Originally posted by carpedm9587
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As a result, it is rife with fraud and misuse, and does little to ensure that people are getting good food.
I do totally support government initiatives to see that people have good quality food available to them in their areas for easy purchase. Obviously the US has a big problem with regard to the fact that there are huge corn subsidies for historical reasons and that has led to HFCS being put into just about every product leading to very unhealthy diets for the general population.
It's a great example of how the left has a tendency to create programs that foster dependence rather than solve problems.
Obviously if a person is poor to the point where they are struggling to afford food, giving them food stamps pretty self-evidently solves a pretty major problem for them - they can now buy food. That is an inherent good in all sorts of ways. If and when they are no longer poor (due to having got a job or whatever) they no longer need help purchasing food and no longer get food stamps.
Of course, I would argue both that the fact that the US food stamp program ceases to give food stamps to a person after a set time period even if they still need them, is self-evidently immoral and evil, and also argue that poor people probably need a lot more help than merely food. They probably need money for other things, they probably need help finding a job, they probably need housing assistance etc. The US social safety net looks pretty woefully inadequate compared to the rest of the Western world, and the US right-wing seems to me totally morally culpable for deliberate and ongoing sabotage of it.
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