Replacing SNAP with something better

Let's use this moment for something big and good

If you ask me to name the most destructive government programs, at the top of my list would be the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly Food Stamps. While SNAP provides aid (we are told about $188 per person per month) to help put food on the table for 42 million Americans, it (perhaps inadvertently) also erodes our humanity by shifting responsibility for the needy away from individuals, churches, community, and businesses, and puts this in the hands of impersonal government systems, bureaucrats, and politicians.

In other words, we’ve outsourced our compassion, the thing that makes us the most human. This often deprives us of personal fulfillment that we otherwise would get from helping others, and it takes from the needy the human connection they need as much they need money for food.

Word from the federal Department of Agriculture suggests that the ongoing government shutdown will halt November SNAP benefits for the 1 in 8 Americans that depend on the program…