SNAP to it! - My Modest Proposal

I went home last Friday to visit my parents back home.
I haven’t seen them since Christmas break and it was almost halfway through the month of February.
After getting home and doing an initial greeting with my parents, I sat down with my father and started to tell him about our class and what our topic is.
I told him how we went to Kalamazoo Loaves and Fishes and learned that so many people, roughly 130,000, relied on Loaves and Fishes to provide meals for them and I mentioned how awful it was that the government made huge cuts to SNAP benefits this year.

My Dad is always on top of finances. He said, while Kalamazoo Loaves and Fishes are doing a great thing by providing for over 130,000 people in the county, he pointed out to me that maybe not everyone needed food assistance. Maybe we didn’t consider the possibility of people abusing the system in order to get free food…

We then discussed how that possibility was similar to the government’s justification of cutting SNAP benefits. Maybe people who claim they need assistance are abusing that system also… and as a result of that, the government just said, “Sorry, too many people are sucking us dry and we need to cut back on money.”

Which brings me to my modest proposal:

We should cut all benefits to every assistance program in the United States. That includes: SNAP, Medicare, Medicaid, etc. Way too many people are abusing the system and the government just can’t afford to foot their bill any longer.
As terrible as it sounds, I think it’s the only way to see our state and our country to get back on the right track.

Just think of all the money us citizens will be saving, we’d have more money for our families, for ourselves, we wouldn’t have to work long hours. People will finally get a break from their stressful lives!

…If there’s anyone still alive.