MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
By Caitlin Dewey @ Wonkblog @ WashingtonPost.com, Feb. 12
AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN, here's the two paragraphs that explain why:
[....] “It boggles the mind how that would play out,” said Kathy Fisher, policy director at Philadelphia’s Coalition Against Hunger. “We know SNAP works now, when people can choose what they need. How they would distribute foods to people with specialized diets, or [to people in] rural areas … It’s very expensive and very complicated.”
The proposal is also likely to enrage food retailers -- particularly Walmart, Target and Aldi -- who stand to lose billions if food stamp benefits are cut, analysts say. On Monday, the Food Marketing Institute, a trade association for grocery stores, condemned the Harvest Box proposal as expensive, inefficient and unlikely to generate any long-term government savings [....]
Then there's also that plenty of Trump voters are getting Food Stamps nowadays. This is just meat (no pun intended) for the part of his base that can still manage to pay their daily keep without the gummint's help. That's the reason for the "Blue Apron" analogy propaganda, to make it sound like they would be giving them all this healthy food when in reality all they would probably have is cans of beans, bags of stale rice, MRE's and Bush-era ketchup.