Government To Reduce Food Stamp Allowance Of Overweight Recipients
Â The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which Americans commonly refer to as the âFood Stamp Programâ, has voted to reduce the monthly allowance of obese welfare recipients, according to body weight according to SNAP spokesperson Winston C. Douglas in an announcement earlier today.Douglas said that after a vote was brought to the SNAP board of directors, that the group voted unanimously in support of the proposed measure in an attempt to fight obesity in the United States.âAn alarming statistic was brought to the board which stated that over fifty-percent of SNAP benefit recipients are grossly overweight, many of which are clinically considered obese. This, of course is major cause for concern with how the program is operatedâ Douglas said.All SNAP recipients, including all who live in the household, will be ordered to take a physical as part of the new plan. Depending on results, funding could be drastically reduced for those who are overweight. A measure many suggest is long overdue, including New Jersey governor Chris Christie.âI have to work in order to overeat,â the hefty governor said when asked about the new measure. âItâs a problem when the government is giving people money to sit on their lazy butts and just eat all day. It is about time something is done about this plague of people abusing the accessibility of welfare benefits.âThere are also those who think it is highly inappropriate to require welfare recipients to take a physical in order to receive their monthly allowance, such as Shantae Johnson, 32, of Cleveland, Ohio.âWho the hell they think they are? Just because we poor means we canât be fat? I think itâs wrong, and we deserve to get what is owed to us no matter how we look! People pay taxes for us to have that money to get whatever food we damn well please,â Johnson said angrily. âThis is an outrage and we not gonna put up with the harassment! I donât see them harassing rich people who are fat!â