(July 19, 2014 at 4:24 pm)Heywood Wrote: What if you are a super shopper/couponer and only need $100 a month for food? Food stamps require you to buy $200 worth of food. So you lose a $100 dollars you could have used to buy something else to improve your lot even further(like diapers for instance). Just give the poor person $200 cash instead of food stamps and this waste goes away.
This is the system in the UK and it gets seriously abused. I have a friend/acquaintance that lives off his supposedly disabled kid. He has a top of the line PC worth £1000's and he and his wife smoke and drink to excess and neglect the kid and its siblings yet plead poverty constantly. I don't have any problem with them getting money to assist with the kids disabilities (not that he has any I can discern) but the i do with abuse of the funds.
