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From Newsweek, SNAP benefits update. Emergency declared as funding runs out. Oh boy. Who’s who’s doing New York? Governor Kathy Hokll declared a state of emergency on Thursday after federal funding shortfalls threatened. Snap. Hokll posted on an act. The Trump administration would rather starve children and families than lift a finger to help them put food on the table. I’m declaring a state of emergency to use every tool we have to help the 3 million New Yorkers losing food assistance because of the GOP shutdown. But wait, Maryland has declared a state of emergency. Uh, what do they say? Uh, Bethesda has no, you can shut up. Maryland Governor Wesmore declared a state of emergency on Thursday over the upcoming loss of SNAP benefits. Quote, Donald Trump is refusing to deploy emergency federal funds funding that would keep food assistance programs running during the shutdown. By doing that, I want to be clear, he is breaking the law. And then Delaware did it. Delaware governor declare stated, “Okay, we get the point. They’re all starting to declare emergencies over SNAP because large portions of our society are dependent upon the government for their very existence. And I do not view this as sustainable, nor do I view this as Donald Trump’s fault. I was talking with uh Senator Ran Paul earlier and he was pointing out that Democrats are the ones who are blocking this. They could vote for it at any point. And the important distinction here which Rand Paul brought up, this is a continuing resolution from the Biden budget. It is exactly what Biden had already approved and Democrats were for it then and now are acting like they can’t sign it now. So I want to ask you, you mentioned you do farm work or you have a farm. Yeah. is that so we’ve been talking about this about the fact that SNAP obviously affects the price of food and grocery stores have very thin profit margins and so it’s difficult to work out exactly how this is going to affect the economy and food markets overall I’m curious if you have any particular insight into that as someone who is a farmer and has experience with agriculture well SNAP is a evolution it was the food stamps weren’t SNAP they weren’t called SNAP they’re now called SNAP originally it was a supplement I think It actually I think supplement might be the first uh supplemental nutrition. There you go. That’s right. It was vegetables, fruit, uh nuts. It was things that were natural and organic. And so they would send it to grocery stores and then you could turn in your SNAP coupons at grocery stores. Now it’s part of EBT, which is the the electronic benefit, which is how they just deposit money into your account. And so SNAP has to go from a farm to be packed and washed and sent to a grocery store. And by the time it gets there, it’s really not so focused on just really good nutrient nutri high nutrient food. Yeah. You you can use uh EBT cards to purchase candy bars. Exactly. People are buying prepared food and then selling it in plates on Facebook Marketplace to other people in the hood on an upcharge. So they’re literally making a profit off of their SNAP benefits. You know about this? I mean there’s been a long history of that. There’s been a long history of, you know, kind of brutalizing the the kind the food stamp business and people have been selling their food stamps for decades. The the sad part is is that, you know, really the SNAP program needs to be standalone. That’s what kind of I think Bobby Kennedy was working on through HHS was to have SNAP be sort of a program where it really was fruit, vegetables, nuts, things that are potatoes, and then it would go to fulfillment centers and then it would be, you know, last mile delivery. You could still buy it on coupons, but you’d actually get good food. you wouldn’t be able to go there and sell them and and convert. And I know that that’s not what this is about. This is simply about the fact that the government shut down. But at the end of the day, my farm stand, we are doing SNAP. And most of the people that I know in California that have independent farm stands and independent grocery, they’re doing SNAP. So I’m curious, do you know when this changed and why? When they decided to move away from giving people genuinely nutritious foods and started to allow them to basically purchase anything at a grocery store. I am not sure when it happened but it would be I would say in the last 15 years this whole thing has become so corrupt you know the amount of money that they’re fighting over is $187 billion. Well there are any restrictions on what you can buy with snap. Sure there are but they hot the grocery store is not going to no hot things. Yeah. Okay. Imagine if you get groceries and they go bad. You’re not gonna you’re gonna give the stamps back. You know you just give somebody something else. Mhm. It’s all about farm to table has to be, you know, two-hand touch. It can’t sit for weeks and weeks and weeks. It’s very difficult to deliver fresh food on this kind of a program. It is. I I think um probably the large corporations lobbying the the uh to to change the system to allow people to buy whatever they want because uh soft drinks are two of the top 10 two of the top 10 uh items purchased with food stamps and it’s it’s so much profit, right? And they’re they’re saying Walmart’s going to lose billions of dollars. So these big corporations have been subsidizing themselves off of taxpayer dollars. It’s laughably insane. And it’s not just that. Uh there’s this old documentary from like 15 20 years ago talking about how Walmart and maybe this is wrong or whatever, but I saw this in some documentary. Walmart would tell staff if you can’t afford to work here because you don’t make enough money, apply for welfare on top of your your pay to supplement to offset. And not right. So the argument for a long time has been that Walmart subsidizes themselves through making their workers take benefits and then having people use benefits to buy from Walmart. Well, and it’s funny because left-wing people will try to use that as an argument for why we shouldn’t cut EBT. Like that you think that’s a good argument. Like I’m supposed to want to prop Walmart up with tax dollars. I mean, I don’t think the majority of the right is even advocating for SNAP to be abolished. I’m just saying that we need to root out the corruption. A lot of the people who actually need it and would be more deserving of it. Hardworking people who are married um don’t qualify because they make responsible decisions and So many people who don’t need it are getting it. I like that. In order to receive the benefits, you have to be married for at least a certain amount of time and you can’t be you can’t get a divorce. That’s a huge reason why people are applying for it and getting denied is because they’re married. I think people that are single need a lot of people talking