EBT Cards, Abuse, Fish, and Food Stamps Program Theory

Mention the issue of food stamps in mixed political company and you are bound to win new friends and influence people, or find yourself at odds with folks you previously considered friends or wise individuals. The political divide on this topic is like night and day, like Obama or Romney, or like atheist and Catholic. Let's just say; diametrically opposed for now. Still, let's expand this conversation if we might, let's dig deeper.

The Los Angeles Times on May 24, 2013 had an interesting article "The Case for Food Stamps," by Christopher D. Cook, which asserted "slashing food aid makes no sense in humanitarian, economic or health terms."

Now then, I find that statement laughable. But let's take each of those issues on separately;

1. Humanitarian
2. Economic
3. Health Terms

A. Humanitarian - Last time I checked human beings were a very evolved species capable of planning, reasoning, thinking and able to take care of themselves. It is neither wise nor noble to make a capable species weak. We need to teach people to fish, not give them fish. And speaking of fish, not long ago I was in Hawaii and there was a sign at a restaurant which said "Drive Through Sushi - EBT Cards Accepted" and when I saw that I thought "ouch" there I was in a village like beach town where local Hawaiians lived, natives.

Off on the beach were several row boats parked in shallow water. These folks have been living on the Hawaiian Islands for 1,000s of years for all we know, they've been living off coconuts and fish. Why do they need free fish now? And why do they need a drive through to pick them up, isn't that the epitome of laziness, and we are doing that to them - there is no humanitarian honor in that.

B. Economic - It is not economically wise for our Federal Government to continue to boost the Food Stamp program or continue to spend 10s of billions of taxpayer's money every year giving away free food. We have huge budget deficits each year, we owe more and more money, and we have leadership with socialist tendencies and socialism has never ended well for any nation (cite: history).

C. Health Terms - Currently, we are making people fat by giving them all the food they might want to eat, so we are causing people to get Diabetes. And, again, this is exacerbating our health care system, and in the age of ObamaCare we can't afford this economically either.

Well, now it's your turn to sound off. You can put forth more left-leaning arguments for me to defeat or leave a comment on this article. Please consider all this and think on it.

Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative series of eBooks on Future Humanitarian Concepts. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net