Thread: UA for Public Assistance?

It sounds reasonable to me. I'd also appreciate it if the food stamp program was run more like the WIC program, in which the aid recipient is limited to FOOD that has a decent nutritional value. I'm disgusted at the extent of JUNK calories (not food) purchased by food stamp card holders. Chips, cookies, and soda should not be provided by the government. It just increases the health care costs that we are also forced to provide for so many leaches.

I can only dream for such a thing here in the People's Republic of California.

I think I cannot wait for the next election so I can vote against the 'new' governor. His popularity, or the lack of it , is at about 29% last I heard. He is making a bad situation in this state worse as far as the economy goes. Interesting that he is worried about welfare recipients ...... when he was a CEO for a company that was fined 600 million $ for bilking Medicaid out of even more. Here is an interesting article.

I really hope the ALCU loses this suit. I saw it yesterday and was pretty stoked but it I think it was Minnesota (or maybe Michigan, one of them "M" states) that had something like this a year or three back and the ACLU won that . I'd also like for SNAP/EBT cards to be only good at the grocery store/farmer's market. Our local farm market actually offers $20 worth of veggies for $10 worth of food stamps to benefit eligible folks.
However, one of the gas station chains (Sheetz, to be specific for you folks in the mid-atlantic) accepts them for food. Not totally sure but they seem to have figured out a way to get around things so now you have people spending $5 on a sandwich that they could have bought a whole loaf of bread and jars of PB&J with... annoys me greatly.