Trump’s Commonsensical Food-Stamp Rule
National Review,
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Editors
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
12/5/2019 4:38:41 AM
Our food-stamp program has some bizarre loopholes in it, and the Trump administration is trying to close them. A new rule finalized today attacks one in particular.
In theory, the program has a strict time limit for “ABAWDs,” or able-bodied adults without dependents: If they don’t meet their work requirement or receive a case-by-case exemption from their state, they may receive food stamps for at most three months in any 36-month period. But in practice, the executive branch has broad discretion to waive the limit for large geographic areas with weak labor markets — and previous administrations used that discretion promiscuously.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Sunhan65 12/5/2019 5:18:04 AM (No. 253112)
Good article.
So, "Never Trump" in practice turns out to be "Sometimes Trump." As in: Sometimes President Trump does things that National Review really likes. The kinds of things that Hillary Clinton would never do. Who would have won the 2016 election if we had listened National Review.
Everybody makes mistakes. However, serious people accept responsibility for their errors, correct them, attempt to understand the reasons for them, and try to prevent them going forward in the future. Bill Buckley's anti-Semitism issue, comes to mind.
Until National Review publishes a serious attempt to come to terms with their total failure to represent the conservative movement and agenda effectively in 2016, I cannot take them seriously. That will never happen as long as Rich Lowry remains in charge. He's an intellectual and ethical lightweight whose tenure has being a disaster for our once-treasured flagship magazine.
For that, and for so many other reasons, I miss William F. Buckley Jr.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
IowaDad 12/5/2019 6:18:47 AM (No. 253130)
The lives of obese people are shortened by eating too much food. One requirement for food stamps should be that the recipient actually benefits from having more food, in other words, is not overweight.
Obesity is slightly more prevalent in food stamp recipients than the general population. My tax dollars should not be wasted on adding to that obesity.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
udanja99 12/5/2019 7:44:56 AM (No. 253228)
2 Thessalonians 3:10
For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/5/2019 7:48:35 AM (No. 253231)
Obama is going to get his back up over this move because he expanded the program and he was proud of it. Another legacy down the drain.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Clinger 12/5/2019 8:19:23 AM (No. 253274)
I object to the entire concept. This bulljive approach to avoid any shame in not carrying your own weight in society breeds sloth. Show up and get fed a healthy meal and leave. If you are too lazy to get off your keester or are too good to be seen in public accepting charity (yes it's still charity even if its a government program) then you can eat my shorts. Of course this is for the able bodied.
Cripes, you could leverage such a thing into a job fair and training opportunity. The slingers of hash could come from the ranks of the needy.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 12/5/2019 8:45:58 AM (No. 253311)
Obie will not be happy about this. He knew that the masses would slobber all over him if he controlled what they could eat and when they could eat. One of the best forms of Operant Conditioning there is.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
kidsmom 12/5/2019 9:10:01 AM (No. 253343)
I blame LBJ for the whole food stamp mess. His War on Poverty hijacked what was, rightly, the domain of religious institutions to care for the poor among us. Churches and their extensions (CRS, Salvation Army, etc.) were, and are, uniquely positioned to give immediate aid without creating a culture of dependency. Accepting "charity" meant that someone else contributed to the fund, and amounts that were given to recipients were limited. While imminently grateful for aid, no one wanted the label of being a "charity case," so most recipients were expected to find jobs in short order. All that changed when LBJ replaced "charity" with "government." Suddenly it was no longer a short term gift but an ongoing stipend--an incentive to stay unemployed. Tough to try and put that genie back in the bottle. Kudos to Trump for trying.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
felixcat 12/5/2019 9:24:57 AM (No. 253370)
I cannot shop at my local grocery store without being asked as I am checking out if I would like to contribute to some end-the-hunger charity. My small town outside Northern Virginia has a large and very well-stocked food pantry. You just show up and say you need some food and you get a nice selection and a large quantity. You don't have to show an ID, unemployment voucher. Nothing. I know this because my husband use to volunteer ther and got sick of being part of the "poverty industry." There is no reason to even have a federal food giveaway program anymore with all the local charities that exist. And besides, who was the last person to die of hunger in this country besides Karen Carpenter?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Speedypetey 12/5/2019 9:31:48 AM (No. 253384)
My favorite is the story of the Taxachusetts EBT debit cards being used at beach resorts in Hawaii. The voters are too full of themselves to even see that their fourth in the states running for high tax burden killing their retirements.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
udanja99 12/5/2019 9:42:02 AM (No. 253397)
#8, I used to live near you and my moment of awakening occurred at my church when I was on the committee which decorated for special seasons and events. We were in the middle of preparing for Christmas and the church was giving away all of the ingredients for turkey dinners to “the hungry”. Every single person who came in to collect a dinner was obese. That is when I quit caring about hunger in America.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Kafka2 12/5/2019 12:08:04 PM (No. 253546)
Since President Trump established a labor market where anybody that is able to work can find a job, the three month limit for getting food stamps makes sense.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Harlowe 12/5/2019 12:11:32 PM (No. 253551)
As commanded by St. Paul: The “Golden Rule of Work” – “For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.” (2 Thessalonians 3:10)
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
RedWhite&Blue2 12/5/2019 1:16:41 PM (No. 253620)
Fat, lazy, and illegitimate is no way to go through life.
Use birth control and get to work!
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