It is definitely awesome that kids go hungry so we prove a point about responsibility to their insufficiently grateful parents.
IMO not enough people seem to care at all about the children in these discussions. I've said it before I don't mind losing some efficiency in the process if it results in more balanced meals for families.
That’s the problem so many people are overlooking that Trump is trying to address. Posters like Sys are good for popping in occasionally to espouse economic truisms about the superior efficiency of cash that completely misses the point: welfare is about providing assistance to the truly needy - and sometimes that isn’t so “efficient.”
People are spending their food stamps on unhealthy crap, and at much more expensive locations (convenience stores). Some of that can be fixed by tightening restrictions on the use of food stamps. But it doesn’t address people selling/bartering their food stamps for pennies on the dollar to buy booze, cigs, sex, drugs, etc. In all these cases, the kids suffer.
This is why there are noble charities that I support that send home backpacks full of
nutritious food with children. The government scaling back food stamps and instead increasing their partnership with these charities is a wonderful idea.