how america has gotten so obese and unhealthy, its just cheaper to eat shitty than healthy