Originally Posted by
CX500T
Yeah
I've been at the check out at a grocery store when I was recently divorced and living paycheck to paycheck.
See a family unit with two carts. One full of food. But stuff I couldn't afford then. Steak. Lobster. Bags of fresh fruit.
Paid for with a SNAP card.
Second cart. Full of booze, junk food, and the guy gets four cartons of cigarettes. He pays cash.
I pay for my ground beef and potatoes. They are getting into a late model Cadillac SUV that has aftermarket rims that are worth more than my beat to crap pickup.
That was a fairly common sight at the grocery. I still see it once a month or so.
So yeah. I don't like paying for the allegedly destitute to eat better than I do while driving a new car.
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There's a good chance that person wasn't the intended recipient of the snap card, and rather they bought it from someone who needed money more than they needed credit toward a limited selection of groceries. Snap cards are one method of assisting the least fortunate among us; other forms of aid (cash) are extremely difficult to qualify for, despite the necessity of cash in our daily lives.
Some things snap cards can't pay for: doctor's/dentist visit for yourself or your children, clothing for yourself or your children, rent, electric bill, gas bill, school supplies, appliance repair, cleaning supplies, bus tickets, tail light repair, gas to drive to work, a bike to ride to work, tubes for your bike, a bike lock, etc...
There are numerous abusers of "the system"...but I don't know any system that isn't abused by someone. Unfortunately, this causes many to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
There are millions of good people who need help. If you want to understand welfare as it exists in our country today, I recommend "$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America." It's an enlightening read for anyone like me who hasn't had to live in or climb out of poverty.