U.S. Spends $907 Million On Useless
“Nutrition Education” For Food Stamp,
WIC Recipients
Judicial Watch,
by
Staff
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
7/31/2019 8:15:41 PM
Besides spending tens of billions of dollars on fraud-infested programs to feed the poor, the U.S. government wastes an additional $907 million to give recipients useless “nutrition education” courses with rates of effectiveness that cannot be assessed. It marks the latest scandal to rock the government’s famously bloated and corrupt food stamp program as well as a multi-billion-dollar sister project that feeds millions of low-income women and their children.
(Snip) The grand master is food stamps, renamed Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by the Obama administration to eliminate the welfare stigma.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
anniebc 7/31/2019 8:26:47 PM (No. 139303)
What's $907 million, $22 trillion, $10 billion, etc. to spendthrift politicians? They want us poor, while they get rich and rule over us.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
caljeepgirl 7/31/2019 10:25:25 PM (No. 139377)
Even if this was effective, the price tag alone is ridiculous!!!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 7/31/2019 11:54:11 PM (No. 139423)
They need to be able to ONLY purchase simple, raw basic foods. Flour, cheese, butter, milk, dried beans and perhaps some basic spices. Oatmeal, bread and peanut butter and jelly would be OK, too.
Use those basics to make meals. If you are too lazy, then starve.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 8/1/2019 12:05:41 AM (No. 139440)
Correction, dear OP. Funded by the TAXPAYERS, who have to pay for their own groceries.
Start up the food pantries, and distribute surplus food items which the government (i.e, still the taxpayers) used to do. If people have to eat powdered milk and cheese, sooner rather than later they'll make the necessary life-style changes. This aid is supposed to be Temporary Assistance, not a way of life.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Kowgirl 8/1/2019 12:24:18 AM (No. 139448)
Re #3 ... I totally agree. We stopped by a local pizza place last night where spending at least $30 for two people is the norm. Taped to a window next to the door was an "EBT cards welcome here" sign.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Trigger2 8/1/2019 12:29:15 AM (No. 139449)
Remember when Piglosi and Dirty Harry kept that trillion dollar waste on infrastructure in the bloating fed budget year after year? Well, that extra trillion is still there and it goes to wasteful spending. Since the feds refuse to go after food stamp fraud, it's a good place to waste a billion every year from that extra trillion being spent each and every year. My sister-in-law got a call from her doctor to come in for nutrition education, which she refused. She's on Medicare, not Medicaid, so this wasteful spending has permeated even Medicare. Hey, that's free money for doctors and PAs. I bet some 75 year old that wants to transgender from male to female or female to male is entirely paid for too. That $16B for that demonrat sewer of Baltimore is another waste since no one can account for where it went. I suspect it was the usual place - demonrat pockets of all subversive persuasions.
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#3 Sorry you feel that way. There are many elderly living in poverty who need food. They hardly receive anything. I am out in my community every day and I see the abuse and help the needy. What I object to is illegals getting hundreds of dollars in food assistance because they dropped a baby on American soil and the father is driving a $50,$60,000 new truck. There should be a limit instead of per child. Some receive over $1000 a month on their EBT card.
Don't say it is up to food banks and churches to feed people. It's outdated and not enough. It goes to the same old same old. Older people don't drive. There are people living in remote areas, lost a job, became ill, or can't afford a car. White single people who were cut.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 8/1/2019 1:32:15 AM (No. 139483)
Excuse additional Post.
#7 makes good points. But the problem is the fraud, is the millions who are scamming the system, which was supposed to help the truly needy. There are people who have multiple cards, who have found ways of selling those cards, claiming they've lost theirs's, not being able to buy lobsters, but able to buy lobster meat, unable to buy dog food, but able to buy sirloin burgers for the pets. And so on. They use their ingenuity to scam a system intended to benefit the poor.
Americans are very generous and compassionate. But the fraud in the system -- including those agents in welfare offices who participate in the fraud-- abuses the taxpayers who have to budget their own grocery purchases.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
hoosierblue 8/1/2019 7:50:53 AM (No. 139599)
It would have been a lot cheaper and more effective to keep the food stamps and keep restrictions on what they could buy.
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