about this on Twitter saying like, “I’m married. My husband makes, you know, whatever less than 40k, less than 30k a year, and they’ve applied for SNAP before and got denied.” And they wonder why. And people say, “It’s because you’re married. you’re more likely to get it. You’re more likely to get approved for all sorts of benefits if you’re unmarried and that’s incentivizing your responsibility. Yeah. And I I understand what you’re saying, by the way, that there are single mothers, for example, who might need this. But part of the difficulty is the program ends up creating an incentive that pushes fathers out of the homes. And so you go, how how is there a way to structure this where we ensure that people who really do need it are getting it, but where it’s not creating these broken homes? Because and there are also instances, this is going to not to shock and scandalize anyone in this audience, right? I’m sure you guys have never heard of this, but there are people who will live together outside of marriage and they could get married, but one of the reasons they don’t is because if they do, the woman will not be able to continue to collect the welfare that she’s getting. People are lying about the members of their household in order to get accepted for these applications. Yep. And you know what? The only reason why there should be a state of emergency declared in any of these states is because people are openly threatening to riot and loot stores on TikTok with their whole face showing their whole government name on their profile. Well, yep. Wait a second. The thing the thing is you guys know the story of perverse incentive where it was like the British colonials in India said, “We got we got a we got a snake problem. So, we’re going to pay you, you know, a dollar for every snake head you bring us.” And they went, “Okay.” They went home and started breeding snakes. Mhm. So they they thought they were going to get rid of him and they just made the problem worse. And that’s exactly what we get with this program. Although it’s not funny. Yeah, it’s very No, I agree with you. It’s very sad. Part of the the interesting thing about that particular story is you got to remember this is this was the British in India. So there’s not going to be the same level of solidarity built up between the government and the people there. And the same thing actually happens with the federal government. When this stuff is handled by local communities, people who know each other are feeding their neighbors. It’s a completely different story. you’re more discerning about who gets the food. People who have a reputation for being liars or being hustlers or being scammers or grifters are going to be uh weeded out just by virtue of what their reputation is. But because we federalized all of this, it makes it nearly impossible to figure out who the liars are, who the phonies are. One of the big parts of EBT um was during the mass immigration into the United States, the EBT tax uh coupon things that they gave them were in the thousands. So people had money in a bank account to go to grocery stores. I I’ve read several articles on, you know, the amount of EBT that was handed out to people coming over the border. I mean, that’s and that’s what the big argument is with the Trump administration is basically that we can’t afford illegal alien uh SNAP programs. We can’t afford uh medical uh for illegal aliens. That’s really what the big argument is. That’s what they’re really fighting about. The real issue for me is that you can’t get fresh food across the country. And so it becomes corrupt just because it costs too much. It’s never going to be fresh, so we might as well sell cigarettes and beer and we’ll just use the snap coupons for that. That’s kind of really what what’s going on. And $187 billion of that is crazy. Yeah. No, I I completely agree with you. It’s also it’s interesting because what the left has been doing is they’ve been going oh well actually uh illegal aliens are not getting these benefits. It’s like, okay, non-citizens absolutely are, though. And what happens is because the Biden administration and basically every leftwing administration or political authority for the past several decades has given people temporary protected status whenever they can, thus making them non- illegal even though they’re not citizens. It extends uh welfare benefits to those people. They they call them I think uh lawful entrance. Exactly. So they enter the country illegally and then when law enforcement CBP or I say you stop right there, they go asylum and then they’re like they got us. Yeah. I guess we can’t deport them now. They’re a lawful entrance. All this EVT I need to spend. Exactly. They said the magic word. What? Even though there’s a 8 USC 1325 which states entering the country from anywhere other than an official port of entry is illegal. Illegal. So uh the reality is we’ve said it the these people these Democrats live in an entirely different country. The the laws of our Congress and constit and constitution it doesn’t matter to them. They they are they are somewhere else. Yeah, that’s Well, in LA, we don’t have to worry because they haven’t funded Prop 36. So, if you don’t have any food, you can just go into the grocery store and take it, so it’s fine. Well, that’s what like $900 worth of theft or something. Yeah. That’s so crazy. 70 71% or something like that voted for this law to be passed and now they won’t fund it. Yeah. What’s the law? Uh Prop 36. So, right now, because of COVID, they they were like, you know, people can steal and we’re not going to prosecute. And it was up to $900. Literally, a guy went into a thrifty and took $2,000 worth of stuff because it was 50% off. Okay, that’s so funny. It’s awful, but it’s funny. Well, so the the joke that we made was you should sell everything for $1,000, everything, and then offer up discounts at the register. And someone actually did it. That would be That’s a great idea. It didn’t work. You should have made that work. No, that’s a great idea. Yeah, they they they tried doing I can’t remember where, but the police were just like, “No, you just change it from the dollar store to the thousand store.” Yeah. The issue is it’s not it does it doesn’t matter if this law exists $900. What matters is if somebody steals even a couple hundred, they shoplift. If you work for a CVS and someone comes in and takes a $100 worth of stuff and you call the police, they’re going to be like, “What would you have us do?” It’s going to take us 15, 20 minutes to get there. The person’s going to be long gone. We take a report. No one will ever catch the person, so they just don’t care. They don’t show up. We did, so back when this first became law that you could steal less than $900 worth of stuff in in California, we did a cartoon where it was Gavin Newsome and he’s like one of those crazy TV salesmen. 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