I'll probably get hammered on this too but food stamps (if you qualify) should be distributed as commodities. It's glaringly obvious that the current system doesn't do anything for the truly needy. Years ago (and I still believe it today) we should have used the empty school houses (another stupid government move) vacated buy the bussing program and used them to house the needy: ie."poor houses." When I was a kid, I watched welfare people line up to get cans of food that were delivered in semi trucks by the state. It was humiliating for those people but at the same time it encouraged them to stay off the public dole. Every decent citizen doesn't want anyone to starve but
handing out my money so someone can live or at least eat better than me is infurating. We need responsibility in government and SOON. If this administration continues through 2012 we are all sunk!