Food Stamp Changes

I have a question to the US system, why are we dependant on you? Just looking at the food stamp recipient’s number, 46,000,000 plus people get these services for the 35th straight month. 46 million people rely on the government for food, and despite decreases, it has increased based on 6,1, 2014. With shutdowns and sequesters in this nation, its about time we handled our business better. If you don’t believe my fact, check out this graph by cns news.









There you go, there is the chart, and as you see since late 2011, we have stayed with 46 million and more on food stamps for food. Now, some really need help, and others just ride the system. How much more facts and information are needed to show we really need help. Now, lets look at some ideas.





1st. Giving people the ability to produce some produce for themselves. Giving seeds and planting materials to produce plants like tomatoes, corn, and squash.



2nd. Community gardens and wells, to both grow food, and provide fresh water to fuel the gardens.



Now, it’s true that, every place can’t have a garden like this. For instance lower class apartments with no available ground, yet for areas that do have these resources, we need to use them. Mainly to produce local food, and if there is surplus, things they can sell to another community, creating a local minor economy.



Now, for areas with no useable land, or water sources, its 3 ideas that could be used.



3rd. A economic system with produce as a main trade between communities, and instead of funding food stamps, we fund the areas that produce, and provide transport for their goods.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">4th. Store Voucher systems, having set item lists so families get access to good, healthy foods for themselves and their families.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">5th. A remake of the food stamp system.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">I want to make a local economy that can produce for it self, it raise gdp and cut dependency on other areas to run a full sector of the economy. This way communities get food, people can work, and the national gdp is raised, everyone benefits just by a garden.