I know someone who receives SNAP, and they have a job.  It's a part time job, because it's the only thing they can find.  (And it's not a stable job, because they could lose it at any time).  They're also partially disabled (they can't stand for long periods of time) due to a surgery they had to have.  


I know another person who tried to get SNAP, but couldn't because they made too much money.  (she needed assistance, because she was trying to pay her way through college, as well as her rent and other bills.  Thankfully she was able to find some assistance to pay for college that she doesn't have to pay back, though it's only $1000/semester.  Which sounds like a lot until you realize the cost of college.  She gets it because her father was killed in action, though it's not through the government)

 

It's easy to show the people who abuse the system.  They're most certainly out there.  It's unfortunate, but it's going to happen no matter what you do.  I don't think that Surfer Represents SNAP or welfare recipients.  We know there are people out there who just want to leech off of others.  But they're going to find a way to do it.  And anything done to try to prevent the fraud will either fail (they tried to prosecute the surfer guy btw, they weren't able to) or just make it harder for the people who are honest to get help they need, while only making it a little harder for the lazy.  

 

Bill Gates once said "I choose a lazy person to do a hard job, because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it."  That goes for welfare too.  They'll figure a way around any provisions made to keep them out, because they'd rather do that than work.  

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