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Trump proposes restricting choices for food stamp recipients
« on: February 12, 2018, 10:47:09 pm »
Trump proposes restricting choices for food stamp recipients
By Luis Sanchez - 02/12/18 05:28 PM EST

President Trump's new budget would severely restrict the kinds of foods that food stamp recipients could buy with the government assistance.

Recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — SNAP — receive a monthly supplement that offers help purchasing food.

But Trump's proposal would require people who receive at least $90 a month from the program to get about half of their benefits in the form of a “USDA food package,” rather than by purchasing the food themselves, NPR reported.

The proposed change would affect more than 80 percent of people enrolled in SNAP.

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Re: Trump proposes restricting choices for food stamp recipients
« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2018, 10:56:26 pm »
The plan has already been criticized by a number of groups, with critics saying the cuts would reduce help available to the poor. Opponents of the cuts also point out that the physical delivery of the food would pose a challenge for the government.


Name the groups.  I'm willing to bet they loved Michelle O's terrible school lunch program.
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Re: Trump proposes restricting choices for food stamp recipients
« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2018, 10:58:44 pm »
Sorry if you are on Food Stamps, you should not be using it to buy steaks or lobsters. Just the basic food.
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Re: Trump proposes restricting choices for food stamp recipients
« Reply #3 on: February 12, 2018, 11:09:52 pm »
He is right. We should go back to the days of bare essentials. Pastas, veg, affordable protein, rice and beans, basic soaps and toilet paper.

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Re: Trump proposes restricting choices for food stamp recipients
« Reply #4 on: February 13, 2018, 01:24:53 am »
Another supplemental idea considered in the Trump package.....


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Re: Trump proposes restricting choices for food stamp recipients
« Reply #5 on: February 13, 2018, 01:38:04 am »
   Maybe it's just me but this is the umpteenth article since the he signed the budget last week that has 'vague sources' talking about some type of entitlement reform, red meat to his starving base.
   I suspect his internal polling is bleeding profusely from another self inflected wound.   
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Re: Trump proposes restricting choices for food stamp recipients
« Reply #6 on: February 13, 2018, 02:04:27 am »
   Maybe it's just me but this is the umpteenth article since the he signed the budget last week that has 'vague sources' talking about some type of entitlement reform, red meat to his starving base.
   I suspect his internal polling is bleeding profusely from another self inflected wound.   
   Money Talks, BS Walks.

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Re: Trump proposes restricting choices for food stamp recipients
« Reply #7 on: February 13, 2018, 03:52:38 am »


Something I have been advocating for a long long time.  You could deliver the food... or do like the WIX program and give a voucher for certain items in certain quantities.

Oh, and please, anyone on a means tested bennie..... does not get to vote.

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Re: Trump proposes restricting choices for food stamp recipients
« Reply #8 on: February 13, 2018, 04:25:03 am »
Sorry if you are on Food Stamps, you should not be using it to buy steaks or lobsters. Just the basic food.

At least that shit is nutritious. The garbage I see losers buying with their EBT cards is insane. 10 bags of Doritos, 6 pack of Tabb and a carton of Lucky's. It's ridiculous.

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Re: Trump proposes restricting choices for food stamp recipients
« Reply #9 on: February 13, 2018, 05:05:48 am »
At least that shit is nutritious. The garbage I see losers buying with their EBT cards is insane. 10 bags of Doritos, 6 pack of Tabb and a carton of Lucky's. It's ridiculous.

Carton of Lucky's??  Tobacco isn't allowed?
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Re: Trump proposes restricting choices for food stamp recipients
« Reply #10 on: February 13, 2018, 05:09:31 am »
Anyone remember gov't handing out 5lb. blocks of cheese? 
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Re: Trump proposes restricting choices for food stamp recipients
« Reply #11 on: February 13, 2018, 05:09:50 am »
Carton of Lucky's??  Tobacco isn't allowed?

From what I can tell, whatever they buy at a grocery store or bodega is allowed. I've never seen these dopes pull out any other cards or cash to buy their shit.

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Re: Trump proposes restricting choices for food stamp recipients
« Reply #12 on: February 13, 2018, 05:14:33 am »
Anyone remember gov't handing out 5lb. blocks of cheese?

Absolutely. My grandmother and bunch of neighborhood church ladies would make a day of going to get govt' cheese. It was free for old people and old people love free no matter what. It was like a social event. I also remember it tasting like shit and she didn't like cheese that much so it would get tossed in the garbage.




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Re: Trump proposes restricting choices for food stamp recipients
« Reply #13 on: February 13, 2018, 06:02:46 am »
Absolutely. My grandmother and bunch of neighborhood church ladies would make a day of going to get govt' cheese. It was free for old people and old people love free no matter what. It was like a social event. I also remember it tasting like shit and she didn't like cheese that much so it would get tossed in the garbage.



