No more treats with food stamps?

Comfortable poverty is ultimate in cruel kindness. People should not be comfortably poor, because they shall never gain the motivation to lift themselves out of poverty. If crawling were as comfortable as walking, then no child would ever take a first step.

Food stamps should be extremely restricted, staples only, raw ingredients only. If the poor want bread, then let them buy flour and make it. Absolutely nothing ready to consume should be allowed.

Raw meats, raw vegetables, powdered milk, powdered eggs, lard, raw fruits, and nothing else. If the poor don't like that, then that's a good thing because they shouldn't like being poor. They shouldn't be abusing the safety net as a hammock. Poverty is a hardship, and not a lifestyle.

When I go on camping trips, I plan on fishing and I don't pack meat because I plan to eat what I catch. That's called motivational thinking. If I don't catch a fish then I get to be a vegetarian. It makes me all that more motivated to get me a trout, nice and fresh and ready to clean and fry up with my campfire baked potato and ranch style beans.

Motivation is a good thing, and motivation is destroyed when doing nothing has results just as successful as making an effort.

I'm not on food stamps and I've never been on food stamps. I enjoy finer foods, shopping at stores with olive bars and imported cheeses, with chocolates from northern Europe and bok choy from China. Eating is like breathing, and some air is better than other air.

City air is usually the worst. I like the better things and that's why I like getting out of the city. It's why I like wild caught trout fresh out of the lake. You cannot match that in a store in any city.

Food stamps are a trap, a city trap. They're really nasty when it comes right down to brass tacks. They're only good at major supermarkets because they have to be accepted by government-approved retailers, and that means poverty is only subsidized in cities, mainly large cities.

Subsidized poverty is an evil unto itself because you don't subsidize anything unless you want more of it, but the net result of subsidized poverty in cities is predictable. You get slums that way. Food stamps are a proximate cause of slums. It causes poor people to gather in one small area to beg for social services and the government stupidly concentrates social services in those same small areas. These become slums, barrios, ghettos, or what ever other name these pits of despair may be called.

It should suck to be poor. If it doesn't suck to be poor, then the poor will be content with their lot in life and make no effort to free themselves from their curse.