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Is it possible there are some SNAP recipients taking advantage of the system? I'm sure there are. Is the problem so bad that we need to make life harder for all the other people who truly need that assistance? No, absolutely not. I'm not losing sleep over the possibility that some people might be saving money on groceries. Let them have it. There are so many bigger issues to worry about.
They could weed out every single bad actor with perfect accuracy and I doubt it would cover the administrative cost processing all the re-applications.
I am sure more money would be saved by ending corporate ~~subsidies~~ welfare.
Obviously, but it's wrong to take money away from the nobility.
That's a different bucket, we clearly can't have the commons put their dirty hands in there.
You need to look at it like a Republican would:
See? It's a win/win for everyone who matters!
They say they have DATA showing fraud, so they absolutely could find any of the problems, and certainly there have already been procedures in place to do that. This is just an opportunity to make up a new issue and use it for cruelty. A good society takes care of its people, it doesn't make them crawl through hoop after hoop to survive.
The federal equivalent of asking "Is anyone abusing our Take A Penny / Leave A Penny tray". It's such a paltry amount of money with so many strings attached that anyone serious about abusing a federal system looks elsewhere. Why would I fuck with food stamps when I can get take a job at an investment bank that got in on the Trumpcoin scam or take six figures beating up the homeless as an ICE Agent? Hell, part time National Guardsmen get way better benefits than anyone accepting federal cheesebux. Or take a job at the state or municipal level doing any of a number of annoying bureaucratic tasks that guarantee a stable income and good benefits.
There are so many ways to get money out of the federal government if you're able-bodied, middle-aged, and sporting an IQ in the high double digits. Food stamps are for folks who can't be exploited or coerced into exploiting others on the state's behalf. You're kept at just above starving in hopes you can be roped back into the system somewhere down the line, but systematically abused by the bureaucracy to get you to jump off asap.
Mafiosos in the 60s and 70s were more generous to their neighbors than the Feds are with their benefits schemes. Its the last place you should look for fraud.
The SNAP system would probably be even cheaper if anyone could just apply for a card no questions asked. It's a farm subsidy anyway, so just make it 'the government will pay a chunk of your grocery bill so nobody has to go hungry'.
What fuck, state Oklahoma finally gave me my full amount this morning. I am not supposed to reapply until February.