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Re: Trump proposes restricting choices for food stamp recipients
« Reply #14 on: February 13, 2018, 06:14:07 am »
The plan has already been criticized by a number of groups, with critics saying the cuts would reduce help available to the poor. Opponents of the cuts also point out that the physical delivery of the food would pose a challenge for the government.


Name the groups.  I'm willing to bet they loved Michelle O's terrible school lunch program.

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Re: Trump proposes restricting choices for food stamp recipients
« Reply #15 on: February 13, 2018, 06:22:35 am »
Speaking of Michelle, I want to hire the guy who painted her official portrait to paint my official portrait.

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Re: Trump proposes restricting choices for food stamp recipients
« Reply #16 on: February 13, 2018, 07:02:27 am »
Sorry if you are on Food Stamps, you should not be using it to buy steaks or lobsters. Just the basic food.

My Mom worked as a supermarket cashier back in the 50s and 60s.  It irritated her to no end to have to ring up an order with top of the line steaks and  lobster, and in the end the customer would pay with food stamps.   Meanwhile, my parents, who both worked, could only afford hamburger and tuna fish.

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Re: Trump proposes restricting choices for food stamp recipients
« Reply #17 on: February 13, 2018, 07:09:25 am »
Anyone remember gov't handing out 5lb. blocks of cheese?

My Dad went to one of those giveaways.  Even brought home butter too.  My mother told him if he brought that [expletive] home again, she was going to throw him and the butter and cheese out. The cheese was phony American cheese, but most brands like Kraft at least try to duplicate real cheese. The "cheese" Dad brought home wasn't even close.  It really looked and tasted like yellow plastic.    Yuk!
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Re: Trump proposes restricting choices for food stamp recipients
« Reply #18 on: February 13, 2018, 07:48:50 am »
From what I can tell, whatever they buy at a grocery store or bodega is allowed. I've never seen these dopes pull out any other cards or cash to buy their shit.

Yes in some small market areas I can see owners risking some deals like in the video below. I personally have never seen EBT used to buy cigs or alcohol (but have seen it used to buy the material for mixed drinks minus the alcohol).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PasuoWVhqtc


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Re: Trump proposes restricting choices for food stamp recipients
« Reply #19 on: February 13, 2018, 07:52:33 am »
My Dad went to one of those giveaways.  Even brought home butter too.  My mother told him if he brought that [expletive] home again, she was going to throw him and the butter and cheese out. The cheese was phony American cheese, but most brands like Kraft at least try to duplicate real cheese. The "cheese" Dad brought home wasn't even close.  It really looked and tasted like yellow plastic.    Yuk!

I remember it (cheese) as actually pretty dang good. Grandmother got it after she got cancer (early 70s).
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Re: Trump proposes restricting choices for food stamp recipients
« Reply #20 on: February 13, 2018, 08:32:18 am »
I think rice, beans, canned milk and some other basic items should be free (perhaps a limit on how much you can take at a time). No excuse for anyone to starve in America. No credits, no cards, no government programs, no scams. Much cheaper to administer and hunger is then a choice.

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Re: Trump proposes restricting choices for food stamp recipients
« Reply #21 on: February 13, 2018, 09:23:41 am »
Another supplemental idea considered in the Trump package.....

Lol...The Big Mac BOGO program.  Endorsed by President's Trump and Clinton.

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« Reply #22 on: February 13, 2018, 12:09:58 pm »
Carton of Lucky's??  Tobacco isn't allowed?

There a local stores and bodegas that will let EBTcard holders. It beer and smokes.

They just ring it up as a food item that's the same or similar price.
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Re: Trump proposes restricting choices for food stamp recipients
« Reply #23 on: February 13, 2018, 12:26:11 pm »
At least that shit is nutritious. The garbage I see losers buying with their EBT cards is insane. 10 bags of Doritos, 6 pack of Tabb and a carton of Lucky's. It's ridiculous.


I have a feeling they are kinda overweight.
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Re: Trump proposes restricting choices for food stamp recipients
« Reply #24 on: February 13, 2018, 12:58:20 pm »
There a local stores and bodegas that will let EBTcard holders. It beer and smokes.

They just ring it up as a food item that's the same or similar price.

Very possible and likely in small independent stores and bodegas. Chain grocery stores and stores like WalMart and Target, not likely because of the electronic cash registers.

I worked at a Weis Markets in the late 80's and if someone had WIC or was paying food stamps the system would automatically deduct non-eligible items from what could be tendered with them and then a separate balance that had to paid in cash.
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