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You guys want to talk about food stamps, here we go. I was just like every other poor person in this country. I was a kid that came from the ghetto I came from a family full of drugs and mental health issues. my mom was a crack addict and she did nothing but live off of welfare for her whole natural life until she died in 2021 at the age of 63. At 17 on my own, I was on food stamps I was on all the assistance you could get, besides what I got from my father for child support which I used to pay my way with rent and utilities. my father was kept out of my life BECAUSE being on welfare was just a better situation for my mom. Well foster care didn't really work out well when it comes to taking care of your kids, and drugs don't work out very well when it comes to taking care of kids. So I worked my butt off and used the tools that TEMP assistance has to become a CNA. At the age of 22 I was working for the county I lived in as a CNA and from there I worked my butt off and now I'm an LPN and I pay my student loans, have been paying my student loans since before I graduated. if you need to stay dependent on the government then you're not living life the way you should, if you're popping out three four five kids then you're not living life right, if you're doing this ALL ON WELFARE then you're already starting your kids off thinking that everything just keeps handed to them. No I'm not saying that everybody should just get off of food stamps, but there's a limit to how much me as a taxpayer should have to pay, and where it should go. Now I understand it's important but my taxpayer dollars are not going to go toward illegals and the fake asylum claims while they're marching in the streets flying another flag and Americans are dying because they're getting behind Wheels and they're stabbing people and they're raping people. STOP THE BULLS*** #SNAPBenefits #SNAPLife #SNAP

States have been allowed to use their tax dollars to create and fund healthcare and food assistance programs for illegals, at the expense of low-income Americans. States are meant to match the federal funds allocated for the programs. Had they been doing so, millions of people wouldn't be at risk of food shortages. The same can be said with regard to Medicaid. Many states are out of compliance, meaning error rates of 15% or more in some cases, another factor that is a direct cause of the funding shortages. Democrats are demanding that loopholes allowing them to use their state tax dollars for illegals and for some illegals to not only qualify for ACA policies, but to receive more subsidies than citizens in the same income bracket be reopened after they were to be closed with the implementation of the One Big Beautiful Bill. That's not even accounting for the $1.6 Trillion in subsidies for the ACA. Money that would be better served in the SNAP program to help offset the rising cost of food and the cost of living in general. The ACA is collapsing and no amount of subsidies can stop it. Young healthy people are opting to forego policies because of the artificially high rates, rates that are high to offset the artificially low rates for older sicker people. As fewer and fewer young people buy policies, and the number of people in the group shrinks, insurance companies raise premiums to remain profitable and cover the cost of care for the smaller group of people. A group primarily made up of older sicker people. The ACA is circling the drain. It's time we return to actuarial-based insurance, subsidize low-income older Americans, and use the rest of the subsidy money for the SNAP program. Force states to match federal funds for medical and food assistance, and eliminate the fraud, waste, and abuse rates over the 6% threshold. Force able-bodied adults to work or volunteer to remain eligible for assistance, and provide them with help to reach self-sufficiency. #SNAP

When I was a small child I lived with my mentally ill mother because her husband, my father, had left us. I believe the Army did require him to provide some support, but not much. My mother tried to work but nothing worked out for long. I remember she got a monthly box of commodities; Just the basics, but it helped keep us alive along with her dumpster diving behind grocery stores and what money she had. I remember her trying to feed us found Brussel sprouts that after cooking looked sort of orange. Neither of us managed to eat them. It was rare to not get yelled at for not eating my food. Personally, I would prefer my tax dollars feed many who don't deserve free food than miss just one person who is in true need. Should there be guardrails and limits on these type of free services? Yes. Do they need to be applied in a mean and hateful manner at a speed that prevents gaurdrails to be applied to the very limitations being added or instituted as part of the programs. It takes equipment, employees, training, processes and procedures clarified and set up, many other resources and time to get an effective setup implemented. Yes, it takes time to create the programs that can completely and fairly expedite placing limits on how these guardrails are applied. It should not take 10 years but 1 year is not only reasonable, but sensible. l belive there are also ways to reduce the numbers of people who need the assistance that can be compassionate instead of punitive: 1. Use their volunteer requirement to provide job skills training, i.e., providing day care for other participants, installations of the necessary equipment, maintaining the buildings, customer service replies, and etcetera. That way less paid employees would be require. 2. Build in rewards for getting off the program; subsidies for further job training or other education for example. 3. Opportunity for employment; sort of a hire from within or setting a job bank. #SNAPBenefits #SNAPLife #SNAP

