The Republicans want to reduce the funding to the food stamp program by $40 billion over the next decade. They also plan on ending waivers that allow extensions on the food stamp program. However these cuts would drastically effect the people that rely on food stamps. It is estimated that 15% of American's rely heavily on food stamps and another 4 million use waivers.
I believe that food stamps are a very important resource that have to be available for the low income citizens in America. Republicans may argue that people have been abusing the system and therefore funding needs to be cut. I think that the system should be policed more but funding shouldn't be cut. If people are in a rough spot in life, there should be a program in place to help them out.
Source:http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/27/opinion/food-stamp-regression-in-the-statehouse.html?_r=0
While I agree that food stamps are an important program and does help many people in need, people do take advantage of the system. If you don't use food stamps you lose them which I feel adds to the abuse of the system. I know a woman how bought her family food and all of her neighbors with her food stamps, I don't know about you but I see a problem with this system. I think some cuts should be made because there is obviously too much money being given in food stamps.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if the cuts need to be as heavy, but there is definitely reason for wanting cuts. The goal is not to harm the poor Americans. No rational person wants to take from the working American population, even if they are poor. The people that don't work on purpose are the ones that need to be targeted.
ReplyDeleteThe cuts in the food stamp budget that are being described are somewhat needed, but for the wrong reasons. This is likely geared towards the high amount of people using food stamps just because they do not want to work. Because of this, cuts would impact all of the people on food stamps, which, unfortunately, will hurt those who truly need them because they cannot find work and not because they do not want to work.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you to some extent. The food stamp program does help low income families and the program should continue, but like you said, it needs to be more policed. At the same time, I think that the cuts need to happen because there is entirely too much money put into the assistance programs. Like Big Dave said, the ones who don't work on purpose are the ones who need to be targeted.
ReplyDeleteI believe that some of the people who receive food stamps need to go out there and make a living for crying out loud. I realize that some people are in a bad situation and need them to survive, but I saw a Fox News report (don't watch Fox News) about a guy in California who is unemployed, doesn't look for jobs, just goes surfing all day literally, and then goes to the store with his stamps and eats like a king for dinner. He bought friggin lobster, scallops, energy drinks. This is why I cant stand some people. It's bs.
ReplyDeleteI believe that the program is a good thing that needs to be continued. However, I believe that it needs to be greatly reformed. The abuse needs to stop because cutting funds hurts the people that do it right and doesn't those that cheat the system.
ReplyDeleteI agree with David Gerhart that the cuts don't need to be so large but again like I commented on Gabe's blog the easy way to track what people buy is with the government issued credit card EBT's. Then you can sort out the people who use the aid correctly and those who abuse the system.
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