If a person wouldn't walk next door and ask their neighbor, or a friend, for money to buy a gallon of ice cream, then they shouldn't feel just fine buying all ice cream, or other crap, with SNAP money just because the source is anonymous to them.  If treats are that important, they can turn off their fancy phone/intern...more

PS - Water is FREE!  If you open your fridge and find any beverage in there besides water, milk, or juice concentrate, you are wasting MY money.   Stop buying soda, jugs of juice, and juice boxes, and you will see a difference in MY grocery bill almost immediately.

BS!  Frozen vegetables can be bought for about a dollar a bag!  Fresh potatoes $2.50 for 10 pounds!  Eggs $2/doz Carrots, lettuce, and celery all very cheap when bought whole.  Of course that would require you to cut it up all by yourself.  And I'm sure your kids would gag because they haven't eaten healthy their whole...more

I like your idea and, theoretically, it would work, IF these people didn't already have litters of kids that require daycare while one is working, the cost of that is astronomical in of itself.  The second they go on welfare though, the women should be on forced birth control (depo shot), and drug tests.  We can't rewa...more

We made a choice this past year to take up a sport as a family instead of running to several activities a week and it was the best thing we ever did.  For winter we bought skiing/snowboarding equipment along with a family season to the local hill.  Total cost for the first year, roughly, $1300 - for 4 of us including e...more