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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I respect that you support SNAP benefits, and I agree that helping families who are struggling to afford food is important. But supporting the idea behind SNAP doesn’t mean we should ignore the serious problems in how related funding is being managed.
There is corruption and inefficiency behind some of these federal nutrition programs, and pretending everything is working perfectly does a disservice to the very people SNAP is supposed to help. If the system were functioning the way politicians claim, we wouldn’t still see food banks overwhelmed, families waiting in long lines, and working people relying on donated meals just to get through the week.
Supporting SNAP shouldn’t mean automatically defending every layer of bureaucracy surrounding it. It should mean making sure the money actually reaches families — not getting lost in administrative waste, questionable contracts, or programs that sound good on paper but fail in practice. When people talk about these issues, they’re not attacking SNAP itself; they’re calling out a system that needs transparency, accountability, and reform.
If we truly care about fighting hunger, we should be willing to look honestly at where the funding goes, where it’s failing, and who benefits from the inefficiencies. Real support for struggling families means fixing what’s broken — not pretending everything works just because a particular political party says it does.[/quote]

Yes, SNAP has its issues - fraud, administrative overhead and so on.  But in comparison to the private sector, SNAP actually has significantly less fraud (1-2% for SNAP vs 5-7% for private sector), administrative overhead (5-7% of program cost vs 15-40% in private sector).  In the grand scheme of things, SNAP, Medicare and other government programs are run more tightly and with less overhead than much of the private sector in comparison.  And, the problems that do exist are fixable.  It's deranged that Republicans want to use those issues as rationale to throw the baby out with the bathwater even knowing that the private sector has a far worse track record.[/quote]They run with low overhead because they are not looking for fraud.  So lower numerator and higher denominator.[/quote]

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