Why an Obama Presidency is so important: The poor pay more for Necessities

[Avinash_Tyagi]

mrstickball said:

Avinash_Tyagi said:

mrstickball said:
I can only wonder how much food could be provide for needy people if the government handed over 100% of Food Stamp money to charities.

Not everyone who needs foodstamps would be helped by charities

Could you equivocate on why people who need foodstamps wouldn't get helped by charities? I worked at a food bank for 3 years solid, and never saw one of the thousands of people that came, be turned away.

Biggest reason is of course location, there are far more grocery stores in most areas than food banks, pantries and chartity food distributers.

 

In addition food banks are poor determiners of what a person needs nutritionally, food banks primarily obtain surplus and donated food and distribute them to food pnatries soup kitchens and other food distribution charities, these are intended to supplement the inaddequacies in the food stamp program, but overall the best person to determine their own needs is the person who consumes, this is why food stamps should go to individals and families, not food banks and charities