The Shame of the Food Stamp Program ?!?

I found an article about food stamps that I am interested on The Smirking Chimp. We all know Food Stamps, which are known as the Supplementary Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), are a Government assistance program to help low income people to pay for foods. The amount of SNAP per household get depends on their income, size, house expense, and child support expense. Also, the average benefit for each person is three dollars a day or 21 dollars a week.  The writer mentioned that eating on three dollars a day might be hard to do while the price of everything has gone up. Thus, it is impossible for food stamps household to eat healthy diet.  According to the article, the writer said that with 21 dollars a week, low-income American usually consumes foods with low nutrition and not much meats or fresh fruits and vegetables.

Additional, the writer talked about several members of House of Hunger Caucus want to participate the Food Stamps Challenge to see how difficult it is to avoid hunger, afford nutritious foods, and stay healthy. The author thought that it is not right when there always seems to be money available for war, but not for social welfare program.  

From my point of view, I agree with all the points that the writer mentioned. I know what it is like to have hanger pang, but I really do not worry how I afford food to the last minute. I think that health problems are a likely result of the food stamp diet because the cheapest foods are crabs; hence it is easy to understand why type 2 diabetes is an epidemic in America. The diabetic and overweight people can make wise foods choices, but for the poor, wise choices are not as available. It is just not fair that wealthy people wasting their money on their luxuries and do not have to worry about their next meal while low- income people always worry about how to budget their food expenses on every single meal. Moreover, low-income American may find it hard on economic as they lose their freedom to choose what and when to eat. Or low-income people might also lose their social impact when they usually turn down their social invitation because it may be difficult to reciprocate. I think Government should pay more attention to the social welfare program and spend more money to help the poverty instead of wasting money and killing people on war. I do agree with the author and believe that: “A truly nation just ensures that no one goes hungry”.