SNAP. ******? Yes!

IsaiahX · Dec 28, 2019

The Food Stamp Program is one of the most effective and reliable ways the government can provide a service to those in need. This article discusses how effective and efficient it really is.

According to the article, "USDA data show that over 98 percent of food stamp benefits go to eligible households." It also claims that food stamps are not overly generous, saying, "Food stamp benefits are based on the amount that USDA has determined is minimally necessary for households to purchase a nutritiously adequate diet. The average food stamp benefit is only about $1 per person per meal."

Furthermore, it states that, "The Food Stamp Program is efficiently targeted to reach the people that have the most difficulty affording an adequate diet: over 95 percent of food stamp benefits go to households with income below the federal poverty level. About 80 percent of benefits go to families with children. Virtually all of the remainder goes to the elderly and people with disabilities."

The Food Stamp Program is Effective and Efficient

IsaiahX · Dec 28, 2019

Sorry about the title. I didn't realize the word beginning with bad and ending with an alternate term for donkey would be censored. My bad.

Subduction Zone · Dec 28, 2019

I am pro-SNAP, but that article may not be fully accurate. I know quite a few people on food stamps and the amount, at least in Washington state is a bit higher. Here it ranges from a buck fifty to an extravagant two bucks a meal subsidy. I don't know about you, but I tend to spend a bit more than two dollars on a meal.

Second though there may be a low error in payout rates, many drug users do sell at least some of their food stamps for a little extra income.

Twilight Hue · Dec 28, 2019

IsaiahX said:
The Food Stamp Program is one of the most effective and reliable ways the government can provide a service to those in need. This article discusses how effective and efficient it really is.

According to the article, "USDA data show that over 98 percent of food stamp benefits go to eligible households." It also claims that food stamps are not overly generous, saying, "Food stamp benefits are based on the amount that USDA has determined is minimally necessary for households to purchase a nutritiously adequate diet. The average food stamp benefit is only about $1 per person per meal."

Furthermore, it states that, "The Food Stamp Program is efficiently targeted to reach the people that have the most difficulty affording an adequate diet: over 95 percent of food stamp benefits go to households with income below the federal poverty level. About 80 percent of benefits go to families with children. Virtually all of the remainder goes to the elderly and people with disabilities."

The Food Stamp Program is Effective and Efficient

I think food stamps is a great program as long as it's not abused.

Shadow Wolf · Dec 28, 2019

Ive had disabled clients who get amounts that basically translates into an impssible to use, slap in the face, dont spend it all in ine place amount. Myself, when I had them I got way more than I could use, and that was one person and before my knees started getting pretty bad. It definitely has problems to work out.

Brickjectivity · Dec 28, 2019

I agree its effective.

Abuse is not much of an issue. Lets not get angry over abuses of this program which is so cheap, so nearly invisible in cost, compared to everything else taxpayers are covering.

Needs to be more private when buying groceries and less like buying a lottery ticket. Its complicated at the register, slows down the line, draws attention. I'm glad I've never had to use them.

Subduction Zone · Dec 28, 2019

Brickjectivity said:
I agree its effective.

Abuse is not much of an issue. Lets not get angry over abuses of this program which is so cheap, so nearly invisible in cost, compared to everything else taxpayers are covering.

Needs to be more private when buying groceries and less like buying a lottery ticket. Its complicated at the register, slows down the line, draws attention. I'm glad I've never had to use them.

You might be a bit behind times. In most states one gets a card very similar to a credit card. One simply swipes it through the card reader (they do not have chips the last I saw) enters one's pin and one is done. There are programs that still slow down the line. You might be thinking of those WIC in Washington state is to help families with children. They are very limited as to what they can buy on that program. Some of the purchases are rather arbitrary. For example one can get apple juice but not "apple cider". Even though the ingredients read the same "100% apple juice" just having the word "cider" on a produce makes it so that it cannot be bought with that program. And canned tomatoes in all forms are okay but spaghetti sauce is not. Craziness.

Shadow Wolf · Dec 28, 2019

Brickjectivity said:
Abuse is not much of an issue. Lets not get angry over abuses of this program which is so cheap, so nearly invisible in cost, compared to everything else taxpayers are covering.

Unfortunately the myths of rampant abuse have been difficult to dispell. But when a group hates the poor and views them with disgust and contempt, its a long uphill battle against that malarkey.

Subduction Zone · Dec 28, 2019

Shadow Wolf said:
Unfortunately the myths of rampant abuse have been difficult to dispell. But when a group hates the poor and views them with disgust and contempt, its a long uphill battle against that malarkey.

It would help if those that supported the programs would admit that there is some abuse. Perhaps even significant abuse at times. The abuse does not come from those that need the program the most. It tends to come from drug addicts. I agree that rampant abuse does not exist. Significant abuse does exist. If we could fix the drug addiction problem that would all but disappear.

Shadow Wolf · Dec 28, 2019

Subduction Zone said:
It would help if those that supported the programs would admit that there is some abuse. Perhaps even significant abuse at times. The abuse does not come from those that need the program the most. It tends to come from drug addicts. I agree that rampant abuse does not exist. Significant abuse does exist. If we could fix the drug addiction problem that would all but disappear.

From the studies Ive seen I wouldn't even call it rampant abuse. It's there, but pretty low overall, far lower than I expected when I did look into it.

Subduction Zone · Dec 28, 2019

Shadow Wolf said:
From the studies Ive seen I wouldn't even call it rampant abuse. It's there, but pretty low overall, far lower than I expected when I did look into it.

I said that there was no rampant abuse. "Significant" was the term that I used and perhaps it needs to be defined. I don't know how one would put numbers on how much abuse there is of the system.

As a person that needs food stamps, either for food or even money, and they will not admit to abusing them. But if you know drug users you probably have been offered food stamps for sale.

And I seriously do not think that those with children are the problem. That would be very rare. Single people on drugs would be almost the entire source of abuse.

Brickjectivity · Dec 28, 2019

Shadow Wolf said:
Unfortunately the myths of rampant abuse have been difficult to dispell. But when a group hates the poor and views them with disgust and contempt, its a long uphill battle against that malarkey.

To be fair its artificially worse because of the war on hemp.

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