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2018-02-14 Government
Liberals Furious That Trump Wants To Replace Food Stamps With Actual Food
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Posted by Fred 2018-02-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ]  Top

#1 Local Stop-N'-Rob selling beer under the counter hardest hit?
Posted by magpie 2018-02-14 00:15||   2018-02-14 00:15|| Front Page Top

#2 The first thing I look at is if the logistics chain is not available. What happens then?

Posted by newc 2018-02-14 00:28||   2018-02-14 00:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Give’em MREs.
Boost the industry.
Posted by  Skidmark 2018-02-14 07:11||   2018-02-14 07:11|| Front Page Top

#4 For welfare in general, make em show up to actually punch in and out. They don't have to stay all day, but try must show up, on time, to punch in and out every weekday. The majority of em couldn't even manage that...
Posted by M. Murcek 2018-02-14 07:25||   2018-02-14 07:25|| Front Page Top

#5 Craiglist 'for sale' section hardest hit.
Posted by Procopius2k 2018-02-14 08:22||   2018-02-14 08:22|| Front Page Top

#6 Keep the Food Stamps, simply route the application process through the Veteran's Administration.
Posted by Besoeker 2018-02-14 08:23||   2018-02-14 08:23|| Front Page Top

#7 The 60's 'government' Peanut Butter was really very good. You actually had to mix the peanut oil back into it before spreading. And there were few, if any, additives.

None of that homogenized cr*p.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2018-02-14 09:04||   2018-02-14 09:04|| Front Page Top

#8 Who says you can't eat lard right out of the container?
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-02-14 09:39||   2018-02-14 09:39|| Front Page Top

#9 Of course they are mad.

This is how they bribe their voters.
Posted by DarthVader 2018-02-14 09:42||   2018-02-14 09:42|| Front Page Top

#10 As I said yesterday, purveyors of cigarettes, alcohol and lap dances are up in arms or legs or tatas...something!
Posted by Warthog 2018-02-14 10:41||   2018-02-14 10:41|| Front Page Top

#11 This is another area I know all too well. I remember hauling many a block of yellow gubmint cheese on the back of my bike growing up. This move is an incentive to get off welfare, which is why (as DV notes) the libs hate it.
Posted by Raj 2018-02-14 11:01||   2018-02-14 11:01|| Front Page Top

#12 WE no loner subsidize farmers to not grow crops, we use the AAFES logistics system to move government food products to their regional warehouse systems, and then on to military bases. Local food banks connect directly with the AAFES warehouse centers for bulk food pickup, and free distribution to those entitled. Less subsidy, no cash for criminal fraud of EBT, robust enhancements of existing logistical system, enlargement of local, often religious based charities of every denomination, or none for that matter. Where is the shortfall, except the decrease in corruption?
Posted by NoMoreBS 2018-02-14 11:12||   2018-02-14 11:12|| Front Page Top

#13 Drone delivery.
Local schools.

A local warehouse.
Posted by Clem Kadiddlehopper9000 2018-02-14 11:42||   2018-02-14 11:42|| Front Page Top

#14 Where is the shortfall, except the decrease in corruption?

Isn't that enough?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-02-14 12:19||   2018-02-14 12:19|| Front Page Top

#15 In my neighborhood there is a convenience store inside a gas station where they proudly display a sign that says EBT Cards Accepted. Apart from my misgivings about EBT cards in general I wouldn't have a particular problem except for one thing. The gas station is in the same strip mall as a big super market. Now you know that people will use their EBT cards for junk food in the convenience store because that's pretty much all the convenience store has to offer. What's worse is that the same junk food will cost a lot more in the convenience store than it would in the super market. To put it mildly, this is wasteful.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2018-02-14 13:03||   2018-02-14 13:03|| Front Page Top

#16 I remember in my youth visiting some guys who, though able bodied, had somehow gotten themselves on welfare. They had a big, maybe a gallon sized can of some kind of processed meat product. Some people might call it baloney or lunch meat. I'm sure it wouldn't hurt you or make you sick. It would probably keep you alive if there was absolutely nothing else. But I can see how that would be an incentive to get off welfare because that stuff was gross.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2018-02-14 13:10||   2018-02-14 13:10|| Front Page Top

#17 I know what a mre is,but what is a fema meal. I read somewhere that a zillion of them are missing in Puerto Rico.
Posted by Bman 2018-02-14 14:22||   2018-02-14 14:22|| Front Page Top

#18  I know what a mre is,but what is a fema meal. I read somewhere that a zillion of them are missing in Puerto Rico. Posted by Bman

Fema meal? Search me Bman. Sounds slightly erotic. If you find out, let me know.
Posted by Besoeker 2018-02-14 14:25||   2018-02-14 14:25|| Front Page Top

#19 FEMA meal is probably like Ricochet Biscuit - "...if it don't bounch back, you go hungry"
Posted by M. Murcek 2018-02-14 14:46||   2018-02-14 14:46|| Front Page Top

#20 Well you know when a mre and a fema really like each other they get together and rip off their wrappers and ... oh wait... this is a family site right?

I suspect a fema meal is a FEMA version of the mre. Think T.V. dinners, but produced by the government's lowest-cost producer. Glowing blue sauce and all...
Posted by CrazyFool 2018-02-14 14:51||   2018-02-14 14:51|| Front Page Top

#21 There was a time when folks didn't want be seen as surviving on foodstamps. It was a matter of pride, of carrying your own weight. Now its a right and a lifestyle. Sigh.
Posted by rjschwarz 2018-02-14 16:38||   2018-02-14 16:38|| Front Page Top

#22 kind of like being a baby-mama - used to be an item of shame but now its a badge of honor, 'sacrifice' and heroism...

Thanks hollywood...
Posted by CrazyFool 2018-02-14 16:43||   2018-02-14 16:43|| Front Page Top

#23 I have zero doubt that this would raise, not lower food stamp expenses. The idea that government can distribute food more efficiently than for-profit retailers just doesn't square with anything I've read (or experienced) about the performance of government agencies vs the private sector.
Posted by Zhang Fei 2018-02-14 22:57||   2018-02-14 22:57|| Front Page Top

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