I am actually very involved as a volunteer in food bank operations as a way to give back to the community. So tell us RRY16 -- what do you do to give back to your community?
Why don't homeless people use food stamps? https://www.quora.com/Why-dont-homeless-people-use-food-stamps The problems with having a EBT or Link card when you are homeless are: You don't have any place to store your food purchases - If you buy more than dry foods or canned goods, you won't anyplace to store them to prevent their spoilage. Bulk purchases of food are difficult to carry and homeless people usually like to (or need to) travel light. They require an address - While in many cities this can be a shelter or group organization, many homeless people have mixed relations with shelters and groups. You can be (and you will be) robbed in the streets - The homeless are almost constant targets of crime and they can be relieved of their EBT/Link cards fairly quickly. Drugs & alcohol - An EBT/Link can't be used for the purchase of drugs or alcohol. Since many homeless people are substance abusers, the card may have limited value to them if they are on a bender and quickly deplete its resources. Prepared foods - While this would ideal for many homeless people, only a few restaurant chains and a few private restaurants accept the cards.This lack of flexibility can limit the utility of the cards. In the major cities this is slowly changing; in smaller cities and towns it is not happening as quickly.
Verifiable evidence is needed to believe anything from you.. your track record leaves a lot to be desired...I use to help at the VA Hospital in Lajolla and I pass out doobies to older folks in pain at a retirement community and sometimes drive them to the border so they can go into T.J. And purchase cheap meds.
Another GWB hates on the poor thread? Eric Prince of Blackwater, Betsy DeVos' brother has probably engineered this plan, that or another oligarch. This would mean billions in somone's hands.
Whatever Trump does the Left will denounce as racist then spin as a failure. POTUS could rescue a burning bus and Don Lemon would decry Trump first saving two white kids when a third of the kids were black.... Then he would cry about it, on air... 80-90 percent of Trumps reforms are fantastic. EBT abuse is just another mess in a long train of abuses POTUS intends to fix. Create jobs > kick tit suckers off the public charge = work bitch. Makes good sense.
The Trump proposal isn't the worst idea ever. I've always said if we're gonna foot the bill, then there should be strict restrictions to ensure only food stuffs are bought. I personally thought of government ran grocery stores for example. The problem of course is I can't trust this administration to do jack shit and added to that, the government has a worse record of running these types of operations than the private sector. To throw more fuel to the fire, these austerity measures aren't being done in good faith after seeing the tax cut bill and spending budget. In other words, the poor/middle class are sacrificing benefits for the rich & corporations in order to have some semblance of fiscal responsibility. In addition, a box of non perishables more than likely won't include fresh fruit and the like, and given the level of Republican corruption in government operations, we'll probably end up with trash food in those boxes anyway (sugary/unhealthy crap). After all, this is the party of 'no soda tax' and 'pizza sauce is a vegetable serving.'
Yes, the soda tax was such a success wherever it was implemented. Most of those against the soda tax aren't against it because of the unhealthy aspect of soda, but because of the fact that it's completely ineffective and only hurts local retailers.
How do they get the food now, it doesn't fall from the sky or magically appear? They can pickup prepared food boxes at grocery stores. Which may also assemble food boxes. In addition, the recipients can work 10 hours a week assist in the administration, assembly and distribution. At the same time learn a skill. Problem solved.