Thou MUST work for food assistance

[Danny]

The big problem is most people from 18 to 49 are either mentally ill, personal injury, incompetent, and can not to find decent job due to their criminal background or bad rep. Welfare organizations and other protestors will fight tooth and nail to the Highest court in the nation.

Watch out.

Here comes the great purge!!!

[Richard]

The big problem is most people from 18 to 49 are either mentally ill, personal injury, incompetent, and can not to find decent job due to their criminal background or bad rep. Welfare organizations and other protestors will fight tooth and nail to the Highest court in the nation.

Watch out.

Here comes the great purge!!!

Many states implemented this two years ago,key word is ,able bodied,so most of the cases you listed are exempt anyways.

Fla is 18 to 45,if you provide 20 hours per month with a non profit you can be exempt.

Keep in mind that collecting cans from a dumpster for scrap is considered a source of self employed income and a job,nobody checks or verifies.

It sounds good in the papers,there are a million ways around it,which is probably why nobody has raised a fuss about it.

[UrbanViews]

The big problem is most people from 18 to 49 are either mentally ill, personal injury, incompetent, and can not to find decent job due to their criminal background or bad rep. Welfare organizations and other protestors will fight tooth and nail to the Highest court in the nation.

Watch out.

Here comes the great purge!!!

Did you just imply that more than 50% of people age 18-49 have a mental or physical handicap? If that is true, we have issues far greater than food stamps.

[Canadian Visitor]

I must say, I really don't get this "I've got mine so eff off" attitude that permeates a chunk of the electorate, and politicians.

We have it Canada too, fortunately its a smaller and typically a less influential subset of the electorate.

But its not only immoral and a real garbage attitude, its irrational and contrary to self-interest.

High levels of income inequality and poverty tend to drive up crime, that not only increases ones likelihood of being a victim, but also one's insurance rates and tax money going to police, courts and jails.

It also lowers productivity, resulting in lower production per worker, labour shortages at people lack the requisite skills for work, and crappier infrastructure which leads to higher car repair costs, higher insurance, more accidents, and congestion etc. etc.

There seems to be this notion that if you hand out 'free' money then people will all spontaneous sit on their ass leaving you to do everything.

The only problem w/this is that there's no evidence to support that, and the amount of money were talking about is far less than full-time minimum wage employment, meaning their remains a strong incentive to work.

Finding excuses to police whether someone deserves their money or how they spend it costs far more in $$ than it saves; and that's before considering the very real societal consequences.