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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What would happen if the people that cannot take care of themselves were told they would not get subsidies if they had kids, which they also could not take care of? This is no different than people of Africa. We see the faces of starving children, which are the offspring of the starving children we saw on TV back in the 60's and 70's.
I guess we feel it is "Nice" to give them enough to have more children and keep the horrible situation going generation after generation. When we do produce an exception, and one person goes to school and does good for themselves, they move away instead of helping the people they grew up with.
ALL people on subsidies, should be required to do SOMETHING.
