USDA America’s Harvest Box - Blue Apron for the Poor

[DBTrek]

Plenty of countries without roads you can emigrate to, Fife.

[C-Mag]

If the fucking federal, state, and local governments didn't crowd out all legitimate agricultural production with subsidies, regulations, and the kind of BS we are discussing in this thread, we'd be up to our eyeballs in locally grown, cheap, fantastic food; and shipping it all over the world for fun, profit, and the betterment of Peoplekind.

We need to do to the food industry what micro brews have done to beer.

[K@th]

We need to do to the food industry what micro brews have done to beer.

Gonna have to get Daddy Monsanto to agree, and he owns most of the politicians.

[SuburbanFarmer]

We need to do to the food industry what micro brews have done to beer.

Gonna have to get Daddy Monsanto to agree, and he owns most of the politicians.

I was told that Daddy Monsanto is a good father, and we shouldn't hate him.

[DBTrek]

Well ... Monsanto isn’t dictating that the US taxpayer purchase countless agricultural commodities at certain price points to maintain an arbitrary and artificial price floor. That would be the work of your friendly neighborhood Ds and Rs.

[C-Mag]

We need to do to the food industry what micro brews have done to beer.

Gonna have to get Daddy Monsanto to agree, and he owns most of the politicians.

Jheez............ draining that swamp is going to be tough. I basically OK with Sonny Perdue, but I don't think I see him doing that anytime soon.

It can be done. It has to happen like the local breweries. Just have to out compete corporate farming in quality, it can cost a little more, but people will pay for the quality.

[C-Mag]

Well ... Monsanto isn’t dictating that the US taxpayer purchase countless agricultural commodities at certain price points to maintain an arbitrary and artificial price floor. That would be the work of your friendly neighborhood Ds and Rs.

+1

Few countries in the world can argree on much of anything, but we've had global wheat control prices since the 30s. Think about that, leading up to and through a world war everyone agreed we need to control the price of wheat.

[PartyOf5]

Any level of food stamp "abuse" doesn't matter in the first place. Do whatever the hell you want with the money. If you wind up starving on the street corner, that's your problem.

This is a complete non-issue in terms of the federal budget, in the first place.

GCF logic strikes again. Any level of abuse doesn't matter, but us getting to keep an additional $50 a paycheck because of tax reform is going to ruin us.

Doing whatever the hell they want with food stamp money is exactly the problem for all of us who pay taxes. Of course GCF isn't even concerned with the poor kids who get Cheetos for breakfast because mom sells the rest for cash and then buys alcohol or drugs.

I want some SNAP benefits from the government of GCF. He don't care what I spend it on, or if I even need it because it isn't the biggest expense in the budget. WOOOOO!

[PartyOf5]

Any level of food stamp "abuse" doesn't matter in the first place. Do whatever the hell you want with the money. If you wind up starving on the street corner, that's your problem.

This is a complete non-issue in terms of the federal budget, in the first place.

Most of it is going to single mothers and is meant for children, so yeah, abuse is a problem when it occurs. Personally, I think the children should be taken if this happens. If some chick is cashing her EBT funds illegally when those funds are supposed to help feed her children, then her cashing it in for money implies child abuse.

We already take malnourished children away from their parents. This is not an issue.

Nothing to see here folks, GCF says it's not an issue. Every malnourished child had been removed from their parents abusive home and is now living a perfectly happy and nourished life. Next week GCF is going to eliminate world hunger because he already has the solution here.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Any level of food stamp "abuse" doesn't matter in the first place. Do whatever the hell you want with the money. If you wind up starving on the street corner, that's your problem.

This is a complete non-issue in terms of the federal budget, in the first place.

GCF logic strikes again. Any level of abuse doesn't matter, but us getting to keep an additional $50 a paycheck because of tax reform is going to ruin us.

Doing whatever the hell they want with food stamp money is exactly the problem for all of us who pay taxes. Of course GCF isn't even concerned with the poor kids who get Cheetos for breakfast because mom sells the rest for cash and then buys alcohol or drugs.

I want some SNAP benefits from the government of GCF. He don't care what I spend it on, or if I even need it because it isn't the biggest expense in the budget. WOOOOO!

Hmm. You've changed in your time here.

We could trim the SNAP budget, or we could actually enforce the use of it for food more strictly. But ultimately, what they do with it is their own responsibility. Do you think a drug addict won't find a way to trade their surplus food for a fix?

You think we'd be better off sending out 10 million monthly food packages purchased, shipped, and delivered by the government from a budget perspective? Would that be better for the vast majority of recipients that actually buy food with it? Or would it just make you feeeeeeeel soo gud, man?