😱 Food Stamps (SNAP) getting cut 😱 - Page 5

Mominohio · ‎08-08-2010

@chrystaltree wrote:
The number of churches that provide free meals on a daily basis are practically non existent. Very few churches can afford to do and very few do. Yes, there are food pantries but they aren't grocery stores. They don't exist to provide a week's worth of groceries on permanent basis. They do what they can but they can't feed all of the people will suffer from this move. It's very sad that a country that never seems to run out of money to send to any and every country in the world can't feed it's own people. Let me change that. Won't feed it's own people.

The solution is to teach people (all over the world and here) to feed themselves, then have the expectations that they (mostly, with only the most desperate falling through the cracks and helped) do so.

It really isn't any different than raising kids. When there are expectations and requirements, and you stick to them, they find a way to make it happen.

Mominohio · ‎08-08-2010

@Noel7 wrote:
25% of American military families use food stamps. That's from a 2014 report, I have read it's gone up since then.

@Noel7

You have mentioned this (or someone else did) in other threads, and this is simply disgusting.

No military family should ever receive food stamps. They should be so highly paid they wouldn't even come close to qualifying, then double that salary.

hckynut · ‎03-10-2010

@missy1 wrote:
1 person gets 194, 2 get 357 and 3 get 511 and so on. Why does a single person get more?

Assuming that single person is an adult? And #2&#3 are little kids? My guess is the adult may eat more.

hnj

hckynut(john)

Mominohio · ‎08-08-2010

@occasionalrain wrote:
I can't speak to other communities, but the food bank in my community does provide a week's worth of groceries including fresh produce. The churches each take a night of the week to provide a complete dinner for anyone whether they are poor or just lonely, no questions ask, no forms to sign, no proof of anything.

We live near a city of about 50,000, and it is getting more poverty stricken all the time. Yet there is still the things you mention there as well.

What I often see is that people who need a free meal, often think what is offered at the churches isn't good enough. They really expect to go out to a restaurant or buy what they choose from the store with food stamps.

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

@Mominohio wrote:
@Noel7 wrote:
25% of American military families use food stamps. That's from a 2014 report, I have read it's gone up since then.
@Noel7

You have mentioned this (or someone else did) in other threads, and this is simply disgusting.

No military family should ever receive food stamps. They should be so highly paid they wouldn't even come close to qualifying, then double that salary.

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@Mominohio

We totally agree here

DH and I were a military family. Luckily we had no children at the time and I worked and made a good salary. But I came to know a lot of other military people, families, for whom it was a daily struggle, and it seems nothing has changed.

We ask those men and women to be ready to give their lives for us and many do. When they are in that position they should not have to worry about how they will continue to put food on the table.

Mominohio · ‎08-08-2010

@SeaMaiden wrote:
@willdob3 wrote:
This is horrible. Seriously.

@willdob3 ITA! I have been hungry at one point in my life and it was awful......in this country NO ONE should go to bed hungry EVER! With all the tax waste.... Just stop even a small bit of where our taxes are wasted and misused and make sure every American citizen or any hungry human being gets a meal. We need to make that a priority. Not cut back services. With all the problems in this country, hunger can be one problem we can fix. There is plenty of food.

This I agree with. There is so much wasted food in this country, but I don't want to look the the ineffective and inefficient government to figure it out, or it will never be done or done efficiently.

Private businesses and organizations, and individuals changing their habits and practices could go a long way here. I have a sister in law that throws away perfectly good food if it has been in the house more than a day or two. If people like her would just donate the same amount they waste, we could probably feed the world.

Mominohio · ‎08-08-2010

@loveschocolate wrote:
We had a neighbor on SNAP. He actually approached us one day. He said if we gave him a list he would buy our groceries for us using SNAP, in return he wanted us to give him cash. We said "sorry, no thank you".

People think this type of abuse is just the minority, but I would bet the ranch it is significantly more than many could ever imagine.

And wonder why those who work hard, just above the poverty level, get so frustrated. It makes much more difference in their struggling life than someone on the more prosperous end.

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

@Kachina624 wrote:
@Noel7 I no longer have access to the charts used to determine poverty level. They defined "family income" and listed the income allowed for the family (defining family member) based on family size. I managed the training and employment component of a program, coordinating with the State department of human services in Texas. Had all all information at my fingertips back then.

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Thanks, @Kachina624

I know that happens, we have it in our head but the source is not at our fingertips now

loveschocolate · ‎05-11-2012

@hckynut wrote:
@loveschocolate wrote:
We had a neighbor on SNAP. He actually approached us one day. He said if we gave him a list he would buy our groceries for us using SNAP, in return he wanted us to give him cash. We said "sorry, no thank you".

Are you surprised? Take your neighbor times millions doing the same thing. Cards work for cash in an ATM in a gentleman's club.

hnj

@hckynut, no, not surprised at all.

Mominohio · ‎08-08-2010

@SeaMaiden wrote:
@loveschocolate wrote:
We had a neighbor on SNAP. He actually approached us one day. He said if we gave him a list he would buy our groceries for us using SNAP, in return he wanted us to give him cash. We said "sorry, no thank you".
And so he is why others should be punished?

This is just the fact of life, there is only so much of anyting on the planet. When some others waste/abuse it, there isn't/won't be enough for others at some point. Someone (lots of somone's, eventually) will be 'punished'.