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This is not even close to the same. People on food stamps spend substantially less on vegetables and fruit. More on frozen food, desserts and sweetened beverages. Their diet is even more terrible than the typical American and taxpayers are subsidizing bad behavior. [/quote]

And the reason for that has already been explained many times. Fresh fruit and vegetables don't keep, they take time, skill, and a stocked kitchen to prepare, and many low income people use food as pleasure/entertainment since they cannot afford additional activities.

You're being willfully obtuse. Why us it easier for you all to believe a whole contingent of the population chooses to act entirely illogically, than it is for you to believe the mechanics of our society are broken in such a way that their unfortunate choices are the result of them trying to survive that broken system? Do you honestly, in your heart of hearts believe that people WANT to live this way?[/quote]

“Wanting to live this way” and willing to make positive changes to improve your lifestyle are not synonymous. There needs to be a a cutoff somewhere because right now too many people are getting welfare that don’t deserve it. Of course there are some people that genuinely come on hard times, but the % of SNAP recipients taking advantage of the system and getting benefits is too high. I especially have a problem with giving more benefits to people that continue to have children they can’t afford. There should be a two or 3 child limit for welfare benefit calculation purposes. Anything above this threshold and no additional money. [/quote]

So your proposal is that in America, the supposed greatest country on earth, where we have enough resources to feed and house everyone if we had the political will, should allow children to go hungry because they happen to be number 3 or 4 in the birth order?

And if you had any idea of the hoops and means testing that goes into qualifying for benefits. There is no huge percentage of people collecting benefits that don't need it. Quite the opposite. The systems are so poorly constructed and so complex, a lot of people aren't getting benefits they absolutely should qualify for.

I truly hope you never find yourself in poverty. You're so dumb and misinformed, I doubt you could survive it. [/quote]

Someone people are not willing to help themselves and they don’t deserve help. If don’t have a full time job and they aren’t disabled they should not get assistance at all. I used to be like you and sympathize with people, but after  volunteering at places to help these people, I realized many of them just make bad decisions. [/quote]

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