NO! Truly needy starving people are not going to be kicked off this program. Of course, in America there aren't that many starving people here.
Here are the facts: https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/trump-agency-uncovers-one-largest-food-stamp-fraud-bribery-schemes
Trump agency uncovers 'one of the largest' food stamp fraud, bribery schemes
With the assistance of the FBI and U.S. attorney’s office, six individuals have been criminally charged with a bribe and fraud scheme that generated more than $66 million in unauthorized transactions under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), otherwise known as food stamps. The defendants — Michael Kehoe, Mohamad Nawafleh, Omar Alrawashdeh, Gamal Obaid, Emad Alrawashdeh and Arlasa Davis — are accused of "conspiracy to steal government funds and to misappropriate U.S. Department of Agriculture benefits," according to a press release.\
Starting in 2019, the indictment states that Kehoe created a network that supplied 160 unauthorized electronic benefit transfer (EBT) cards to stores across the New York area, to illegally process more than $30 million in EBT transactions.
"This fraud was made possible when USDA employee Arlasa Davis betrayed the public trust by selling confidential government information to the very criminals she was supposed to catch. Their actions undermined a program that vulnerable New Yorkers depend on for basic nutrition," U.S. Attorney Perry Carbone said in the media release. "That is no longer going to be allowed here in Washington, and with these programs like the food stamp program. So we're going to move forward, obviously in partnership with the FBI, with the Department of Justice, of course our team at USDA. This is not the 'one and only,’" Rollins said. "There are going to be many more to come, and we're gonna make sure that we're delivering on our promises to the taxpayers."
Nobody who actually needs those food stamps will be cut off. But those who have defrauded the program have been arrested. They're going to prison, hopefully.
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@Heartlander Work at a grocery store and see how much junk foods gets purchased with Food Stamps. It’s a lot. Anyone hollering about it is probably the ones buying all that junk food. They’ll start telling how they won’t be able to a get their child a birthday cake for their birthday and those types of stories. If it was all that important to them they could bake it at home with their own pantry foods and have a nice cake. That’s what I always did when my daughter was growing up. Couldn’t afford to buy bakery cakes for what my wages paid.
Understand. Kids can become obese for $15 a week in junk food.
Why convenience stores are authorized to accept food stamps when 90% of their merchandise is junk food is beyond me. The argument is that restricting popular items would be to treat them as 2nd class citizens.
Haven't checked lately, but Aldi has long been critisized for the way they display their junk food within the first 10 feet of entry. Long before getting to the fresh produce.
Also, convenience store merchandising is typically handled under contract, so stuff like beer, soft drinks and snack racks are managed by the distributors and not the stores themselves. The stores than can get by with one employee while the contract suppliers rotate the merchandise to maximize profit. Convenience stores sell convenience, a place to pick up a 6-pack while tanking up, or a donut and coffee on the way to work. While adults have the freedom to decide for themselves, a goo moral question is whether kids should also have that choice?
@Heartlander The Aldi stores I go to have their produce right in front of the entrance door. That’s why I mainly go to Aldi anyway. The children are not only getting obese but some are developing diabetes type II at a young age and other problems like high triglycerides or high cholesterol.
And I heard a convenience store owner brag on how much money he used to make every month and so did his friends who owned convenience stores. It was from cold medicines used to make meth. They were ordering a huge amount of cases of it every week and their customers were buying it by the case, week in and week out. The store owners knew what it was being purchased for. Then they outlawed selling large quantities of it in stores so that ended it
@Heartlander Well, that is generally because the poorest in society have the fewest options about where to shop (owing to supermarkets not investing in poorer neighbourhoods and lack of transport). Obesity can be an indicator of plentifulness, but in children it is more like to signal malnutrition.
@cherokeepatti Aldi had long been critisized for all the cheap junk food up front, I believe to the point of being hammered in exchange for tax abatement or TIFs. Yea, Type-2 diabetes at the age of 10 should be everyone's wake-up call. I prefer Aldi to Walmart in general, a big Walmart advantage though is how they intergrated home delivery to make it fluid.
One interesting Aldi memory is their store in an inner city area where they had to hire a security guard to manage the carts. Turn your back with an empty cart for a second and someone night snatch it to get that quarter :)
Well, that is generally because the poorest in society have the fewest options about where to shop (owing to supermarkets not investing in poorer neighbourhoods and lack of transport). Obesity can be an indicator of plentifulness, but in children it is more like to signal malnutrition.
Those fewer options are in part a result of of codes, regulations and laws that favor people with more money or richer communities. For example, building codes that require a 50 year old building to be brought up to current code if any improvements are made. That expense may overwhelm a business catering to a poorer community leaving to business no option but to let the building and facilities just continue to deteriorate, which in turns brings down the neighborhood further, eventually turning the neighborhood to no option but to bull-doze it.
