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To: gronieel2 who wrote (886031)	9/8/2015 1:25:59 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1576179

"..What's more, many SNAP participants aren't physically able to work. About 20 percent of SNAP participants are elderly or have a disability, according to the USDA...." Doesn't matter. If you can chew...you can work! And work over time if necessary.

To: gronieel2 who wrote (886031)	9/8/2015 1:29:41 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Recommended By Brumar89 Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576179

>> ."..What's more, many SNAP participants aren't physically able to work. About 20 percent of SNAP participants are elderly or have a disability, according to the USDA...." So, fine. The problem is that if you can't manage the program effectively those people are going to be deprived. Case in point is the Disability Income trust, which will run out of money next year if Congress can't come up with $20 Billion a year to continue funding it. At that point, those on Disability will see a 20% cut in benefits overnight. I know of a couple who are both on Disability -- both legitimately receiving benefits for serious disabilities that prevent them from working. But we know that somewhere around 1/3 of those on Disability are not disabled at all. They doctor-shopped (or attorney-shopped) until they got the benefits. Happens every single day. Our government is incompetent to control these things. We lose 100 Billion a year AT LEAST to Medicare fraud; a figure that could be a LOT higher (part of the problem is you don't know how much you lose to fraud because you have no way of knowing about it). The reason I oppose government programs is that none of them work. When I say "none" I mean practically NO large government program works cost effectively. We spend two, three, sometimes ten times as much as necessary to get the desired outcome. Bastiat explained this almost 200 years ago. Once you pay the bureaucracy, there isn't much left.