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It saved my life when I was pregnant and legally disabled bc of my pregnancy. How can I buy when I can’t work? I even needed help shopping for the food. I couldn’t even get off the floor by myself from a sitting position. I cried the day baby came because I didn’t even know how I could wash her clothes..take care of her and myself without help. I did have her dad but he was at work all day, I still felt I needed physical help from both my disabilities and from having the major surgery (delivery). #Snap was the least society could do at that time. Now that I make over 6 figs, and no longer disabled, I would I would give a quarter of my whole paycheck to have it go to these women in way more need than most people realize. I needed a home aid and they wouldn’t give me one. Now, my live-in partner (baby’s father) is disabled and I pay for all of his food. We are not even married and government still enforces me to pay for all of his food. #Snap is helpful but the laws need to go further in that girlfriends should not be obligated to pay a grown man’s food, that’s ridiculous. Take Snap away and then I’ll be forced to also be responsible to pay for my mother in laws livelihood, who is also disabled with zero ability to cook, or shop. So I have to go to her house after work while trying to raise my toddler and cook and shop and buy her food for her???? I can barely buy my own groceries. More research needs to be accounted for, and be my guest toy can research my bank account all you want before making the irresponsible decision to take away peopleS foodstamps and #medicalcare. I’m a nurse, is the next thing I’ll need to do is be her doctor too!??? Richest democracy can’t afford medical coverage or coverage for the disabled. WHITE HOUSE I BUILDING BASKETBALL COURTS AND BALL ROOMS WHILE US MOMS STRUGGLE TO GET OFF THE FLOOR WITH NO HELP, WHILE 70+ LADIES HAVE TO RELY ON THESE SAME MOMS TO EAT, AND WHILE DISABLED BOYFRIENDS HABE TO RELY ON GIRLFRIENDS!? What a disgrace.

Working for snap and restrictions on purchases are heavy handed.

I don't disagree with working for snap, on its face. There are times work requirements shouldn't be enforced. For example if you have applied for disability, you shouldn't have to work for snap. Disability is absolutely broken. If you apply, you pretty much can't work, or lose your disability, the problem is if you apply and get approved, it takes months to get your first payment, which normally is several thousand dollars, because you get paid from the date you get approved, but like I said it takes months from that date. So if you have applied for disability, you can't work, or risk losing it, so you should be able to be on snap before your disability payments start. there should be no hour requirement, if your working at all, you should be edigble. I do not think states should restrict types of food. Things like soda, and chips can be unhealthy, but they are also cheap, and calorie dense. Let's be honest. My freind got $85 a month on food stamps, as a single employed person on food stamps. That's literally two weeks of food, for a month, and you need at least 2k calories a day. Sadly unhealthy food is the cheapest, and by restricting purchases of cheap unhealthy food, your probably causing a person to get less than 2k cal. If we are going to restrict snap spending it should be on name brand items. Do you really need a bag of lays potatoe chips, when great value is just about the same? Or velveta shells and cheese when great value is literally half the price? Even this posses problems, because there are some people who say can't have gluten, and there is limited generic gluten free options. One thing that must be done, is to cut most convenient stores out of snap. There is a gas station in town that is snap approved, but there is literally a Walmart three blocks away. There are some cases that I'd be OK if a gas station was snap approved, but those are situations where there isn't a grocery store that is close enough to get to w/o a car. #SNAPTalk #SNAP

The Government Said: You Can Have Milk, But You Can't Have Bread

I'm a mom of two. I am enrolled in both SNAP and WIC (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children). On November 1st, my SNAP (EBT) card had $0. But my WIC card worked just fine. Why? Because WIC is funded differently and was "safe" from this shutdown. So today at the store, I was able to buy the WIC-approved milk, cheese, and cereal for my 1-year-old. But I could not use SNAP to buy bread, chicken, or potatoes for my 5-year-old. What kind of absurd policy is this? My family is "half-starving." How did the government decide which of my children deserved to eat? #WIC #SNAP #Bureaucracy

SNAP shouldn’t make soda cheaper than vegetables — but it does

I’m a nurse at a community hospital in Minnesota. We see chronic patients every week, urging them to eat healthier. One man admitted he drinks two sodas a day. When I asked why, he said: “Veggies are too expensive. Soda is cheaper, and SNAP covers it.” I froze. We push healthy eating while the system makes unhealthy choices easier. Who’s paying for the medical consequences later? #SNAP #ShowUsTheBill #PublicHealthCrisis #HealthcareReality #MinnesotaLife