By: Mariah Craven

Mariah Craven
Mon, 26 Nov 2012 14:49:45 +0000

In reply to Elizabeth.

Elizabeth, thank you for reading and for your comments. No matter how you choose to interpret my statements, my overall point still stands – the benefits of SNAP far outweigh the perceived deficiencies of the system. You may not like the “entitled” beneficiaries or what some of them do with their benefits, but without SNAP, millions of Americans would be hungry and/or mired deeper in poverty. It seems detrimental to families for people to attack the system because they believe that some of the points listed in the post are true. That energy would be better spent fighting fraud, ensuring that everyone has access to affordable, healthy food, or pushing for higher wages so that working families can afford groceries. If you’d like to help, you can start by going to frac.org to learn more about hunger.