I have mixed feelings about EBT cards, because I know disabled people who rely on them to supplement their food budgets. They aren't gambling or drinking, or smoking, either. They're just desperately trying to get by.
I know college students who used food stamps and WIC, etc., to feed their families while putting themselves through school too. I thought it was a good thing they were doing, too.
But I know where you're coming from with this, and I totally agree with you, that government giving out free handouts to all and sundry using OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY is a really bad thing for government to be doing.
If they would get out of the welfare business, they could get their deficit spending under control and balance the budget (well, they'd have to stop feeding the bloated military industrial complex so much money too), and--the cost of everything would come down to where MOST people could afford to live quite well.
Part of the problem is the breakdown in communities. Being on welfare for a limited time is one thing but when it becomes habitually ingrained in the culture, it becomes a lifestyle of dependency.
I have mixed feelings about EBT cards, because I know disabled people who rely on them to supplement their food budgets. They aren't gambling or drinking, or smoking, either. They're just desperately trying to get by.
I know college students who used food stamps and WIC, etc., to feed their families while putting themselves through school too. I thought it was a good thing they were doing, too.
But I know where you're coming from with this, and I totally agree with you, that government giving out free handouts to all and sundry using OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY is a really bad thing for government to be doing.
If they would get out of the welfare business, they could get their deficit spending under control and balance the budget (well, they'd have to stop feeding the bloated military industrial complex so much money too), and--the cost of everything would come down to where MOST people could afford to live quite well.
Part of the problem is the breakdown in communities. Being on welfare for a limited time is one thing but when it becomes habitually ingrained in the culture, it becomes a lifestyle of dependency.
Ditto