Great news for fiscal conservatives: the government is tying food stamps to recipients’ ability and willingness to seek some form of employment.
While it may be welcome news to those who feel we spend too much on a welfare program that does nothing but encourage dependency, liberals are aghast at the fact that the government is requiring food stamp beneficiaries to meet some very basic requirements before they get their assistance. While to most people this might seem reasonable, to them it is an unconscionable crime with few parallels in history.
Such hysterical reactions are all the more unwarranted when one actually looks at the the recently-introduced requirements. For able-bodied adults between the ages of 18 and 49 without children or dependents to continue participating in the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, they must work, volunteer, or take part in a job training program for at least 20 hours a week.
The new requirements, which went into effect this past Friday, can hardly be called draconian. But in spite of this, some are already projecting major decreases in the number of food stamp recipients across the nation, as beneficiaries cannot or simply refuse to follow the new rules.
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About F’ing time…
LOL that wouldn’t surprise me one bit. It is time to fix the mess,but you cannot just do it with food stamps, you got to do it with the crooks in our governement as well. Look at all the money they are taking from Tax payers. Heck,the government owes the social secuirty funds $2.8 trillion dollars that they took over the years. That is why they run it down like it is nothing but a pyramid scheme or other so they can abuse it like it is nothing to them,but free money.
Good lots more need to lose them people that really need them are denied all the time
The readers of Truth and Action are shaking in their boots at this article. They’re going to have to start working and give up their welfare.
This should go for the biggest welfare ecipiants of them all, Congress, no more freebies to them either.
No work no free food real simple next cut Section 8 housing and Welfare payments no work no free ride.
About time !
Wow. WORKING for your money? WHAT A CONCEPT!
Good work now they’ll just take yours
Trump is the light at the end of the tunnel