Ah. Now I get it. Mind you, it is Salon - so, derpity derp.
"What I didn’t explain to that English dad was that, as part of the story I was writing, I had decided to experience for myself what it’s like to survive on money from the Supplemental Nutritional Assistant Program (SNAP), better known to most as “food stamps.” To apply, one must go to one of 16 food-stamp centers for an application and interview. I wondered how many of the 1.8 million people in the city who are on SNAP — including a full third of Brooklynites — felt as sheepish as I did at being pegged needing what that dad had called “welfare.”
Why, because they give it a sexy name doesn't make it so?
It is welfare, jackass.
'Snap' out of it.
"Though you can use SNAP dollars at some upscale markets, your dollar wouldn’t go far. Forget broad choices; forget organic; forget cage-free; forget cold-pressed juice; forget artisanal coffee beans; forget locally made cheese."
Simply not true. They can and do buy high-end foods. I listen to Boston radio enough. Frustrated small business owners - some of which don't want to be part of the EBT program - often call in to tell tales of people using EBT cards to purchase such items. Either they lie or it's an urban myth. I'm leaning the former.
I like this from the comments:
"SNAP allows citizens to put money into our economy and their savings accounts and move out of poverty." Translated: SNAP transfers money from one group to another and provides built-in disincentives for ever getting off it. No child who starts school on free lunch ever comes off it, either. From benefit to entitlement to lifestyle in three easy steps.
Yeah, that's the latest financial gibberish from the left. Welfare money creates wealth and savings.
It's nutty but it sells.
"What I didn’t explain to that English dad was that, as part of the story I was writing, I had decided to experience for myself what it’s like to survive on money from the Supplemental Nutritional Assistant Program (SNAP), better known to most as “food stamps.” To apply, one must go to one of 16 food-stamp centers for an application and interview. I wondered how many of the 1.8 million people in the city who are on SNAP — including a full third of Brooklynites — felt as sheepish as I did at being pegged needing what that dad had called “welfare.”
Why, because they give it a sexy name doesn't make it so?
It is welfare, jackass.
'Snap' out of it.
"Though you can use SNAP dollars at some upscale markets, your dollar wouldn’t go far. Forget broad choices; forget organic; forget cage-free; forget cold-pressed juice; forget artisanal coffee beans; forget locally made cheese."
Simply not true. They can and do buy high-end foods. I listen to Boston radio enough. Frustrated small business owners - some of which don't want to be part of the EBT program - often call in to tell tales of people using EBT cards to purchase such items. Either they lie or it's an urban myth. I'm leaning the former.
I like this from the comments:
"SNAP allows citizens to put money into our economy and their savings accounts and move out of poverty." Translated: SNAP transfers money from one group to another and provides built-in disincentives for ever getting off it. No child who starts school on free lunch ever comes off it, either. From benefit to entitlement to lifestyle in three easy steps.
Yeah, that's the latest financial gibberish from the left. Welfare money creates wealth and savings.
It's nutty but it sells.
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