House Approves Bill For Reduced Food Stamp Budget

[LetsGetReal]

Dear Kane - I can't make it so the economy doesn't go up and down in cyclical nature. So I wont' attempt to. What I'll do is put a plan in place to where I know that the people receiving the money are being educated about their finances, their health, and incentivized to not spend all the money unless they have to. In addition his request was how would I change the program not how I would fix the economy.

Fighting the idea of Food Stamps is absurd and only loses elections (I'm not for it from a government funding perspective). Running food stamps more like a business and less like a hand out is something we can accomplish. If it were up to me I would put a system in place where if you volunteer for programs such as this in a limited fashion you would be paid on a 3 to 1 basis against your taxes. So if you put in $100 worth of services your would get a $300 tax write off. People would be volunteering all over the place and things would get done much faster. I don't believe the rich would do it, but that low to middle class people who hate taxes would be helping people in droves, and then you could really make a difference in these people lives.

The comment about spending going up incredibly is, because it has risen then faster even with the greater number of people, and it's due to poor management not successfully feed the populous.

[Winchester]

[Kane]

[LetsGetReal]

Agreed with both of you guys (on the 3 to 1) little overzealous for the moment(I want a simplified tax code that encourages social charity). However you can't believe your going to cut yourself out of this problem, that doesn't make any sense, and you have to incentivize people to stop with the status quo. If nothing changes outside of just inciting the masses to think Republicans are heartless bastards then you will get nowhere. Taking measures to slowly, but surely minimize the costs of programs, and better help people get off of them should be the strategy. Although I do love the comments from the bleachers...

Running it like a business means that you put a system(vision) in place to accomplish your goals(financial objectives). Vision - Help people when times get tough in a cost efficient manner and then help them leave that same system to never come back. Handing out checks to people blindly, because they meet a economic status, and then hoping they do better should not be acceptable.

Some people act on the reality of the situation we live in and try to steer it where it needs to be. While others live in the hypothetical utopia and believe anything else would be tyrannical.....

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[Homer]

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[Indy]

[Winchester]

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