0.) the republicans don't have the stones
1.) it would be vetoed
2.) every single person "cut off" would riot immediately.
That said, the amount of waste, abuse and fraud in the food stamp system is breathtaking. There are online exchanges to trade EBT balances for $0.50 on the dollar.
The government now is trying to get as many people sucking its tit as possible.
It's all about mind control!
" Welfare-ism, socialism, totalitarianism, etc. represent attempts, in varying degrees of rationality and hysteria, to re-create the tribal bond by making the State stand-in for the gene-pool. Conservatives who claim that no form of Welfare is tolerable to them are asking that people live with total bio-survival anxiety and combined with terror. The conservatives, of course, vaguely recognize this and ask for "local charity" to replace State they ask for the gene-pool to be restored by magic, among people (denizens of a typical city) who are not genetically related at all.
On the other hand, the State is not a gene-pool or a tribe, and cannot really play the bio-survival unit convincingly. Everybody on Welfare becomes paranoid, because they are continually worrying that they are going to get cut off ("exiled") for some minor infraction of the increasingly incomprehensible bureaucratic rules. And in real totalitarianism, in which the bogus identification of the State with the tribe is carried to the point of a new mysticism,
the paranoia becomes total. " - Prometheus Rising
