Do you support the food stamps program?

Yes. Hunger hurts and simply looking for work is not a guarantee that you will find it.

Yes, when it's truly in need. My local news did a story awhile back about how these people were using their stamps for crab legs and cigarettes. It was the "flex" money or whatever it is. I do think that is abusing the program - if you truly need it it should be for only necessary items.

Nope. I'm glad people get food, but I'd much prefer it were handled by voluntary charity rather than government coercion.

Yes, people have a right to life. But no right can come at the cost of the rights of another. The right to life IS the right to property. My life can be measured both by quantity (time) and quality (happiness). Welfare programs strip both quantity and quality of life from one person, under threat of violence (we call this taxation), and grant it to another. One individual's want does not create a right to take by force whatever they desire- on behalf of themselves or any other. If a country values individual liberty it must not engage in welfare programs by means of coercive taxation.

Plus the system, like most government systems, is wrought with inefficiency and abuse. Food stamps, for example, are regularly traded at a discount for cash, cigarettes, alcohol and drugs. Anyone who ever worked at a 7/11 can tell you that.

The elimination of social programs in a state guarantee the long term success of its people, measured by quality of life. They also encourage the poor to work harder to succeed, and the rich to be more generous and charitable. Private charity is perfectly capable of effecting the social assistance necessary to keep children and adults from starvation and homelessness.

Yes because it helps a lot of people. Some kids would not eat without food stamps. What is ironic is that people/ states that benefit most from these programs are the same people who are out there trying to cut them. I support these types of programs. I don't support government subsidies to farmers or businesses.

Will people really say no? Most people on food stamps are children. Maybe we should let them beg in the streets for food, like India.

Yes and no. Yes if individual States wish to provide them, no if the Federal Government does. The Federal Government has no right being in the Social Program business.

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Yes. Hunger is not morally acceptable option for our children.

To a point. It, just like welfare, is abused. It's an awesome system set up to help the truly needy, not the lazy.

Hell yes been paying for them for years ! Do I think that most of the people that get them deserve them hell no I go to the grocery store I see their lazy butts !

Are people really so naive that they think most of this goes to kids ? Are they not smart enough to know that they sell them , or in our state get some one to trade them cash for the grocerys so they can buy there drugs ,and beer !

No, ya can't buy Bud Light wit 'em.