Tuesday - October 02, 2007
Food Stamps for the (somewhat) Poor
This morning I was commuting to work, when the news said something that damn near gave me an aneurism. Apparently the federal government has just granted $600,000 to the state of Utah so we can give out more food stamps. Then they quoted some lady from some BS organization like Utahns Against Starvation (arch-nemesis of Utahns For Famine) or something, and how she was saying how super-dooper this was, because there are so many Utahns that are eligible for food stamps, but don’t know it, and how now they can educate them, so that even more people can get government assistance, so that way nobody will go to bed hungry… These are people that make a decent living, but they still qualify for handouts.
WTF?
I’ve seen some of the poorest people in America. I was a Mormon missionary in what was considered one of the most impoverished areas of the entire country. I spent a bunch of time in innercity Birmingham and Montgomery, and then saw the rural poor in places like Corinth, Mississippi and areas like that.
And even there, there weren’t exactly people starving. Even people on every form of government handout imaginable had TVs, phones, and air-conditioning. Even in the nastiest projects in Birmingham, (which if you’ve seen Black Hawk Down, you know approximately what the Brickyard looked like) there wasn’t exactly a famine. And if somebody was starving, it was because they were whacked out of their heads on crack, meth, and huffing paint.
Starvation? How many people actually die of starvation in America? And then if you take things like child abuse and people lost in the woods out of the equation, how big is the number? What, four?
Not only that, but the poorest people on food stamps I ever saw still managed to buy name brand things like Pepsi and Doritos. Wheras I grew up dirt ass poor on a dairy farm, but we worked for a living, so didn’t get crap from the government except for an occasional kick in the groin, and I grew up eating generic Chippos and drinking Shasta. We did eat lots of steak, but that usually involved me killing it myself.
Oh, but the report got better......
Posted by Drew458
on 10/02/2007 at 08:44 PM
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