That proposal for Boxes of Crappy Processed Food doesn't include ANY funds for distributing the food

[pnwmom]

So the cost savings it suggests are completely fictional -- and this will be one more cost to burden states with.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/usda-proposes-replacing-food-stamps-delivery-service-increase/story?id=53051445

A memo on the "Harvest Box" program says it will be up to states to figure out how to distribute the boxes through existing partnerships or "directly to residences through commercial and/or retail delivery sources." The budget proposal does not include any funding for distributing the boxes.

[Takket]

1. how can they possibly be this stupid??????????

The forgot to factor in SHIPPING??????????????

[pnwmom]

2. They didn't FORGET. They're assuming we're too stupid to notice. n/t

[dchill]

3. Recipients could just go to Mar a Lago and pick it up!

Distribution problem solved!

[elleng]

4. that's right, they expect the STATES to distribute it!

[Dorian Gray]

5. This thing isn't a pipe dream?

They're actually considering it????

[trixie2]

6. Canned food? Shudders!

I don't even own a can opener.

[sprinkleeninow]

9. Speaking of cans...

It's revolting and loathesome what is proposed for these.

The denouement to this should be for *****'s fat can be chastised, according to The Word that they ignore/conveniently pass over.

I am not in the best of moods.

[bdamomma]

7. I think Randi Rhodes was

talking about this today. I can imagine what they are putting in those boxes, giving out scraps to the people. Go ahead and enjoy that delicious chocolate cake, karma is beetch.

[left-of-center2012]

8. In the 1950's "surplus food" program

Eligible folks had to go to a central location, stand in line, and get a box with bags of rice, beans, flour, etc.
If you had no ride, you begged one, or went without.

[tonyt53]

10. I think most on here are too young to have any idea what you are talking about.

Damn good cheese though!

[left-of-center2012]

12. Yes ...

Anything before the McKinley administration is lost on these younger folk.

[dsc]

17. Under Reagan we had the cheese

which was very good. Any one who was elderly was entitled to get the cheese. My grandfather would get the cheese which he couldn't eat so he would give it to us.

[lunasun]

11. I am thinking Walmart Or they drop this in the town square and people bring buckets

?ops=scalefit_720_noupscale

And that may be all folks !!!! Disgusting but possible look what they distributed in Puerto Rico

Ill take the old fruits and squash over the crummy stuff FEMA gave in PR

[Wellstone ruled]

13. Oh boy,guess what.

This is not the first time this bullshit was proposed. During the Reagan nightmare,a similar idea was floated were by the Churches would be given Surplus Commodities and other Food Stuffs would be distributed to the "poor" based on a Voucher type system.

This Bullshit from Trump is another idea of some Racist Bigoted GOP think group.

[trixie2]

14. Ah the Reagan administration that declared ketchup a vegetable

[Wellstone ruled]

15. Oh the ugly memories.

[left-of-center2012]

16. Might Trump offer us Big Macs and KFC?