Fox Business host Charles Payne told “America Reports” co-host Sandra Smith Tuesday the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as “food stamps,” has been an abuser of taxpayer funds.
The Department of Health and Human Services is seeking to disallow the use of food stamps to purchase sodas and other forms of so-called “junk food.” Payne told Smith that adding conditions about what could be purchased with funds from the government program was “fair.”
“I think it is fair to say we should determine what people can buy, particularly what people buy for their kids and you know, there is a lot that comes with people who are on food stamps for a long time and a lot of it could be because of a lower education,” Payne said. And so that means also on the dietary side. My mom used to work at a convenience store, she’d tell me people come in and buy, like, honeybuns for their kids and sometimes that would be their dinner. So listen, it is taxpayer funds and ultimately we want the betterment of the country, sort of like saying ‘Hey, let’s throw a bunch of money at education but not care what students are taught.’”
Charles Payne is correct. One of the biggest fraudulent abuses is with food stamps. I personally know people who sell their food stamps and then buy drugs and alcohol with the money they get for the food stamps. Also, I don’t think Twinkies, HoHos, Ding Dongs and potato chips and sodas should be allowed to be purchased with food stamps, but they do, along with other junk foods and snacks of every sort. They are hardly life sustaining nutrients. If they want to eat and want their children to eat, get an Ef’n job like the rest of us. You breed ’em…………you feed ’em!!!