The study skips right over a certain brutality of the rule: So. If you: 1) Aren't taking care of minors full-time 2) In an approved work-training program at least 20 hours a week 3) Pregnant 4) In treatment 5) On disability You are assed out of food stamps for THREE YEARS. Thirty six months. Longer than a congressman's term. And it doesn't fucking matter if there aren't any jobs or approved training programs near you. It certainly doesn't matter if official unemployment statistics in your 'hood are pushing 15%: What the study proves is that when you make food stamps impossible to get, fewer people are on food stamps.DHHS has a new rule that limits Food Supplements for some people between the ages of 18 and 50. If the rule applies to you, you can only get benefits for 3 months during a 36 month period.
You mean the minors that I decided to have "out of wedlock" so to speak, or the three kids I chose to have by three different fathers ( none of whom have the character to actually provide for their kids). These are the minors I am caring for? So, what is your solution? If you lack life skills you SHOULD be in a program , I guess the taxpayers "forced you at gunpoint" to get pregnant (I hear the complaint but no solution) . All programs have exceptions for disabilities, this one included!
Just so we're clear: You're angry enough to make a straw man about the people who DO qualify under this plan? We can continue, but I'd like you to complete an exercise for me: Give me an itinerary for a day in which you have to spend 4 hours at your local DSHS office. Include getting there by public transport. Then get to your job, also by public transport, and get home. Remember - food stamps are supplemental income.
Who really got your there buddy? Do we, as a society, completely excuse any contingent of " personal responsibilty" for one's actions and choices. So, making people work or do community service, or get a GED, or enter an educational path constitute "brutality"?