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Posted: 2/12/2018 3:51:59 PM EDT

In what would be one of the biggest shakeups of the U.S. food-stamp program in its five-decade history, President Donald Trump is proposing to slash cash payments and substitute them with "100 percent American grown food" given to recipients.

The changes, outlined Monday in Trump’s budget proposal, would reshape the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, which supports roughly one in eight Americans, by reducing cash spending by about one-third from current levels.

The plan is part of an effort to reform SNAP and save a projected $214 billion over a decade. It would give all households receiving more than $90 a month in cash a food-aid package that would "include items such as shelf-stable milk, ready to eat cereals, pasta, peanut butter, beans and canned fruit, vegetables, and meat, poultry or fish," according to the proposal.

The so-called USDA America’s Harvest Box "is a bold, innovative approach to providing nutritious food to people who need assistance feeding themselves and their families -- and all of it is home grown by American farmers and producers," Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said in a statement. The program would provide food-stamp recipients with "the same level of food value" as the current system, Perdue added.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-12/trump-budget-swaps-food-stamps-for-100-percent-american-food

Posted: 2/12/2018 3:53:37 PM EDT

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Freedom Boner!

Posted: 2/12/2018 3:54:01 PM EDT

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Seeds and a hoe.

Posted: 2/12/2018 3:54:03 PM EDT

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The plan is part of an effort to reform SNAP and save a projected $214 billion over a decade. It would give all households receiving more than $90 a month in cash a food-aid package that would "include items such as shelf-stable milk, ready to eat cereals, pasta, peanut butter, beans and canned fruit, vegetables, and meat, poultry or fish," according to the proposal.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-12/trump-budget-swaps-food-stamps-for-100-percent-american-food

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What? No gubmint cheese?

Posted: 2/12/2018 3:54:06 PM EDT

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Make government cheese great again !!

(Makes awesome grilled cheese sammitches BTW).

Posted: 2/12/2018 3:54:07 PM EDT

[#5]

" I'm OKAY with this "

Posted: 2/12/2018 3:54:13 PM EDT

[#6]

FUCKING MAGA

Posted: 2/12/2018 3:55:45 PM EDT

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Posted: 2/12/2018 3:56:02 PM EDT

[#8]

Fucking Do It!

Posted: 2/12/2018 3:56:09 PM EDT

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Sounds good to me. Turn convicts into farmers while we are at it.

Posted: 2/12/2018 3:56:50 PM EDT

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Attached File

Posted: 2/12/2018 3:56:52 PM EDT

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Am I missing something? Sounds like they still would be able to get the good stuff, steak, chicken, fish.

Posted: 2/12/2018 3:57:05 PM EDT

[#12]

Dat's racist...

Eta: beat to it

Posted: 2/12/2018 3:57:47 PM EDT

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Seeds and a hoe.

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No, most of the problem is too many hoes getting the seed.

Posted: 2/12/2018 3:58:07 PM EDT

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FUCK YES

Posted: 2/12/2018 3:58:20 PM EDT

[#15]

Fucking awesome. This is what the program should have been all along.

Posted: 2/12/2018 3:58:26 PM EDT

[#16]

But but but but but but but how will they sell their food stamps for a new 65" tv?!

Posted: 2/12/2018 3:58:44 PM EDT

[#17]

holy shit thats a fantastic idea...

Posted: 2/12/2018 3:58:44 PM EDT

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Credit card processing companies like Fiserv make a fucktton processing EBT payments.

Not to mention supermarkets and gas stations are gonna be pissed

Too many special interests making money off of EBT waste.

Posted: 2/12/2018 3:59:32 PM EDT

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Make government cheese great again !!

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Aint no cheese like government cheese

5-10 dollars for 5 pound on the black "no pun intended" market.

Damn I miss government cheese

Walmart stock does not approve this message. Let them eat beans

Posted: 2/12/2018 3:59:53 PM EDT

[#20]

Truly MAGA. this will be far cheaper than direct payments.

