Able-bodied single people who are on SNAP is a complex situation that I don't think this administration understands. For one, this will impact more people in rural areas who are out of work and having trouble finding a job because of the limited opportunities in their region. Moving somewhere with more jobs takes money.
SNAP is keeping some of these folks from being homeless, the friends or family members they are likely living with may turn them out when they no longer have SNAP to contribute.
Some of these unemployed able-bodied people are doubling as unpaid caregivers, like the guy who lives with his elderly mom who has diabetes and drives her everywhere and makes sure she takes her shots when she's supposed to.
Some of them use their SNAP to make sure their kids are fed even if they're not there and can't pay child support.
And that's not even taking into account the economic impact on low-income communities (particularly in the Appalachians). Or the possibility of crime spikes when some of the former recipients become desperate.
The ripple effect from taking away their SNAP is going to be huge, and bad. I suppose it will motivate the small percentage who could get a job anytime they want and just prefer to bask in the luxury of subsistence government support; but I think it will cost more than it saves in the long run, in more ways than one.
SNAP is keeping some of these folks from being homeless, the friends or family members they are likely living with may turn them out when they no longer have SNAP to contribute.
Some of these unemployed able-bodied people are doubling as unpaid caregivers, like the guy who lives with his elderly mom who has diabetes and drives her everywhere and makes sure she takes her shots when she's supposed to.
Some of them use their SNAP to make sure their kids are fed even if they're not there and can't pay child support.
And that's not even taking into account the economic impact on low-income communities (particularly in the Appalachians). Or the possibility of crime spikes when some of the former recipients become desperate.
The ripple effect from taking away their SNAP is going to be huge, and bad. I suppose it will motivate the small percentage who could get a job anytime they want and just prefer to bask in the luxury of subsistence government support; but I think it will cost more than it saves in the long run, in more ways than one.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
