Ending Generational Welfare and SNAP

A cap and limit across the country on all welfare and SNAP benefits effectively ending generational welfare mindset. Empowering Americans to pursue the American dream. Our country spends nearly 148 billion annually at the federal level just on SNAP benefits alone. Placing restrictions on who is eligible, and putting finite end periods with caps on how many times a person can receive benefits in their life. I propose no more than a 6-12 month period max and no more than 3x in their life with initiatives to help the applicant find work, address any other needs etc. Requiring beneficiaries to be citizens, and mandatory drug testing with a mandatory obligation to be looking for work similar to unemployment. Welfare and SNAP benefits are socialist. It is not the American tax payers responsibility to pay for this. These benefits should be for extreme cases for short periods of time. Not forever and not for years on end. The welfare mentality is contributing to systemic poverty, stagnation, and additional health crisis. We could then reallocate some of this funding for the elderly who’ve already paid their dues and made their contributions to society.

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I like this proposal. My concern is that I make a little bit over 1500 a month on survivors SS. I was a wife and raised my children and I live in a small town. I don’t use EBT, but since cost of food went up, I’m thinking about it. Especially since I have bills other than groceries and I don’t see my SS going up anytime soon.
There needs to be an overhaul of these systems I agree, but remember us older people who rely on a SS check when talking cutoffs.

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I would prefer that the benefits promote health, saving trillions from healthcare costs. Would you put limits on elderly, sick or disabled? Disadvantage (injury) comes in many forms, it would seem.

This is so sad to hear. I’d like to expound on the last part I mentioned about reallocating the savings towards those who are elderly or whom receive social security or disability benefits. I think their food benefits should be increased and we need to take care of them.

I said at the end and perhaps didn’t expound on enough, we need to end welfare and generational welfare mindsets for most Americans. Reallocating the saved money towards the elderly and those whom receive social security benefits. I’d like to add those who are disabled of course. The facts are, the majority of those who receive benefits for generations are young, able bodied people. The exceptions such as you mentioned, are not included. But I don’t feel comfortable or responsible to pay for countless families with countless kids, to feed and house them. We are not a socialist state.

Is access to food, a human right? What about a health package. Nutritional foods, for health not flavor, to maintain health and increased ability to work. Some areas have it worse than others. Food banks can be great. I understand worries of socialism. Where is the humanism line drawn?

Let’s say we have two Earths, in two columns. On each Earth is a population. As more pain and suffering, is felt on the planet, the Earths have potential to sink. The lower they go in the column, the more pain in the air around the entire planet, resonates to all things. Should the planet remedy the pain, through different acts and logics, the entire planet rises up, to a heavenly state if you will. If on one Earth, there is a group that claws, to the top, to avoid, the highest concentrations, lower in the column, though they create pain as they go, a what can I get away with, how special am I by way of double standards, motivating them like rats. On the other Earth, everyone looks to where they can relieve suffering while finding ways to neutralise that potential, without causing any injury in the process. Everyone flocks to the bottom to fix the issues and in time, even those on the bottom of that Earth, with the most pain, are in a far better spot, then the top clawing person at the top of the other Earth, sinking into dispare.

I would hesitate implementing policies that create pain. I would suggest having ones against it. “No action or no injury”