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To: Jerome who wrote (895)	3/14/2014 4:42:40 PM
From: Murrey Walker	Respond to of 26629

I don't know how to solve the food stamp program… You put the recipients to work at $10.10 an hour. They're placed in jobs commensurate with their skills(?). But they go to work for government agencies that furnish(?) child care and Depends.

To: Jerome who wrote (895)	3/14/2014 4:47:03 PM
From: Kirk ©	1 Recommendation Recommended By Steve Lokness Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26629

That is a great start I don't know how to solve the food stamp program, unless it were made to look like the S.N.A.P. program for young children. Its a very good program with a very limited food formulary. (No junk food at all....when that program specifies a 16oz box of Wheaties...nothing else can be substituted.).Usually there are only about 20 items that can be purchased under the SNAP program. We are one of the most generous nations that ever existed. But you can only go to the well so many times before those who made huge sacrifices to get where we are revolt and demand more accountability and programs that actually help. The solution is to not give ANY money for ANY of these programs but make payments directly to buy products to prevent starvation and give good health. Peanut butter on whole bread, an apple and a box of milk should be all you get in free lunches. For dinner, bags of brown rice, black beans and maybe an allotment of protein via a chicken. We grew up where a single chicken for a family of five with three of us teenage boys was dinner with a box of frozen peas or spinach and a potato or rice for starch. Desert was often a cookie. Anyway, we were healthy kids. Some of us got fat when we went to college where we got buffet dining! I still remember my first dorm meal where I could have TWO quarters of a chicken, one fried and one was baked and then desert! Oh it was heaven.