Posted: 2/12/2018 3:59:59 PM EDT

[#21]

(Edited -40xb)

Posted: 2/12/2018 4:00:32 PM EDT

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How strong is the convenience store lobby?

Posted: 2/12/2018 4:00:50 PM EDT

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I can remember standing in line with mom to get the food. It was an embarrassing experience that started at 5 years old and for my mom that helped mold me to do something with my life. I ate the cheese and drank the powdered milk for many years until I moved in with a family friend when she died.

100% bring back the lines

Posted: 2/12/2018 4:00:51 PM EDT

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Sounds good enough to go on food assistance!

Posted: 2/12/2018 4:00:53 PM EDT

[#25]

The fatty's will never go for it. Great idea that will be shot down by liberals.

Posted: 2/12/2018 4:00:58 PM EDT

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Am I missing something? Sounds like they still would be able to get the good stuff, steak, chicken, fish.

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I think its more about not buying cheetos and cutting off the scams. Of course a bunch of stores that rely on EBT customers might not like it.

Posted: 2/12/2018 4:01:22 PM EDT

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Give them a box full of recipes.

Posted: 2/12/2018 4:01:28 PM EDT

[#28]

THIS IS HOW YOU

Posted: 2/12/2018 4:01:42 PM EDT

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Probably pretty strong adding in Target, Walmart and the grocery lobby.

Posted: 2/12/2018 4:01:51 PM EDT

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Fucking awesome. This is what the program should have been all along.

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Posted: 2/12/2018 4:02:10 PM EDT

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Trump's just trying to outdo the Wookie's school lunch program

Posted: 2/12/2018 4:02:30 PM EDT

[#32]

Will there be any grape drank?

Posted: 2/12/2018 4:02:35 PM EDT

[#33]

WOOHOOO!!

"A hand up, not a handout."

Posted: 2/12/2018 4:02:50 PM EDT

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Make government cheese great again !!

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With a bunch of the Surplus Butter from the commissary. This stuff is only available overseas. Not for sale conus.

Posted: 2/12/2018 4:02:59 PM EDT

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Posted: 2/12/2018 4:03:23 PM EDT

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Will never pass. Makes too much sense to give poor people who say they need food food instead of something they can pocket.

Posted: 2/12/2018 4:03:29 PM EDT

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Am I missing something? Sounds like they still would be able to get the good stuff, steak, chicken, fish.

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But not beer or cigarettes.

Posted: 2/12/2018 4:03:32 PM EDT

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Seeds and a hoe.

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But they need their 40 and a mule first.

Posted: 2/12/2018 4:03:45 PM EDT

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Is this in addition to their monthly check or does that check get reduced?

Posted: 2/12/2018 4:03:48 PM EDT

[#40]

I’m before our resident butthurt liberals and trolls throw a fit over this.

Posted: 2/12/2018 4:03:54 PM EDT

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Credit card processing companies like Fiserv make a fucktton processing EBT payments.

Not to mention supermarkets and gas stations are gonna be pissed

Too many special interests making money off of EBT waste.

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Then theyre part of the problem.

Posted: 2/12/2018 4:04:44 PM EDT

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Posted: 2/12/2018 4:04:55 PM EDT

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love this idea. been saying we should do it this way for years.

that being said, i'm not exactly holding my breath on this one.

Posted: 2/12/2018 4:05:29 PM EDT

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No, most of the problem is too many hoes getting the seed.

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Seeds and a hoe.

No, most of the problem is too many hoes getting the seed.

Likely to be the best post of the day right here

Posted: 2/12/2018 4:06:07 PM EDT

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But but but but but but but how will they sell their food stamps for a new 65" tv?!

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I'd give someone a couple of bucks for a block of gubmint cheese.

Posted: 2/12/2018 4:06:09 PM EDT

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That should surely earn President Trump the lefts award as the most hateful, most racist, most heartless man in the world, and if so it would be glorious as this welfare BS needs to stop.