Isn’t the point of SNAP to help people? If they need help with their bills, enough to need SNAP, who cares if they use it on beer once in a while. Nobody bats an eye at me for buying beer on the weekend, but suddenly if you receive SNAP assistance its an unholy sin to want to unwind after a long week? That doesn’t jive with me.
The name of the program is called Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Alcohol isn’t needed for survival and is therefore outside the scope of that program. I’m actually quite surprised some states allow it to be used for booze.
I don’t necessarily disagree with you, fwiw, just pointing out why most states don’t allow it to be used for that.
It’s the puritanical Christianity (no alcohol ever - there’s a lot of people who want to go back to a more strict and all encompassing form of Prohibition) mixing with prosperity gospel Christianity (you can’t be poor if God is happy with you, and poor people must be sinning or somehow wrong with God).
If you need help covering your basic food intake, it’s a poor choice to spend it on a “luxury”. Or if you can afford to waste money on a luxury, you clearly don’t need help with your basic food intake take.
Yeah that ignores that people aren’t machines, but there’s a logic to it, ven without blaming it on puritanism
You’re forgetting that alcohol is also a vice. It’s a known variable that even in times of strife and uncertainty, vice still sells — if not more so. They’re commenting on the embedded messaging of too-poor-to-deserve-it that fosters divisiveness among us poors.
Right I was trying to get that across. Their logic is why should you waste my money on something not required to live. But the answer is because I’m human.
Isn’t the point of SNAP to help people? If they need help with their bills, enough to need SNAP, who cares if they use it on beer once in a while. Nobody bats an eye at me for buying beer on the weekend, but suddenly if you receive SNAP assistance its an unholy sin to want to unwind after a long week? That doesn’t jive with me.
The name of the program is called Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Alcohol isn’t needed for survival and is therefore outside the scope of that program. I’m actually quite surprised some states allow it to be used for booze.
I don’t necessarily disagree with you, fwiw, just pointing out why most states don’t allow it to be used for that.
It’s the puritanical Christianity (no alcohol ever - there’s a lot of people who want to go back to a more strict and all encompassing form of Prohibition) mixing with prosperity gospel Christianity (you can’t be poor if God is happy with you, and poor people must be sinning or somehow wrong with God).
I doubt the issue would be a “once in a while” situation.
Ah, so if you receive SNAP and drink, you must be an alcoholic? Cause if you only drank socially, you wouldn’t be poor?
If you need help covering your basic food intake, it’s a poor choice to spend it on a “luxury”. Or if you can afford to waste money on a luxury, you clearly don’t need help with your basic food intake take.
Yeah that ignores that people aren’t machines, but there’s a logic to it, ven without blaming it on puritanism
You’re forgetting that alcohol is also a vice. It’s a known variable that even in times of strife and uncertainty, vice still sells — if not more so. They’re commenting on the embedded messaging of too-poor-to-deserve-it that fosters divisiveness among us poors.
Right I was trying to get that across. Their logic is why should you waste my money on something not required to live. But the answer is because I’m human.
Apologies, I misread the first bit as a statement not a quote. We’re on the same page.